Reason Quotes - page 16

For some reason, on that sparkling afternoon last week, I actually saw the coal that was passing by and it set me to thinking how important coal was to our everyday lives when I was a little boy. (Nick Clooney)
This is indeed a clash of civilisations, not between Islam and Christendom but between reason and superstition. View quote
Polly Toynbee
I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair. View quote
Patrick Stewart
The reason the government sells the census as your ticket to getting goodies - rather than as your civic duty - is that distributing goodies is now all the government does. View quote
Tom G. Palmer
The real reason we ended up getting into that type of music was our dad worked for an oil company so we spent a year overseas when we were young kids. Because of that, it was all Spanish TV and radio so we ended up having these '50s and '60s tapes, tapes of that music. View quote
Zac Hanson
We reason deeply, when we forcibly feel. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
It would be an endless task to trace the variety of meannesses, cares, and sorrows, into which women are plunged by the prevailing opinion that they were created rather to feel than reason, and that all the power they obtain, must be obtained by their charms and weakness. View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
Every day some new fact comes to light - some new obstacle which threatens the gravest obstruction. I suppose this is the reason which makes the game so well worth playing. View quote
Robert Falcon Scott
You can't sleep until noon with the proper élan unless you have some legitimate reason for staying up until three. View quote
Jean Kerr
All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light. View quote
José Martí
My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed. (Groucho Marx)
Things rarely happen for a single reason. Even the cleverest and most skilled manipulators recognize that their real art lies in making use of that which they cannot predict. View quote
Tom Clancy
Reason works better when emotions are present; the person sees sharper and more accurately when his emotions are engaged. View quote
Rollo May
Why is this thus? What is the reason of this thusness? View quote
Artemus Ward
We are taught to consume. And that's what we do. But if we realized that there really is no reason to consume, that it's just a mind set, that it's just an addiction, then we wouldn't be out there stepping on people's hands climbing the corporate ladder of success. View quote
River Phoenix
If I saw something once that I can't explain, that doesn't make them real. And if a trick of the dark gave me a chill, that doesn't make them real. And if a madman says what's at the core of us all is a senseless, flapping quiver of black shade, that's just one more reason not to believe. View quote
Charlie Huston
In my music, I'm trying to play the truth of what I am. The reason it's difficult is because I'm changing all the time. View quote
Charles Mingus
Men follow their sentiments and their self-interest, but it pleases them to imagine that they follow reason. And so they look for, and always find, some theory which, a posteriori, makes their actions appear to be logical. If that theory could be demolished scientifically, the only result would be that another theory would be substituted for the first one, and for the same purpose. View quote
Vilfredo Pareto
I never perceived a contradiction in the political revolutionary field between the ideas I maintained and the idea of that symbol, that extraordinary figure who had been so familiar to me since I began to reason. View quote
Fidel Castro
One element, however, tends to go flagrantly missing in even the most vivid conspiracy theories about the banking system, let alone in official accounts: that is, the role of military power. There's a reason why the wizard has such a strange capacity to create money out of nothing. Behind him there is a man with a gun. View quote
David Graeber
The belly is the reason that man does not easily mistake himself for a god. (David Zindell)
If there be any among us who would wish to dissolve this Union or to change its republican form, let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may be governed by reason and truth. Our first object should therefore be, to leave open to him all the avenues to truth. The most effectual hitherto found, is the freedom of the press. It is, therefore, the first shut up by those who fear the investigation of their actions. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
Reason and free inquiry are the only effectual agents against error. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
As long as the reason of man continues fallible, and he is at liberty to exercise it, different opinions will be formed. As long as the connection subsists between his reason and his self-love, his opinions and passions will have a reciprocal influence on each other, and the former will be objects to which the latter attach themselves. View quote
James Madison