Reason famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.
-- A. C. Benson -
Still, not much of a reason to live, is it? The fear of being punished for killing yourself.
-- A. J. Hartley -
Religions are many, reason is one, we are all brothers.
-- A.J. Cronin -
There are lots of reasons why a woman stays with a man, even when she's given up on changing him and can predict with certainty the shape that the rest of her life with him is going to take.
-- A.S.A. Harrison -
There are different reasons to make movies.
-- Aaron Eckhart -
I think things happened the way they did for a reason
-- Aaron Neville -
Having you close like this makes me forget the reasons why this won’t work. We will never work.
-- Abbi Glines -
The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.
-- Abbie Hoffman -
Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without reason.
-- Abhishek Bachchan -
Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?
-- Abraham Cowley -
The working men are the basis of all governments, for the plain reason that they are the most numerous...
-- Abraham Lincoln -
The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.
-- Adam Carolla -
When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.
-- Adam Clymer -
I immediately said yes for one reason and one reason only….Netflix rhymes with Wet Chicks,
-- Adam Sandler -
The head of every family will be what Abraham was, the patriarch, the priest and the unlettered lord of his family, and Reason will be the code of laws to all mankind.
-- Adam Weishaupt -
A true disciple inquires not whether a fact is agreeable to his own reason.His pride has yielded to the divine testimony.
-- Adoniram Judson -
Just as we are often moved to merriment for no other reason than that the occasion calls for seriousness, so we are correspondingly serious when invited too freely to be amused.
-- Agnes Repplier -
But I see no reason why a woman should not grow and develop in all those outlets which are suited to her nature, it matters not at all what they may be.
-- Agnes Smedley -
Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.
-- Ahmed Chalabi -
I don't know all the reasons for these achievements, but I know that I love what I do and I have never wanted to rest on my laurels.
-- Ahmed H. Zewail -
Reason, I sacrifice you to the evening breeze.
-- Aime Cesaire -
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
-- Al Capp -
The only reason that Jews are in ***** is that we think that Christ sucks. Catholicism sucks.
-- Al Goldstein -
For me an unfavorable initial reaction happens fairly often. For some reason the more time that elapses after the film opens, the more favorable the reviews become.
-- Alain Resnais -
If a scene is longer than three pages, it better be for a good reason.
-- Alan Ball -
Sometimes when things seem to be going wrong, they are going right for reasons you are yet to understand.
-- Alan Cohen -
That is one of the reasons I oppose this whole Affirmative Action business. We are not supposed to be judged based on what our ancestors did or suffered. We are supposed to be judged as individuals, based on what we are able to achieve.
-- Alan Keyes -
Coaches will do what they can but it doesn't necessarily bother me. You are an international referee for a reason. If things like that are going to ruffle your feathers, don't bother doing the job.
-- Alan Lewis -
Personally I am very much against the death penalty for several reasons.
-- Alan Parker -
There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.
-- Alastair Campbell -
The absurd is lucid reason noting its limits.
-- Albert Camus -
There are always reasons for murdering a man. But there is no justification for his existence.
-- Albert Camus -
Our reason has driven all away. Alone at last, we end up ruling over a desert.
-- Albert Camus -
What is called a reason for living is also an excellent reason for dying.
-- Albert Camus -
Curiosity has its own reason for existence.
-- Albert Einstein -
The primary reason for a tariff is that it enables the exploitation of the domestic consumer by a process indistinguishable from sheer robbery.
-- Albert J. Nock -
Allied air power was the greatest single reason for the German defeat.
-- Albert Kesselring -
The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.
-- Aldous Huxley -
One of the reasons there are so many terms for conditions of ice is that the mariners observing it were often trapped in it, and had nothing to do except look at it.
-- Alec Wilkinson -
I've got a temper if I need it. Nothing wrong with losing your temper, if it's for the right reasons.
-- Alex Ferguson -
Not everything happens for a reason. Sometimes life just sucks.
-- Alexa Chung -
And when reality goes, sanity has no reason.
-- Alexander Gordon Smith -
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.
-- Alexander Hamilton -
False gods must be repudiated, but that is not all: The reasons for their existence must be sought beneath their masks.
-- Alexander Herzen -
There is no reason why I should call myself a democrat.
-- Alexander Lebed -
Reason, however able, cool at best, Cares not for service, or but serves when prest, Stays till we call, and then not often near.
-- Alexander Pope -
Whether with Reason, or with Instinct blest, Know, all enjoy that pow'r which suits them best.
-- Alexander Pope -
Say first, of god above or man below; what can we reason but from what we know.
