Reason Quotes - Page 48

When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

I don't believe in fate," he said carefully, "but... I do believe everything happens for a reason. That there is some plan, some meaning to this darkness we live in.

The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.

It is a great misfortune to be alone, my friends; and it must be believed that solitude can quickly destroy reason.

I don't know one actor that became an actor for healthy reasons.

One of the reasons why a number of people have decided to go into the opposition were the reforms we carried out.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

...there's no reason why scholarship can't be as seriously playful as bubble-blowing.

Even a good decision if made for the wrong reasons can be a wrong decision.

The main reason God has given us minds is that we might seek out and find all the reasons that exist for treasuring him in all things and above all things.

But all was false and hollow; though his tongue Dropp'd manna, and could make the worse appear The better reason, 4 to perplex and dash Maturest counsels.

In transgressing the law of nature, the offender declares himself to live by another rule than that of reason and common equity.

Barack Obama's said some very nice things and he says them well. But if you ask me, the reason that we're looking at somebody who is such an inexperienced senator, who has said some very pleasant but not especially sterling or innovative things, the reason that he's considered such a big deal is simply because he's black.

Truth, wisdom, love, seek reasons; malice only seeks causes.

After all, once you know that part of something exists, it stands to reason that the rest of it is somewhere out there, too.

There's nothing wrong with losing your temper for the right reasons.

The reason why I spend so much money for my journals is to press me to find something valuable to put in them.

There are few things reason can discover with so much certainty and ease as its own insufficiency.

It's always me, isn't it? I'm not really a very nice person, but for some reason it's always me that they come to with their problems.

You see, in this world there is one awful thing, and that is that everyone has his reasons.

It's not a pretty picture, but there are reasons for hope.

When I was a screenwriter, I was doing it for mercenary reasons.

Advertising is the principal reason why the business person has come to inherit the earth.

I've never done anything half-heartedly. It's the reason my comics did well. It's the reason my comics were drawn well. I can't do anything bad.

A man generally has two reasons for doing a thing. One that sounds good, and a real one.