Reason Quotes - Page 84

Is almost a good enough reason for fear?

To save the world requires faith and courage: faith in reason, and courage to proclaim what reason shows to be true.

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

There's a reason why the NRA's not here. They're just down the street. And since this is the main reason they exist, you'd think that they'd be prepared to have a debate with a president.

I make no apologies for being reasonable.

It stands to reason that if sacrifices are being given, somebody is collecting sacrifices.

Reason is the miner's lamp used in bringing up ore from the mind.

Reason is feminine in nature; it can only give after it has received.

Intuition without reason is the fertile mother of blunders and wrongs.

The trade of the petty usurer is hated with most reason: it makes a profit from currency itself, instead of making it from the process which currency was meant to serve. Their common characteristic is obviously their sordid avarice.

I request reason for your golden rule and ask the why and wherefore of your ten commandments.

I am ready to obey as a child; :;but, not being a child, I think I ought to have a reason.

A schedule is a mock-up of reason and order - willed, faked, and so brought into being.

Taiwan and China are related ethnically and close neighbors geographically. There's no reason to resent or to fight against each other.

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

When the remarkable becomes bizarre, reason turns rancid.

The underlying reason for this is the Europeans' fear that Islamists could gain power. Many still consider authoritarian Arab regimes to be the lesser evil.

For some reason writing and drawing are very separate processes for me.

The only reason you make a movie is not to make or set out to do a good or a bad movie, it's just to see what you learn for the next one.

It is impossible to get anywhere without sinning against reason.

The cold, suffocating dark goes on forever and we are alone. Live our lives, lacking anything better to do. Devise reason later.

Certainly we do not need quantum mechanics for macroscopic objects, which are well described by classical physics - this is the reason why quantum mechanics seems so foreign to our everyday existence.

Wisdom chooses the unknown to be its reason.

Poems have always been a place for questions for me. Not answers. And I have a lot of questions these days. One of the reasons I've felt so connected to poetry throughout the years is because it's the only art form that has breath built into it. And I need that breath now. I need that breath so much. So, yes, it is a refuge for me. Absolutely.

The only reason you should be in college is to destroy it.