Reason Quotes

13387 Reason quotes by 6691 unique authors

The reason why rivers and seas are able to be lords over a hundred mountain streams, is that they know how to keep below them.… — Laozi
For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's immigrants. They have come here… — Barack Obama
The Chinese describe themselves as political refugees. Many base that claim on China's strict population laws, which allow them to have only one child. But… — Ed Koch
I can't come up with any good reason why they [the INS] would unilaterally disarm. — Lamar S. Smith
It isn't what people think that is important, but the reason they think what they think — Eugene Ionesco
The same state of the passions which fits the multitude, who have not a sufficient stock of reason and knowledge to guide them, for opposition… — Alexander Hamilton
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. This is a truth well understood by our… — Alexander Hamilton
I think one of the reasons I'm popular again is because I'm wearing a tie. You have to be different. — Tony Bennett
In all countries, in all centuries, the primary reason for government to set up schools is to undermine the politically weak by convincing their children… — Marshall Fritz
Being right is one more good reason for not succeeding — Nicolas Gomez Davila
You know, equality is a myth, and for some reason, everyone accepts the fact that women don't make as much money as men do. I… — Beyonce Knowles
The great age of the earth will appear greater to man when he understands the origin of living organisms and the reasons for the gradual… — Jean-Baptiste Lamarck
The resources of the Deity cannot be so meagre, that, in order to create a human being endowed with reason, he must change a monkey… — Louis Agassiz
Don't ever, ever, ever give up, because you're here for a reason, even if it's just to laugh at cats on the internet. — Jenna Marbles
We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a… — John Gerstner
But we have reason to think that the annihilation of work is no less a physical impossibility than its creation, that is, than perpetual motion. — Sir George Stokes, 1st Baronet
Don't be afraid of hard work. Nothing worthwhile comes easily. Don't let others discourage you or tell you that you can't do it. In my… — Gertrude B. Elion
She thought she'd put up with however many years of stonewalling for a good reason, and she'd just figured out that as far as Castle… — Jim Shepard
All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them. — Pierre Charron
Science and reason liberate us from the shackles of superstition by offering us a framework for understanding our shared humanity. Ultimately, we all have the… — Gad Saad
Think hard about the reasons for believing and not believing, what your religion teaches you and demands so inexorably that you believe. I am convinced… — Jean Meslier
Does this mean we will always understand our challenges? Won't all of us, sometime, have reason to ask, 'O God, where art thou?' Yes! When… — Robert D. Hales
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are… — Richard Courant
For humanity has moved forward to an era when wrong and slavery are being displaced, and reason and justice are being recognized as the rule… — Mary Livermore
I, like almost all chemists I know, was also attracted by the smells and bangs that endowed chemistry with that slight but charismatic element of… — Unknown Author

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