Reason Quotes - page 2

Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. (Leonhard Euler)
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. View quote
Michael Faraday
My pain may be the reason for somebody's laugh. But my laugh must never be the reason for somebody's pain. View quote
Charlie Chaplin
All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason. View quote
Immanuel Kant
Reason is the enemy of faith. View quote
Martin Luther
It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to show a ready wit all day long than to produce an occasional bon mot. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. View quote
Aristotle
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. View quote
Sam Levenson
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it. View quote
Frederick Soddy
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. View quote
Thomas Paine
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. (Dag Hammarskjöld)
The power of the people and the power of reason are one. View quote
Georg Büchner
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. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. View quote
William Penn
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. View quote
Paul Robeson
The reason why lovers are never weary of one another is this - they are always talking of themselves. View quote
François de La Rochefoucauld
One should always be in love. That's the reason one should never marry. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. View quote
Oscar Wilde
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse. View quote
Omar Khayyám
The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything. (Walter Bagehot)
If we long to believe that the stars rise and set for us, that we are the reason there is a Universe, does science do us a disservice in deflating our conceits? View quote
Carl Sagan
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly. View quote
Michel de Montaigne
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. View quote
Charles Caleb Colton
There is no reason for any individual to have a computer in his home. View quote
Ken Olsen