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Reason Quotes - Page 44

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

Golfers have a tendency to be very masochistic. They like to punish themselves for some reason. A lot of them like tough courses.

"A kinder, gentler Jack". Interview to Maclean’s magazine, www.englishbaytriclub.org. May 16, 1994.

People always clap for the wrong reasons.

J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1866). “Little Foxes, Or, The Little Failings which Mar Domestic Happiness”, p.70

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.342

Part of the reason my friends and I became successful is that we were always helping each other.

"Cinematic Phenomenon". Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 19, 1999.

The sure conviction that we could if we wanted to is the reason so many good minds are idle.

"Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook K 27, 1799.

Never attempt to reason with people who know they are right!

Frank Herbert (2008). “God Emperor of Dune”, p.234, Penguin

The reason why you don't see people looking like me is because I don't encourage that. I encourage you to be you.

"Erykah Badu Unleashes Her 'Wild Rabbit'". "Ebony" Interview, www.ebony.com. July 13, 2012.

I am always busy, which is perhaps the chief reason why I am always well.

Elizabeth Cady Stanton (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as Revealed in Her Letters, Diary and Reminiscences”

The University conceives of itself as dedicated to the power of the intellect. Its commitment is to the way of reason.

Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.7, University of Chicago Press