Reason Quotes

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

Deprived of meaningful work, men and women lose their reason for existence; they go stark, raving mad.

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.

The reason I went for Jenny Craig is I thought, Maybe I'm not the only one who has stupid reasons for getting fat.

Like a morning dream, life becomes more and more bright the longer we live, and the reason of everything appears more clear. What has puzzled us before seems less mysterious, and the crooked paths look straighter as we approach the end.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

A lot of people into Tool, for some reason, are not interested in humor.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

There was splendid fighting on the part of the division on the 7th, 8th, 9th, and 10th. There was no faltering or hesitation. Each man went to work determined to carry anything in reason.

To give reason for fancy were to weigh the fire, and measure the wind.

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.

I don't know why I'm alive but I know there's a reason for it.

And so if your competitors aren't growing, if there isn't a competitive reason to grow, and you want focus and discipline to add customers to existing stores, you adjust your strategy.

There is, indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought of passing life with an amiable woman.

The only reason I ever played golf in the first place was so I could afford to hunt and fish.

All the actors I respect, especially old-Hollywood actors, the reason I think so many of them have had long careers is that there is a sort of mystery about them. You don't know what they do on Friday nights when they go home from work. You have no clue. You have this sort of fantasy about them.

The third group is focused on counterintelligence and security. I think the reason for that is fairly evident, in terms of vulnerabilities of the department and the harm that can come to it by failing to detect when we have, in fact, been harmed.

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.

The best reason why Monarchy is a strong government is, that it is an intelligible government. The mass of mankind understand it, and they hardly anywhere in the world understand any other.

He that speaketh against his own reason speaks against his own conscience, and therefore it is certain that no man serves God with a good conscience who serves him against his reason.

The only reason that it takes me seven years to do stuff is because I just don't really have a plan.

The true reason of Ms. Rice's attack against Russia is very simple. Condoleezza Rice is a very cruel, offended woman who lacks men's attention.

For, just as it has been said that there is no half-way house between Rome and Reason, so it may be said that there is no half-way house between State Socialism and Anarchism.

The reason that a good citizen does not use such destructive means to become wealthier is that, if everyone did so, we would all become poorer from the mutual destructiveness.