Reason Quotes - Page 44
J.D. Salinger (1951). “The Catcher in the Rye”
The only reason for the existence of a novel is that it does attempt to represent life.
Partial Portraits (1888) "Art of Fiction"
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
Gore Vidal (1987). “Armageddon?: essays 1983-1987”, Andre Deutsch Ltd
George Washington (1855). “Maxims of Washington: Political, Social, Moral, and Religious”, p.342
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
Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Blue: A Novel”, p.289, Macmillan
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”
Edward H. Levi (2008). “Point of View: Talks on Education”, p.7, University of Chicago Press
For the same reason I read the National Geographic, I like to see places I will never visit.
"The Father of Spin". Book by Larry Tye, p. 102, 1998.
Dave Barry (1999). “Dave Barry Turns 50”, Random House Digital, Inc.