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Reason Quotes


"ideas on a young musician. One of the reasons we're here is to be a part of..."

Full 'Dizzy Gillespie' Quote   Source: Dizzy Gillespie
"Quitters take bad breaks and use them as reasons to give up. It's all a..."

Full 'Nancy Lopez' Quote   Source: Nancy Lopez
"thinks with its sympathy, never with its reason."

Full 'William R. Alger' Quote   Source: William R. Alger
"up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it..."

Full 'Luigi Pirandello' Quote   Source: Luigi Pirandello
"government in his country. And for that reason no regime has ever loved..."

Full 'Alexander Solzhenitsyn' Quote   Source: Alexander Solzhenitsyn
"to be cheated into passion, but to be reasoned into truth."

Full 'John Dryden' Quote   Source: John Dryden
"A prince never lacks legitimate reasons to break his promise."

Full 'Niccolo Machiavelli' Quote   Source: Niccolo Machiavelli
"financial independence after the chief reason for which we sought it has..."

Full 'Ellen Glasgow' Quote   Source: Ellen Glasgow
"An appeal to the reason of the people has never been known to fail in the"

Full 'James Russell Lowell' Quote   Source: James Russell Lowell
"grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately...."

Full 'Saul Bellow' Quote   Source: Saul Bellow
"is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely...."

Full 'Samuel Taylor Coleridge' Quote   Source: Samuel Taylor Coleridge
"Art is right reason in the doing of work."

Full 'St Thomas Aquinas' Quote   Source: St Thomas Aquinas
"joke or epigram, than with any amount of reasoning...."

Full 'Charlotte Perkins Gilman' Quote   Source: Charlotte Perkins Gilman
"creatures, and cats like authors for the same reasons...."

Full 'Robertson Davies' Quote   Source: Robertson Davies
"Can the knowledge deriving from reason even begin to compare with knowledge"

Full 'Louis Aragon' Quote   Source: Louis Aragon
"complete negation of common sense and sound reason."

Full 'Mikhail Bakunin' Quote   Source: Mikhail Bakunin
"him, be with him, yet he will be the reason for you to Die.. The gift..."

Full 'Gul shah Begum Fawzia' Quote   Source: Gul shah Begum Fawzia
"Earnestness is enthusiasm tempered by reason."

Full 'Blaise Pascal' Quote   Source: Blaise Pascal
"tendencies subject to an upright and reasoning will, and you have done much..."

Full 'Benjamin Franklin' Quote   Source: Benjamin Franklin
"child passing through, never knowing the reason. I am home - I know the..."

Full 'Enya' Quote   Source: Enya
"Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of"

Full 'Jean Paul Sartre' Quote   Source: Jean Paul Sartre
"towards some unity of something for some reason, then you're just a total..."

Full 'Charles Manson' Quote   Source: Charles Manson
"person... They think I'm short, for some reason. And people think I'm shy..."

Full 'Mariah Carey' Quote   Source: Mariah Carey
"existence before the judgment seat of Reason, or give up existence."

Full 'Friedrich Engels' Quote   Source: Friedrich Engels
"Family makes me feel there?s a reason I?m alive? I?m feeling my life, which..."

Full 'Sean Penn' Quote   Source: Sean Penn
"Few women, I fear, have had such reason as I have to think the long sad..."

Full 'George Eliot' Quote   Source: George Eliot
"power is beyond doubt, but that is no reason to deny the discretion..."

Full 'Warren E. Burger' Quote   Source: Warren E. Burger
"For some strange reason I can put five bullets into that red thing in the"

Full 'Dr Ruth Westheimer' Quote   Source: Dr Ruth Westheimer
"Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is..."

Full 'George Washington' Quote   Source: George Washington
"Have a very good reason for everything you do."

Full 'Laurence Olivier' Quote   Source: Laurence Olivier
"He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare"

Full 'Andrew Carnegie' Quote   Source: Andrew Carnegie
"How different the reasoning is that men adopt when they are discussing the..."

Full 'Emmeline Pankhurst' Quote   Source: Emmeline Pankhurst
"Human reason needs only to will more strongly than fate, and she is fate."

