Reason Quotes - page 9

Who mix'd reason with pleasure, and wisdom with mirth If he had any faults, he has left us in doubt. (Oliver Goldsmith)
The American struggle for the vote was much more difficult than the English for the simple reason that it was much more easy. View quote
Rebecca West
My classmates would copulate with anything that moved, but I never saw any reason to limit myself. View quote
Emo Philips
To have some account of my thoughts, manners, acquaintance and actions, when the hour arrives in which time is more nimble than memory, is the reason which induces me to keep a journal: a journal in which I must confess my every thought, must open my whole heart! View quote
Frances Burney
The only reason why we ask other people how their weekend was is so we can tell them about our own weekend. View quote
Chuck Palahniuk
If somebody prefers an income distribution more favorable to the poor for the sole reason that he is poor himself, this can hardly be considered as a genuine value judgment on social welfare. View quote
John Harsanyi
These are strange times. Reason, which once combatted faith and seemed to have conquered it, now has to look to faith to save it from dissolution. View quote
Johan Huizinga
anger based on calculated reason is more dangerous than anger based on blind hate. View quote
Richelle Mead
The only reason for being a professional writer is that you can't help it. View quote
Leo Rosten
The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer terror. View quote
Oscar Wilde
I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. (Oscar Wilde)
Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent amongst them. That is the reason why agitators are so absolutely necessary. Without them, in our incomplete state, there would be no advance towards civilization. View quote
Oscar Wilde
Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure. View quote
Neil deGrasse Tyson
You have reason to wonder that you are not already in hell. View quote
Jonathan Edwards (theologian)
The principles of the good society call for a concern with an order of being -- which cannot be proved existentially to the sense organs -- where it matters supremely that the human person is inviolable, that reason shall regulate the will. . . View quote
Walter Lippmann
It is no surprise to me that hardly anyone tells the truth about how they feel. The smart ones keep themselves to themselves for good reason. Why would you want to tell anyone anything that's dear to you? Even when you like them and want nothing more than to be closer than close to them? It's so painful to be next to someone you feel strongly about and know you can't say the things you want to. View quote
Henry Rollins
I am sure that since I have had the full use of my reason, nobody has ever heard me laugh. View quote
Philip Stanhope, 4th Earl of Chesterfield
The writer isn't made in a vacuum. Writers are witnesses. The reason we need writers is because we need witnesses to this terrifying century. View quote
E. L. Doctorow
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side. View quote
George Savile, 1st Marquess of Halifax
If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance to his instincts, he will accept it even on the slightest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way. View quote
Bertrand Russell
To save the world requires faith and courage faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true. (Bertrand Russell)
Power consists in one's capacity to link his will with the purpose of others, to lead by reason and a gift of cooperation. View quote
Woodrow Wilson
The clock of communism has stopped striking. But its concrete building has not yet come crashing down. For that reason, instead of freeing ourselves, we must try to save ourselves from being crushed by its rubble. View quote
Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it. View quote
Agatha Christie