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Reason Quotes - Page 113

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

When I was sixteen, it was simple. Poetry existed; therefore it could be written; and nobody had told me — yet — the many, many reasons why it could not be written by me.

"Margaret Atwood : Writing Philosophy". Waterstone's Poetry Lecture, Delivered At Hay On Wye, canpoetry.library.utoronto.ca. June 1995.

She had her reasons. Not that they were the same as anybody else's reasons.

Margaret Atwood (2007). “The Blind Assassin: A Novel”, p.1, Anchor

If the gods care not for me and for my children, There is a reason for it.

Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus, Lucius Annaeus Seneca (2015). “Stoic Six Pack: Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Golden Sayings Fragments and Discourses of Epictetus Letters from a Stoic and The Enchiridion”, p.40, Lulu.com

I'm totally engaging in cultural stereotyping, no question about it. But I think it's OK because I'm doing it for a reason, for a good reason.

"The Rumpus Interview With Malcolm Gladwell". Interview with Stephen Elliott, therumpus.net. January 22, 2009.

Islam appeals to people because it appeals also to reason.

Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”

Nothing in the Shastras, which is capable of being reasoned, can stand if it is in conflict with reason.

Mahatma Gandhi, Dennis Dalton (1996). “Gandhi: Selected Political Writings”, p.125, Hackett Publishing

This belief in God has to be based on faith which transcends reason.

Mahatma Gandhi (2005). “All Men Are Brothers”, p.54, A&C Black

The early Mussalmans accepted Islam not because they knew it to be revealed but because it appealed to their virgin reason.

Mohandas Karmchand Gandhi, Mahatma Gandhi, V. Geetha (2004). “Soul Force: Gandhi's Writings on Peace”, p.194, Tara Publishing

It is possible to reason out the existence of God to a limited extent.

Mahatma Gandhi, Mohandas Gandhi, Homer A. Jack (2005). “The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi”, p.27, Courier Corporation