Reason Quotes

A tragic irony of life is that we so often achieve success or financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has passed away.

I obsess everyday about everything. Not only about what we do well but what we can do better... In the end, the only reason I am motivated to do what I do is for the hedonistic pleasures of the table.

There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.

What I do now is all my dad's fault, because he bought me a guitar as a boy, for no apparent reason.

I don't think there is a good reason for an abortion, but Dr. Jasper made me really realize it was just a racket. He was just doing it for the money. He didn't care about the women.

If you can once engage people's pride, love, pity, ambition on your side, you need not fear what their reason can do against you.

The thing about playing gods, whether you're playing Thor and Loki or Greco Roman gods or Indian gods or characters in any mythology, the reason that gods were invented was because they were basically larger versions of ourselves.

It's true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose.

They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom.

The way to see by Faith is to shut the Eye of Reason.

I came all this way for a reason. Today is the day of salvation. Trust Jesus to save you. Then be sincere as God knows a pretender.

The skeptical community is absolutely near and dear to the 'Mythbusters' heart and there's no small reason that they've embraced us. That's our people. That's the way we like to think.

The fact that the climate is getting warmer doesn't scare me at all. There's no reason why one should be scared.

In today's society we sometimes forget to balance our hearts and our heads; this is the reason we stop laughing.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

I didn't do it because of the underlying greed that's prevailing, but it is about greed, doing the right thing at the right time using your clout when you have it and what for and what reason.

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.

I hate wasting time or money and that happens all the time for no good reason, and then people save money by skimping on the important things.

I suppose the reason I chose electrical engineering was because I had always been interested in electricity, involving myself in such projects as building radios from the time I was a child.

The reason that conservative talk radio works is because there is an audience for it.

Every part I've done has been for one reason or another-money, or the part, or the director, or the location. I'd like to get one thing that's all of those combined.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

I believe Johnson understood that the reason was Vietnam. I also believe that he felt that if there was a way to communicate the real issues in Vietnam, that the reasons would be answered or understood. But there was just no way to communicate.

Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.

Any person seasoned with a just sense of the imperfections of natural reason, will fly to revealed truth with the greatest avidity.

Many books require no thought from those who read them, and for a very simple reason; they made no such demand upon those who wrote them.

Intelligent life on a planet comes of age when it first works out the reason for its own existence.

When somebody gives up their friends and everything they do just to be with a person, they wake up miserable one day. They're denying themselves for no real reason other than they think that's the thing to do.

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

As a West Side kid fooling around with boxing gloves, I had been, for some reason of temperament, more interested in dodging a blow than in striking one.