Reason Quotes · Page 230

The language of psychiatry, which is a monologue by reason about madness, could only have come into existence in such a silence.

— Michel Foucault

Just remember everything happens for a reason. We just have to pick ourselves up, and look on the bright side of life.

— Megan Smith

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

— Mark Twain

There's a reason why I'm mean...because people don't appreciate kindness.

— Anonymous

There's a reason why Federer and Nadal are so gracious when they lose. They sleep well at night knowing that they've given…

— Jim Courier

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

— William James

If you love yourself the most at your happiest moments, there is no reason not to be fond of who you are…

— Ashly Lorenzana

The ballet world is so competitive, and for no reason. It's not a sport. It's an art. There's no winner.

— Sergei Polunin

Every character is asking: 'What's my place? Why am I here? I don't want the answer to be 'Just because.' You find…

— Sharon Creech

Mr. Speaker, I am deeply concerned that many regions of this world are suffering from the effects of armed conflicts with religious…

— Alcee Hastings

When comics came along in the 1930s there was a talent pool waiting. And one reason is so many areas were closed…

— Jerry Robinson

I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown. I am greatly supported in this view…

— Christopher Columbus

I have so much love for football, that I think is the reason why I seek refuge in training - I'm always…

— Kylian Mbappe

If for no other reason, personal pride should prompt every governor and state legislator to take a secessionist attitude; they were not…

— Frank Chodorov

You have to want to make a film for other reasons - to say something, to tell a story, to show somebody's…

— Krzysztof Kieslowski

So we [Americans] have a history a taking care of each other. Now, for some strange reason starting sort of in the…

— Benjamin Carson

The top fighters spar hard. They're really sparring for two reasons: One is to improve their technique, but the other, which is…

— Jonathan Gottschall

I've got a lot of things that are probably obvious, not much outside the box right now. But, I have been listening…

— Hal Ketchum

Every philosophy is complete in itself and, like a genuine work of art, contains the totality. Just as the works of Apelles…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

We're not going to do any titles in Bloodsport. That's really just for a very very very simple reason and that is…

— Josh Barnett

I belonged to the Columbia Record Club, and that's where my records came from. For some reason, I was in the 'jazz'…

— Leon Russell

“Critics are much madder than poets... Poetry is sane because it floats easily in an infinite sea; reason seeks to cross the…

— Chesterton, G.K

“If the Pentateuch be true, religious persecution is a duty. The dungeons of the Inquisition were temples, and the clank of every…

— Robert G. Ingersoll

Justice is always naive and self-confident; believing that it will immediately win once recognized. That is the reason why the forces of…

— Vladimir Bukovsky

Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

— Gail Sheehy

There is no national problem in the world today which cannot be resolved by reason alone.

— L. Ron Hubbard

I was just working on music and reading. It was relaxing. I would just stay up so late for no reason because…

— Jack Tatum

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Everything happens for a reason...good and bad. Learn from your mistakes and keep moving forward...down the road of life.

— Timothy Pina

I have no agenda. I'll play anywhere. All I need is a reason to believe that it's a good place for me…

— Jake Peavy

Death is to be feared because of the pain and loss it inflicts through love, and for no other reason.

— Anonymous

The worship of reason is arrogance and betrays a lack of intelligence. The rejection of reason is cowardice and betrays a lack…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

Love is the hardest lesson in Christianity; but, for that reason, it should be most our care to learn it.

— William Penn

If sensuality be our only happiness we ought to envy the brutes, for instinct is a surer, shorter, safer guide to such…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Every human being has the right to ask the reason, why, and to have his question answered by himself, if he only…

— Swami Vivekananda

[...]It is as if after surviving so much, there was no longer reason to survive.

— Jonathan Safran Foer

“A person has to have a reason for living, and the best reason is another person. Together they can make a plan…

— Chaim Potok

There's a reason why people question the trustworthiness of Hillary Clinton. And that's because they're paying attention.

— Mike Pence

I do enjoy acting, but it is such a game. So for that reason, I don't think I'll ever leave London.

— David Harewood

As I've thought about gay marriage, I don't see any reason not to say that [couples] should be able to get married.

— Colin Powell