Reason Quotes · Page 147

In the cosmology that's behind psychology, there is no reason for anyone to be here or do anything.

— James Hillman

“There is no society in human history that ever suffered because its people became too reasonable.”

— Sam Harris

Me myself I park in handicap, the reason why... ya know my bankroll make me walk with a crazy limp.

— Anonymous

The only reason we don’t have what we want in life is the reasons we create why we can’t have them.

— Tony Robbins

I think I feel a little differently than other people do. For some reason I've never felt grown up.

— William Steig

To reason, to argue. It is to walk with crutches in search of the truth. We come to it with a leap.

— Joseph Joubert

A man becomes a philosopher by reason of a certain perplexity, from which he seeks to free himself.

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I celebrate political protest, it is necessary and protected for a reason, but make it good people!

— Lisa Kennedy Montgomery

The sole precoccupation of this learned society was the destruction of humanity for philanthropic reasons and the perfection of weapons as instruments…

— Jules Verne

There's a reason why people don't and shouldn't date multiple people outside the Bachelor world. It's messy and it's not always fun.…

— Nick Viall

And we'd drink huge amounts of scotch and coke, which is a ghastly sweet drink... And now people don't drink nearly as…

— Bill Bruford

Y'know, the real reason why I was such a failure in the sense of being unable to make any sort of a…

— Paul Twitchell

To the press alone, chequered as it is with abuses, the world is indebted for all the triumphs which have been gained…

— James Madison

Most of the reason we don’t do things is because we’re afraid to fail. I just made a decision one day that…

— Sara Blakely

I always need a reason to do something on stage, for me. I am not judging anyone: there is not a good…

— Stromae

Now I think one of the reasons why religion developed in the way that it did over the centuries was precisely to…

— Karen Armstrong

To the one, a little natural moderation and quietness of temper may be sufficient to conduct us: but to the other, we…

— William Wilberforce

It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some…

— Iain McGilchrist

My biggest advice to an official who wants to pursue college or come into the NFL is to make sure you're doing…

— Sarah Thomas

We are slaves, all of us...Some are slaves to fear. Others are slaves to reason—or base desire. It is our lot to…

— Rick Yancey

I don't know how that budget would have been worked out, but that was the initial idea. Obviously, we couldn't have had…

— Mitchell Hurwitz

Recently a study proved that working from a larger, less cluttered computer screen increases concentration. I could have told them that. And…

— Stacy Schiff

I don’t see the problem with footballers taking their shirts off after scoring a goal? They enjoy it and the young ladies…

— Ian Holloway

The visible universe is subject to quantification, and is so by necessity. … Between you and me only reason will be the…

— Adelard of Bath

The reason that men are so slow to confess their vices is because they have not yet abandoned them.

— Henry Ward Beecher

I can't say why people lie; they just do. Everyone has their own reasons for not telling the truth.

— Eric Carr

The reason our economic crisis has been forestalled is the reason there will be an economic crisis.

— James Cook

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

— Allan Bloom

There are three very good reasons to travel: 1. See the world. 2. Meet new people. 3. Room service.

— Linda Sunshine

For I think belief in God is not a matter of reason at all; I think it finally is a matter of…

— William Peter Blatty

The only reason I went for that goal is that I wanted to say: 'Now, mummy-daddy, will you love me?'

— John Lennon

Money demands that you sell, not your weakness to men's stupidity, but your talent to their reason.

— Ayn Rand

The reason we need formal government guidance from the chief medical officer is to empower parents.

— Matt Hancock

“Arrogant men with knowledge make more noise from their mouth than making a sense from their mind.”

— Amit Kalantri

I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

— Charles Darwin

The ultimate reason for setting goals is to entice you to become the person it takes to achieve them

— Jim Rohn

There are many reasons for the decline in royal esteem. One is that so many of the royals are thick.

— Alastair Campbell

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

— Ayn Rand

The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason.

— Hilda Doolittle

The improvement of forest trees is the work of centuries. So much more the reason for beginning now.

— George Perkins Marsh