Reason Quotes

No Man is richer for having his Estate all in Money, Plate, etc. lying by him, but on the contrary, he is for that reason the poorer.

The reason we wouldn't make a seven-inch tablet isn't because we don't want to hit a price point, it's because we don't think you can make a great tablet with a seven-inch screen.

After all the black man has been through in this world, he can still often reach levels of spirituality the most pampered white man cannot touch. Maybe what he's been through is the reason why.

The animals that depend on instinct have an inherent knowledge of the laws of economics and of how to apply them; Man, with his powers of reason, has reduced economics to the level of a farce which is at once funnier and more tragic than Tobacco Road.

Man is wise and constantly in quest of more wisdom; but the ultimate wisdom, which deals with beginnings, remains locked in a seed. There it lies, the simplest fact of the universe and at the same time the one which calls forth faith rather than reason.

No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too.

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.

For some reason, my whole life has been, 'You can't do this, you can't do that.'

Many people around the President have sizeable egos before entering government, some with good reason. Their new positions will do little to moderate their egos.

For some reason I get this key position of being one of two people that started the company that started the revolution.

The Bourbon King was first ambassador of reason and human happiness.

There are kids out there that are into Iron Maiden and others who are strictly into industrial music, but they come for the same reason; they all like us and they different things out of the band's music.

I had made a decision early on that we were going to do the right things and that if they worked we were going to be very successful. And if for some reason they didn't, all the claims and the protestations and the excuses wouldn't make any difference.

The only things that haven't worked for me are when I've held back. There's no reason to sell an idea short. The only risk would be to not fulfill the dream.

I think that Congress' ability to reason is fully equal to that of the judiciary.

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.

Reason and justice tell me there's more love for humanity in electricity and steam than in chastity and vegetarianism.

If forgers and malefactors are put to death by the secular power, there is much more reason for excommunicating and even putting to death one convicted of heresy.

I went to an ordinary school in New York City with no other actors. I learned to compartmentalise different parts of my life. I was one person at home and then another person at work and for that reason my career didn't challenge my family life.

Reason and love are sworn enemies.

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

Only reason can convince us of those three fundamental truths without a recognition of which there can be no effective liberty: that what we believe is not necessarily true; that what we like is not necessarily good; and that all questions are open.

Israel was seen as having demonstrated unmistakably it wanted peace, and the reason it wasn't available, achievable was because Arafat wouldn't accept it.

How well he's read, to reason against reading!

An objective truth and individual reason are feared above all.

I always say that things are meant to be and everything happens for a reason, so I don't have any regrets.

Cultural tourism surveys consistently rate San Francisco's art industry as a core reason for visiting.

Women are treated differently by society for exactly the same reason that children and the mentally handicapped are treated differently.

What should be the future of Israel? Is the land the most important choice, and for that reason to keep the whole of the land at any cost, or to have a partition and build the Jewish state on part of the land? And the other part?

The assumption is that the right kind of society is an organic being not merely analogous to an organic being, but actually a living structure with appetites and digestions, instincts and passions, intelligence and reason.