Reason Quotes

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.

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.

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?

One reason I left local news was that I was tired of the constant musical chairs among news directors.

Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things.

The reason the Jews hate Nazis is primarily because they didn't come up with the idea first.

In history, the moments during which reason and reconciliation prevail are short and fleeting.

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.

The reason I never give up hope is because everything is so basically hopeless.

I think England has served me very well. I like living in London for the reasons I gave. I have absolutely no intentions of cutting those ties. There is absolutely no reason to do so. Certainly not, so that I can have a swimming pool and a palm tree.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Let's look at people as artists and try to support them; just because Picasso painted a couple of bad paintings, that's no reason to say he's a lousy painter.

I just want to make stories. They don't have to have a moral or a reason. There might be some mild cautionary notes, but they're not moral. They don't impart any Judeo-Christian ethic of any kind.

Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance.

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

Do something everyday for no other reason than you would rather not do it, so that when the hour of dire need draws nigh, it may find you not unnerved and untrained to stand the test.

Content is often the reason users come to your site.

Whatsoever is contrary to nature is contrary to reason, and whatsoever is contrary to reason is absurd.

Discretion is the perfection of reason, and a guide to us in all the duties of life.