Reason Quotes - page 3

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation. (Charles Baudelaire)
If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold. View quote
Louis Brandeis
The only reason I made a commercial for American Express was to pay for my American Express bill. View quote
Peter Ustinov
Any artist should be grateful for a naive grace which puts him beyond the need to reason elaborately. View quote
Saul Bellow
Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life. View quote
Eleanor Roosevelt
Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason why so few engage in it. View quote
Henry Ford
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. View quote
Karl Marx
My wife and I have five children the reason we have five children is because we do not want six. View quote
Bill Cosby
Do not need to look for reasons to hate when there is reason to love. View quote
Lara Fabian
The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity. View quote
Harriet Beecher Stowe
The reason laziness is rarely pushed as a lifestyle option is down to one simple reason: money. There are fortunes to be made out of active lifestyles. Gyms charge fees. But no one is going to make money out of sleep. It is free. (Tom Hodgkinson)
Your own reason is the only oracle given you by heaven, and you are answerable for, not the rightness, but the uprightness of the decision. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
The dog has got more fun out of Man than Man has got out of the dog, for the clearly demonstrable reason that Man is the more laughable of the two animals. View quote
James Thurber
To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it. View quote
William Hazlitt
A petty reason perhaps why novelists more and more try to keep a distance from journalists is that novelists are trying to write the truth and journalists are trying to write fiction. View quote
Graham Greene
One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving. View quote
Paulo Coelho
The perpetual tendency of the race of man to increase beyond the means of subsistence is one of the general laws of animated nature, which we can have no reason to expect to change. View quote
Thomas Malthus
Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it. View quote
Thomas Carlyle
He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason. View quote
Cicero
Virtue is reason which has become energy. View quote
Friedrich Schlegel
It is not what a lawyer tells me I may do; but what humanity, reason, and justice tell me I ought to do. (Edmund Burke)
The reason why worry kills more people than work is that more people worry than work. View quote
Robert Frost
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life. View quote
Henry James
I'm tired of being considered some kind of criminal or dangerous throwback for no other reason than that I value, exercise, and defend my rights under the first ten Amendments to the United States Constitution. View quote
L. Neil Smith
The first question I ask myself when something doesn't seem to be beautiful is why do I think it's not beautiful. And very shortly you discover that there is no reason. View quote
John Cage