Reason Quotes - Page 76

There's no hope. There's no reason to keep trying. Because you must. This is not hope. Not reason. This is your fate. This is your life, what you must do.

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

REASON, v.i. To weight probabilities in the scales of desire.

If you have a brother or sister, tell them you love them every day - that's the most beautiful thing. I told my sister how much I loved her every day. That's the only reason I'm OK right now.

The most important function of the university in an age of reason is to protect reason from itself.

I see no reason why 1931 should not be an extremely good year.

But there is another reason for the high repute of mathematics: it is mathematics that offers the exact natural sciences a certain measure of security which, without mathematics, they could not attain.

Reason is intuition's servant.

True respectability stems not from the will of the majority but from proper reasoning.

Do not seek to find a reason why elections are not possible. Seek to make them possible, and they will be possible.

When I came back to Washington to be The Times' chief congressional correspondent in 1991, I was looking for a book subject, and Ted Kennedy stood out for two reasons.

The reason why you know more funny dudes than funny chicks is that dudes are funnier than chicks.

Who that has reason, and his smell, Would not among roses and jasmin dwell?

Critics have a job to do. They do not criticize you without reason.

If there's a buzzing-noise, somebody's making a buzzing-noise, and the only reason for making a buzzing-noise that I know of is because you're a bee.

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.

Getting even is one reason for writing.

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

Could he with reason murmur at his case, Himself sole author of his own disgrace?

Faith is reason denying absurdity in the face of the unknown.

I feel for all faiths the warm sympathy of one who has come to learn that even the trust in reason is a precarious faith, and that we are all fragments of darkness groping for the sun. I know no more about the ultimates than the simplest urchin in the streets.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.

The credulous ... advance the authority of hearsay in place of reasons for possible success or facts that can be demonstrated.

If there's a spotlight on you, people are going to look for a reason to bring you down.