Reason Quotes - page 4

Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war. (Norman Mailer)
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason why it was put up. View quote
G. K. Chesterton
I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason. View quote
Elie Wiesel
The fact that life has no meaning is a reason to live - moreover, the only one. View quote
Emil Cioran
They say Princes learn no art truly, but the art of horsemanship. The reason is, the brave beast is no flatterer. He will throw a prince as soon as his groom. View quote
Ben Jonson
No one ever lacks a good reason for suicide. View quote
Cesare Pavese
Good sense travels on the well-worn paths; genius, never. And that is why the crowd, not altogether without reason, is so ready to treat great men as lunatics. View quote
Cesare Lombroso
If you could say it in words there would be no reason to paint. View quote
Edward Hopper
In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development. View quote
Bhimrao Ramji Ambedkar
Nothing is more capable of troubling our reason, and consuming our health, than secret notions of jealousy in solitude. View quote
Aphra Behn
They wrote in the old days that it is sweet and fitting to die for one's country. But in modern war, there is nothing sweet nor fitting in your dying. You will die like a dog for no good reason. (Ernest Hemingway)
A cat has absolute emotional honesty: human beings, for one reason or another, may hide their feelings, but a cat does not. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
A woman should not take a lover without the consent of her heart, nor a husband without the consent of her reason. View quote
Ninon de L'Enclos
Fashion is something barbarous, for it produces innovation without reason and imitation without benefit. View quote
George Santayana
Maria is the best reason to come home. View quote
Arnold Schwarzenegger
I love America more than any other country in this world, and, exactly for this reason, I insist on the right to criticize her perpetually. View quote
James Baldwin
I do not feel obliged to believe that the same God who has endowed us with sense, reason, and intellect has intended us to forgo their use. View quote
Galileo Galilei
The best reason I can think of for not running for President of the United States is that you have to shave twice a day. View quote
Adlai Stevenson II
Reason is the life of the law; nay, the common law itself is nothing else but reason - the law which is perfection of reason. View quote
Edward Coke
There is reason to think the most celebrated philosophers would have been bunglers at business; but the reason is because they despised it. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one. (Bertrand Russell)
Right reason is stronger than force. View quote
James A. Garfield
The gods had condemned Sisyphus to ceaselessly rolling a rock to the top of a mountain, whence the stone would fall back of its own weight. They had thought with some reason that there is no more dreadful punishment than futile and hopeless labor. View quote
Albert Camus
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
Most of the things we do, we do for no better reason than that our fathers have done them or our neighbors do them, and the same is true of a larger part than what we suspect of what we think. View quote
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.