Full 'Thomas Mann' Quote   Source: Thomas Mann
"am drive. I am. I'm driven, for some reason. But I don't know where I'm"

Full 'Courtney Love' Quote   Source: Courtney Love
"if I fail to make my own choices, the reason for my life will be missing. I..."

Full 'Liv Ullmann' Quote   Source: Liv Ullmann
"believe people are in our lives for a reason. We're here to learn from each"

Full 'Gillian Anderson' Quote   Source: Gillian Anderson
"I can name you a hundred intellectual reasons why I oppose the death..."

Full 'Steve Earle' Quote   Source: Steve Earle
"same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended..."

Full 'Galileo' Quote   Source: Galileo
"I had reasoned this out in my mind, there was one of two things I had a..."

Full 'Harriet Tubman' Quote   Source: Harriet Tubman
"I had to move to New York for health reasons. I'm very paranoid and New..."

Full 'Anita Wise' Quote   Source: Anita Wise
"and its effects - and that is just the reason why I never drink it."

Full 'Stonewall Jackson' Quote   Source: Stonewall Jackson
"enslaved by another man's. I will not reason and compare; my Business is to..."

Full 'William Blake' Quote   Source: William Blake
"I must have a reason for a certain hypothesis."

Full 'J August Strindberg' Quote   Source: J August Strindberg
"hit every game, but that's one of the reasons I've come a long way as a..."

Full 'Mark Mcgwire' Quote   Source: Mark Mcgwire
"as deep as one's love goes. I see no reason for painting but that. If I..."

Full 'Andrew Wyeth' Quote   Source: Andrew Wyeth
"I trust everyone until they give me a reason not to."

Full 'Sandra Bullock' Quote   Source: Sandra Bullock
"I want to be a reason for them to take some time off and start to think."

Full 'Marilyn Manson' Quote   Source: Marilyn Manson
"The primary thing is complexity. The reason I play so many dark characters..."

Full 'Billy Zane' Quote   Source: Billy Zane
"belongs to me. I write a book for no other reason than to add three or four..."

Full 'Jack London' Quote   Source: Jack London
"where neither virtue, nor strength, nor reason can prevail...."

Full 'Richard Quarles' Quote   Source: Richard Quarles
"they screamed all the time, for no good reason...."

Full 'Jack Handy' Quote   Source: Jack Handy
"because I think everything happens for a reason...."

Full 'Sandra Bullock' Quote   Source: Sandra Bullock
"same time, I think that's one of the reasons I'm successful. Because I..."

Full 'Michelle Pfeiffer' Quote   Source: Michelle Pfeiffer
"authority; in philosophy the predominance of reason...."

Full 'Johannes Kepler' Quote   Source: Johannes Kepler
"In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests -- who..."

Full 'Jean Giraudoux' Quote   Source: Jean Giraudoux
"when a commander becomes so bereft of reason and perspective that he fails..."

Full 'Douglas Macarthur' Quote   Source: Douglas Macarthur
"Insanity destroys reason, but not wit."

Full 'Nathaniel Emmons' Quote   Source: Nathaniel Emmons
"held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors."

Full 'Thomas Huxley' Quote   Source: Thomas Huxley
"It is not reason which makes faith hard, but life."

Full 'Jean Ingelow' Quote   Source: Jean Ingelow
"writer who seems never to quote, and the reason is that he is never really..."

Full 'Havelock Ellis' Quote   Source: Havelock Ellis
"people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think."

Full 'Eugene Ionesco' Quote   Source: Eugene Ionesco
"because the men I'm attracted to, for some reason, haven't gotten it..."

Full 'Jennifer Lopez' Quote   Source: Jennifer Lopez
"I've always needed to understand the reasons behind things. Anytime I ever..."

Full 'Merlin Olsen' Quote   Source: Merlin Olsen
"use of instinct who cannot make use of reason."

Full 'John Ray' Quote   Source: John Ray
"kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life...."

Full 'Eleanor Roosevelt' Quote   Source: Eleanor Roosevelt
"nature, is unworldly, and it is for this reason rather than its rarity that..."

Full 'Hannah Arendt' Quote   Source: Hannah Arendt
"Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith."

Full 'Leo Tolstoy' Quote   Source: Leo Tolstoy
"to light a fire and live with it. The reason? Because he alone has learned..."