-- Alexander Pope -
If you but knew the flames that burn in me which I attempt to beat down with my reason.
-- Alexander Pushkin -
And if things always stayed the same, Scarlett, what would be the reason for bothering to draw breath?
-- Alexandra Ripley -
The latest indication we have is that Amado is experiencing some delay in getting his visa. We understand that and we can accept that as a plausible reason for him not to be here.
-- Alexi Lalas -
I had always intended to make a living out of playing blues. But I never admitted it to myself. I don't suppose I could have given a logical reason for it ever becoming possible to do so.
-- Alexis Korner -
The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.
-- Alfonso Cuaron -
Ours not to reason why, ours but to do and die.
-- Alfred Lord Tennyson -
Kant's style is so heavy that after his pure reason, the reader longs for unreasonableness.
-- Alfred Nobel -
No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
Fertilization of the soul is the reason for the necessity of art.
-- Alfred North Whitehead -
I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year.
-- Alfred P. Sloan -
There was no reason for a revolution in Paraguay.
-- Alfredo Stroessner -
The head has its confines. The head’s got those all right, and the heart. The heart has its reasons.
-- Ali Smith -
Genuine feelings are never the product of conscious effort. They are quite simply there, and they are there for a very good reason, even if that reason is not always apparent.
-- Alice Miller -
For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.
-- Alison Bechdel -
The reason most preaching is ignored today is that it deserves to be.
-- Alistair Begg -
Faith is not something that goes against the evidence, it goes beyond it. The evidence is saying to us, 'There is another country. There is something beyond mere reason'.
-- Alister E. McGrath -
Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidiest and most pernicious illusion.
-- Allan Bloom -
The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.
-- Allan Bloom -
Reason transformed into prejudice is the worst form of prejudice, because reason is the only instrument for liberation from prejudice.
-- Allan Bloom -
Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.
-- Allan Kardec -
For me, my faith is the reason I run. I definitely feel I have this amazing gift that God has blessed me with, and it's all about using it to the best of my ability.
-- Allyson Felix -
When a dog is in your life, there is always a reason to laugh.
-- Alphonse de Lamartine -
Sometimes you feel bad about yourself when there's no reason to.
-- Alvin Ailey -
Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.
-- Alvin Plantinga -
I was always depressed growing up. There wasnt a reason for it, I just was. I was sad and morose. I cried a lot, I wrote a lot, and I read a lot; and that was how I dealt with it.
-- Amanda Hocking -
If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day - that's the most beautiful thing. I told my sister how much I loved her every day. That's the only reason I'm OK right now.
-- Amaury Nolasco -
Aubrey's voice when he answered was soft. "I'm one of the reasons they wouldn't dare.
-- Amelia Atwater-Rhodes -
When the remarkable becomes bizarre, reason turns rancid.
-- American McGee -
There is no season and no reason for love. Love is not seasonal its perennial.
-- Amit Abraham -
To reason with poorly chosen words is like using a pair of scales with inaccurate weights.
-- Andre Maurois -
I like going to Church for aesthetic reasons, rather than spiritual ones.
-- Andres Serrano -
There's a lot of ideology about "free", that we can have free services, free content, it's one of the reasons why the music industry which I defend has been decimated.
-- Andrew Keen -
The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.
-- Andrew Lloyd Webber -
If you get into multicultural sort of casting for no other reason than to diversify, then it seems false.
-- Andrew Rannells -
It stands to reason that unloved and unwanted children are going to get into crime.
-- Andrew Young -
My work comes first, reasons for it follow.
-- Andy Goldsworthy -
Fashion wasn't what you wore someplace anymore; it was the whole reason for going.
-- Andy Warhol -
Drosselmeier had unwittingly exposed himself to an overdose of reality, and it had destroyed his reason.
-- Angela Carter -
Always question your fear, Anh. there's almost never a good reason to be scared.
-- Anh Do -
It is best to marry for purely selfish reasons.
-- Anita Brookner -
I'm loved unconditionally, for no other reason than simply because I exist.
-- Anita Moorjani -
For some reason our lives were marked by summers. . . . Summer was the time when our lives joined completely, when we all had our birthdays, when really important things happened
-- Ann Brashares -
It was easy for me to leave acting for school, because I wasn't really in it as an adolescent for fulfilling reasons.
-- Anna Chlumsky -
Ignorant free speech often works against the speaker. That is one of several reasons why it must be given rein instead of suppressed.
-- Anna Quindlen -
So I think you have to marry for the right reasons, and marry the right person.
-- Anne Bancroft
