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Reason Quotes by Oscar Wilde
- It is only about things that do not interest one that one can give a really unbiased opinion, which is no doubt the reason why…
- The great things in life are what they seem to be. And for that reason, strange as it may sound to you, often are very…
- Technique is really personality. That is the reason why the artist cannot teach it, why the pupil cannot learn it, and why the aesthetic critic…
- Agitators are a set of interfering, meddling people, who come down to some perfectly contented class of the community and sow the seeds of discontent…
- Only the unimaginative can fail to find a reason for drinking Champagne
- Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
- One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
- I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect.
- The reason we all like to think so well of others is that we are all afraid for ourselves. The basis of optimism is sheer…
- The more one analyses people, the more all reasons for analysis disappear. Sooner or later one comes to that dreadful universal thing called human nature.
- Why can't these American women stay in their own country? They are always telling us that it is the paradise for women. It is. That…
- I asked the question for the best reason possible, for the only reason, indeed, that excuses anyone for asking any question - simple curiosity.
- The proper basis for marriage is mutual misunderstanding. The happiness of a married man depends on the people he has not married. One should always…
- A man cannot reason with the woman he loves: he cares about her too much.
More Reason Quotes
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- The law is reason, free from passion. — Aristotle
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- He who can be, and therefore is, another's, and he who participates in reason enough to apprehend, but not to have, is… — Aristotle
- Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for this reason… — Aristotle
- Excellence, then, is a state concerned with choice, lying in a mean, relative to us, this being determined by reason and in… — Aristotle
- Writing makes you feel that there is a reason to go on living. If I couldn't write, I would stop breathing. — Paul Auster
- The first time that you escape from home or the small town that you live in - there's a reason a small… — Billie Joe Armstrong
- For whatever reason, maybe it's because of my story, but people associate Livestrong with exercise and physical fitness, health and lifestyle choices… — Lance Armstrong
- I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. — Isaac Asimov
- The design of Rhetoric is to remove those Prejudices that lie in the way of Truth, to Reduce the Passions to the… — Mary Astell
- Dealing with global warming doesn't mean we have all got to suddenly stop breathing. Dealing with global warming means that we have… — David Attenborough