Full 'Henry Vandyke' Quote   Source: Henry Vandyke
"often make up in wrath what they want in reason."

Full 'William R. Alger' Quote   Source: William R. Alger
"and highest interests are directed by reason throughout the course of life...."

Full 'Epicurus' Quote   Source: Epicurus
"better than poverty, if only for financial reasons."

Full 'Woody Allen' Quote   Source: Woody Allen
"My level of cynicism about the reasons that took us to war against Iraq..."

Full 'Ted Koppel' Quote   Source: Ted Koppel
"great poverty nor great riches will hear reason."

Full 'Henry Fielding' Quote   Source: Henry Fielding
"Never get angry. Never make a threat. Reason with People."

Full 'Mario Puzo' Quote   Source: Mario Puzo
"Never trust the man who hath reason to suspect that you know he hath"

Full 'Henry Fielding' Quote   Source: Henry Fielding
"contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense."

Full 'Voltaire' Quote   Source: Voltaire
"settled there really wasn't any good reason to refer to it...."

Full 'Amelia Earhart' Quote   Source: Amelia Earhart
"One of the reasons I go out of my way to be kind is that I've known what..."

Full 'Sandra Bullock' Quote   Source: Sandra Bullock
"One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less"

Full 'John Gardner' Quote   Source: John Gardner
"One reason sin flourishes is that it is treated like a cream puff instead"

Full 'Billy Sunday' Quote   Source: Billy Sunday
"America. We have the ability. There's no reason that people can't simply..."

Full 'Marilyn Manson' Quote   Source: Marilyn Manson
"it that it is not yet wholly guided by reason...."

Full 'Theodore Dreiser' Quote   Source: Theodore Dreiser
"Pain has its reasons, pleasure is totally indifferent."

Full 'Francis Picabia' Quote   Source: Francis Picabia
"willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons."

Full 'Bertrand Russell' Quote   Source: Bertrand Russell
"People go to church for the same reasons they go to a tavern: to stupefy..."

Full 'Mikhail Bakunin' Quote   Source: Mikhail Bakunin
"People marry for a variety of reasons and with varying results. But to..."

Full 'James Branch Cabell' Quote   Source: James Branch Cabell
"Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason."

Full 'Novalis' Quote   Source: Novalis
"he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded..."

Full 'Thomas Jefferson' Quote   Source: Thomas Jefferson
"Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as..."

Full 'D H Lawrence' Quote   Source: D H Lawrence
"Reason is man's instrument for arriving at the truth, intelligence is man's..."

Full 'Erich Fromm' Quote   Source: Erich Fromm
"Reason is the servant of instinct."

Full 'Clarence Day' Quote   Source: Clarence Day
"Reason may fail you. If you are going to do anything with life, you..."

Full 'Bede Jarrett' Quote   Source: Bede Jarrett
"Reason obeys itself; and ignorance submits to whatever is dictated to it."

Full 'Thomas Paine' Quote   Source: Thomas Paine
"Reason, Observation, and Experience -- the Holy Trinity of Science."

Full 'Robert Ingersoll' Quote   Source: Robert Ingersoll
"Right reason is stronger than force."

Full 'James Garfield' Quote   Source: James Garfield
"inarticulately abstracted for the same reason that midgets are good at..."

Full 'Clive James' Quote   Source: Clive James
"can’t keep their men. Both have a valid reason. The man is not willing to..."

Full 'Joseph Cubby' Quote   Source: Joseph Cubby
"less travelled is less travelled for a reason."

Full 'Seinfeld' Quote   Source: Seinfeld
"expression that needs to happen for a personal reason, and you don't have a..."

Full 'James Taylor' Quote   Source: James Taylor
"is is. Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?"

Full 'Artemus Ward' Quote   Source: Artemus Ward
"That's the reason they're called lessons, because they lesson from day to"

Full 'Lewis Carroll' Quote   Source: Lewis Carroll
"chastised and subdued by the highest reason...."

Full 'Charles Caleb Colton' Quote   Source: Charles Caleb Colton
"The heart has its reason which reason does not know."

Full 'Blaise Pascal' Quote   Source: Blaise Pascal
"The main reason I get up in the morning is not prayer or meditation, but"

Full 'Dalai Lama' Quote   Source: Dalai Lama
"you fall in love first and grope for reasons afterward...."

