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Reason Quotes - Page 64

The accidental prescriptions of authority, when time has procured them veneration, are often confounded with the laws of nature, and those rules are supposed coeval with reason, of which the first rise cannot be discovered.

Samuel Johnson, Elizabeth Carter, Samuel Richardson, Catherine Talbot (1825). “The Rambler: A Periodical Paper, Published in 1750, 1751, 1752”, p.270

We may take Fancy for a companion, but must follow Reason as our guide.

James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1824). “The Life of Samuel Johnson, LL. D., Comprehending an Account of His Studies, and Numerous Works, in Chronological Order: A Series of His Epistolary Correspondence and Conversations with Many Eminent Persons; and Various Original Pieces of His Composition, Never Before Published; the Whole Exhibiting a View of Literature and Literary Men in Great Britain, for Near Half a Century During which He Flourished”, p.258

It is not the way to convert a sinner to knock him down first and then reason with him.

"Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers" by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 411, 1895.

And so it is they who, between them, give me all the reasons for believing in none.

Salman Rushdie (2008). “The Enchantress of Florence”, p.45, Random House

The heart has its reasons that the mind knows not?

S. M. Stirling (2011). “The Council of Shadows: A Novel of the Shadowspawn”, p.126, Penguin

Nobody does anything for one reason.

Interview with Robert I. Birnbaum, www.identitytheory.com. January 18, 2005.

The reason I feel like I act is because you get to live a million different lives in one. I don't have to go about my life.

"Rose McIver Talks BRIGHTEST STAR, Acting in All Mediums, Working on MASTERS OF SEX, ONCE UPON A TIME, and More". Interview with Christina Radish, collider.com. February 2, 2014.

One reason I never called balks is that I never understood the rule.

Ron Luciano, David Fisher (1984). “Strike Two”, G K Hall & Company

I have seen these ways of God: I know of no reason For fire and change and torture and the old returnings.

Robinson Jeffers, Albert Gelpi (2003). “The Wild God of the World: An Anthology of Robinson Jeffers”, p.46, Stanford University Press

Ay! idleness! the rich folks never fail To find some reason why the poor deserve Their miseries.

Robert Southey (1854). “Ballads, metrical tales and other poems”, p.141

One reason you should not use web applications to do your computing is that you lose control.

"Cloud Computing Is a Trap, Warns GNU Founder Richard Stallman". Interview with Bobbie Johnson, www.theguardian.com. September 29, 2008.