Reason Quotes

Treason doth never prosper, what's the reason? For if it prosper, none dare call it Treason.

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.

There is no reason why the women of the country should not greatly advance themselves.

The reason why the stone is red is its iron content, which is also why our blood is red.

Law is mind without reason.

I'm 47 years old. I couldn't compete with Beyonce. I'm not competing with anyone. I've already established myself as an artist. I've been in this business for 30 years. There's no reason for me to compete with anyone.

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.

My first two records are so simply constructed. The reason isn't because I wanted to make simple music. It's because I don't really have the chops.

The reason people like to watch ball games is because they don't really know exactly what's going to happen from moment to moment. That's why you watch the entire thing.

The reason the Romans built their great paved highways was because they had such inconvenient footwear.

The reason I used a name was because I was a nurse at the time, and I didn't want my name in Timeout and people from working coming along and taking the piss.

Our reason may prove what it will: our reason is only a feeble ray that has issued from Nature.

The rules of morality are not the conclusion of our reason.

The reason we're getting bombed is 'cause we were on one side, and we're gonna remain on that side. We can't waver because these are our enemies right now. I'm sorry. I'm gonna say it out loud. The Arabs, that's right, are our enemies. That's right.

The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work.

To hell with reality! I want to die in music, not in reason or in prose. People don't deserve the restraint we show by not going into delirium in front of them. To hell with them!

A crowd always thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason.

There's no reason you shouldn't, as a writer, not be aware of the necessity to revise yourself constantly.

If there be any plausible reason for supposing that we have the right to legislate on the slave interests of the District, you cannot put down the investigation of the subject out of doors, by refusing to receive petitions.

President Bush's proposal to focus our resources on sending humans to Mars is intriguing, but it is not the most compelling reason that Americans ought to focus our interest on the Red Planet.

When I started my own business, my main reason for designing clothes was that I wanted to dress rock stars and the people who went to rock concerts. It didn't go beyond that aspiration at that point.

Liking one person is an extra reason for liking another.

Example has more followers than reason. We unconsciously imitate what pleases us, and approximate to the characters we most admire.

It has always surprised me how little attention philosophers have paid to humor, since it is a more significant process of mind than reason. Reason can only sort out perceptions, but the humor process is involved in changing them.

The reason why the Son of God took upon him our nature, was, the fall of our first parents.

For the greater good, I thought I should be a spiritual leader for people for some reason.

Nobody likes to hear it, because it's dull, but the reason you win or lose is darn near always the same - pitching.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

The first and most important reason for its elimination is the unquestioned fact that evolution is not a science; it is a hypothesis only, a speculation.