Full 'Shana Alexander' Quote   Source: Shana Alexander
"The only reason that cocaine is such a rage today is because people are too..."

Full 'Jack Nicholson' Quote   Source: Jack Nicholson
"The only reason why you're here sir is because YOU ARE A LOSER!"

Full 'Judge Judy' Quote   Source: Judge Judy
"rational society subverts the idea of Reason."

Full 'Herbert Marcuse' Quote   Source: Herbert Marcuse
"The reason a dog has so many friends is he wags his tail instead of his"

Full 'Steven Tyler' Quote   Source: Steven Tyler
"The reason I'm in this business, I assume all performers are - it's..."

Full 'Lenny Bruce' Quote   Source: Lenny Bruce
"The reason many people are lost in thought is because its unfamiliar"

Full 'Alfred E Newman' Quote   Source: Alfred E Newman
"The reason so many people showed up at his funeral was because they wanted"

Full 'Samuel Goldwyn' Quote   Source: Samuel Goldwyn
"The reason that fiction is more interesting than any other form of..."

Full 'Eleanor Roosevelt' Quote   Source: Eleanor Roosevelt
"The reason that the TEN COMMANDMENTS are short and clear is that they were..."

Full 'Dan Bennett' Quote   Source: Dan Bennett
"The reason the United States is the most violent country in the history of..."

Full 'Spike Lee' Quote   Source: Spike Lee
"The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can"

Full 'Walter Bagehot' Quote   Source: Walter Bagehot
"is that it's followed independently of reason."

Full 'Charles Darwin' Quote   Source: Charles Darwin
"web of domination has become the web of Reason itself, and this society is"

Full 'Herbert Marcuse' Quote   Source: Herbert Marcuse
"There are strange flowers of reason to match each error of the senses."

Full 'Louis Aragon' Quote   Source: Louis Aragon
"There are two reasons why I'm in show business, and I'm standing on both of"

Full 'Betty Grable' Quote   Source: Betty Grable
"in love. But there is also always some reason in madness."

Full 'Friedrich Nietzsche' Quote   Source: Friedrich Nietzsche
"There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience...."

Full 'Edward Abbey' Quote   Source: Edward Abbey
"indeed, nothing that so much seduces reason from vigilance, as the thought..."

Full 'Samuel Johnson' Quote   Source: Samuel Johnson
"There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as..."

Full 'Sean O'casey' Quote   Source: Sean O'casey
"work there is, which is the probable reason so few engage in it."

Full 'Henry Ford' Quote   Source: Henry Ford
"Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and..."

Full 'George Byron' Quote   Source: George Byron
"only beast that can write, he has small reason to be proud of it. When he..."

Full 'John Keats' Quote   Source: John Keats
"are and be real about it. That's the reason I'm still alive...."

Full 'Keith Richards' Quote   Source: Keith Richards
"Some people commit a crime for no other reason."

Full 'Gustav Flaubert' Quote   Source: Gustav Flaubert
"minority, whose objections are based not on reasoning but on doctrinaire..."

Full 'James D. Watson' Quote   Source: James D. Watson
"in at 10 o'clock?'... 'Well, the main reason, Johnny you have to be in at..."

Full 'Bobby Knight' Quote   Source: Bobby Knight
"General Kofi Annan says he can think of no reason to attack Iraq right now...."

Full 'Jay Leno' Quote   Source: Jay Leno
"We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse."

Full 'Rudyard Kipling' Quote   Source: Rudyard Kipling
"We know the truth, not only by the reason, but also by the heart."

Full 'Blaise Pascal' Quote   Source: Blaise Pascal
"the human mind exists in the light of reason and no more than reason, we..."

Full 'Loren Eiseley' Quote   Source: Loren Eiseley
"take a certain amount of abuse, and the reason you're willing to do that is..."

Full 'Grace Paley' Quote   Source: Grace Paley
"over that mountain, that's all the more reason to climb over that mountain...."

Full 'Kate Winslett' Quote   Source: Kate Winslett
"happen without you. You're the whole reason that this thing is even halfway..."

Full 'Eddie Vedder' Quote   Source: Eddie Vedder
"doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the..."

Full 'Francis Picabia' Quote   Source: Francis Picabia