Reason Quotes

The only reason my work seems to be eclectic up to a certain period is because I was a failure as an actor.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in the way in which the man of practical wisdom would determine it.

One reason we resist making deliberate choices is that choice equals change and most of us, feeling the world is unpredictable enough, try to minimise the trauma of change in our personal lives.

The only reason I've shared my story is to take that tiny baby step of breaking down the stigma attached to depression.

There's no reason to change what you are, but if you're not being you, then you need to acknowledge that.

Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason.

That's part of the reason I called the album 'Shoot From The Hip.' I did feel it was time to open up more.

I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going.

One reason I'm such a wayward prognosticator of rightwing trends is that I'm incapable of blacking out enough neural sectors to see the world through reptilian-brained eyes, a prerequisite for any true channeling of the mean resentments and implanted fears that drive hardcore conservatives.

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

Reason is the enemy of faith.

I've never had a problem with nudity, but I don't put it out there without a reason.

I'm playing great music with great people and so there's no reason to stop.

Distrust all those who love you extremely upon a very slight acquaintance and without any visible reason.

Our cautious ancestors, when yawning, blocked the way to the entrance of evil spirits by putting their hands before their mouths. We find a reason for the gesture in the delicacy of manner which forbids an indecent exposure.

An omnipotent God is the only being with no reason to lie.

True, we love life, not because we are used to living, but because we are used to loving. There is always some madness in love, but there is also always some reason in madness.

I know that I can sing. That's the reason I started playing music when I was twelve years old.

It is right that he too should have his little chronicle, his memories, his reason, and be able to recognize the good in the bad, the bad in the worst, and so grow gently old down all the unchanging days, and die one day like any other day, only shorter.

You will suddenly realize that the reason you never changed before was because you didn't want to.

I feel like acting is something I've been working towards longer. And it would be great to win a Grammy, of course, but for some reason, an Oscar speaks more to me.

There is no good reason for our cattle producers to have such limited market access. Our beef is the best in the world, and we need to be allowed to reach global markets.

One reason people get divorced is that they run out of gift ideas.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

Personally, I'm an advocate for short engagements. Long sometimes means there is a reason for it. Two years engaged and no wedding... I'd be upset.

Out of 30 years of Second City I was probably the third African-American with the main stage cast. I was surprised when I first heard that. I think part of the reason that improvisation has never been popular with African-Americans is that it isn't popular in the inner cities.

You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.

We know that if memory is destroyed in one part of the brain, it can be sometimes re-created on a different part of the brain. And once we can unravel that amino chain of chemicals that is responsible for memory, I see no reason why we can't unlock it and, essentially, wipe out what's there.

Most men seem to live according to sense rather than reason.