Reason Quotes - page 6

The chief reason for drinking is the desire to behave in a certain way, and to be able to blame it on alcohol. (Mignon McLaughlin)
The only reason they come to see me is that I know that life is great, and they know I know it. View quote
Clark Gable
Do you ever get the feeling that the only reason we have elections is to find out if the polls were right? View quote
Robert Orben
My reason, it's true, controls my feelings, But whatever its authority, It doesn't rule them so much as tyrannize them. View quote
Pierre Corneille
I believe that everything in life happens for a reason. View quote
Boris Becker
Reason is like an open secret that can become known to anyone at any time; it is the quiet space into which everyone can enter through his own thought. View quote
Karl Jaspers
We must plan for freedom, and not only for security, if for no other reason than that only freedom can make security secure. View quote
Karl Popper
A man's real life is that accorded to him in the thoughts of other men by reason of respect or natural love. View quote
Joseph Conrad
As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss. View quote
Noam Chomsky
The true triumph of reason is that it enables us to get along with those who do not possess it. View quote
Voltaire
All the interests of my reason, speculative as well as practical, combine in the three following questions: 1. What can I know? 2. What ought I to do? 3. What may I hope? (Immanuel Kant)
Reason respects the differences, and imagination the similitudes of things. View quote
Percy Bysshe Shelley
New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without anyother reason but because they are not already common. View quote
John Locke
Every existing thing is born without reason, prolongs itself out of weakness, and dies by chance. View quote
Jean-Paul Sartre
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once. View quote
Albert Einstein
Reason in man is rather like God in the world. View quote
Thomas Aquinas
But reason always cuts a poor figure beside sentiment; the one being essentially restricted, like everything that is positive, while the other is infinite. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
The basic scientific conclusions on climate change are very robust and for good reason. The greenhouse effect is simple science: greenhouse gases trap heat, and humans are emitting ever more greenhouse gases. View quote
Nicholas Stern
We are all here for some special reason. Stop being a prisoner of your past. Become the architect of your future. View quote
Robin S. Sharma
Japanese traditional architecture is created based on these conditions. This is the reason you have a very high degree of connection between the outside and inside in architecture. View quote
Tadao Ando
I see myself as a journalist reporting neglected stories about our past and trying to bring rigor, reason and intuition to the quest. (Graham Hancock)
She said the reason that love is so painful is that it always amounts to two people wanting more than two people can give. View quote
Edna O'Brien
I've encountered a lot of people who sound like critics but very few who have substantive criticisms. There is a lot of skepticism, but it seems to be more a matter of inertia than it is of people having some real reason for thinking something else. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
I love the irony of movies. I really do. For whatever reason, I'm incredibly intrigued by the irony of reality in a motion picture. View quote
Zack Snyder
The growth of modern constitutional government compels for its successful practice the exercise of reason and considerate judgment by the individual citizens who constitute the electorate. View quote
Elihu Root