Reason Quotes - Page 43

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

When you feel like an outsider - for whatever reason - you spend a lot of time alone.

Usually sociopaths will look down upon us for that very reason - that we're gullible. We're weak. One person told me that he thought he was the only honest person because he would admit that he didn't have a conscience and everybody else was clearly faking it.

To be broken is no reason to see all things as broken.

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience of individuals indiscriminately to whole classes.

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

We have built a thousand temples to Fortune and not one to Reason

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

[To Bonaparte, when asked why she meddled in politics:] Sire, when women have their heads cut off, it is but just they should know the reason.

Nobody is here without a reason. I always had a different sensibility. I like a huge range of comedy - from broad and farcical, the most sensitive, the most understated - but I always wanted my comedy to be more embracing of the species rather than debasing of it.

If we admit that human life can be ruled by reason, the possibility of life is destroyed.

The reason the way of the transgressor is hard is because it's so crowded.

And we've got a toaster and everything. So there is no reason for the wedding.

All forms of the state have democracy for their truth, and for that reason are false to the extent that they are not democracy

I only go to places if I have a professional reason. I'm not a tourist.

The standard of living has risen along with the size of the world's population since the beginning of recorded time. There is no convincing economic reason why these trends toward a better life should not continue indefinitely.

Missing you?" she giggled incredulously. "I could cheerfully murder you." "I'd come back to haunt you," he threatened with a grin. "And that," she said, "is the only reason why I haven't tried.

Bad literature is a form of treason.

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.

I'm just one of the lucky people. I have no other reason for my longevity.

Disciplined people can do the right thing at the right time in the right way for the right reason.

Eyesight should learn from reason.

Not only the entire ability to think rests on language... but language is also the crux of the misunderstanding of reason with itself.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

Everyone has his reasons.