Reason Quotes

13387 Reason quotes by 6691 unique authors

He was a worshiper of liberty, a friend of the oppressed. A thousand times I have heard him quote these words: 'For Justice all place… — Robert Green Ingersoll
Recent breakthroughs in science show we have just the capacities we need to face our planet's challenges. We're "soft-wired" for cooperation, empathy, fairness, along with… — Frances Moore LappÃ©
Lack of understanding of the true nature of happiness, it seems to me, is the principal reason why people inflict sufferings on others. They think… — Dalai Lama
I do it because I want to exercise people's compassion and I do it because I really believe that for some reason what I do… — Kyra Sedgwick
We can choose between the future and the past, between reason and ignorance, between true compassion and mere ideology. — Ron Reagan
That is the dignity of America, the reason she exists, the condition of her survival, yes, the ultimate test of her greatness: to respect every… — Pope John Paul II
Love makes us instinctively reach out to God and other people. Lust, on the other hand, is anything but godly and celebrates self-indulgence. Love comes… — Jeffrey R. Holland
Most women do not have [abortions] with some sort of party going on. It is the hardest decision that a woman ever has to make… — Whoopi Goldberg
States are more like people than they are like anything else: they exist by purpose, reason, suffering, and joy. And peace between states is also… — Roger Scruton
Little boats should keep near shore — Benjamin Franklin
I've been advised not to have any more children for medical reasons, so that's it - the shop has closed, even though I would have… — Toni Braxton
One of the reasons I did this, because I wasn't really looking for another science fiction film, was that my daughter can see it. She's… — Sigourney Weaver
The reason we all need a mutton alert, which needs constant testing, like smoke alarms, is because there is really no such thing as age-appropriate… — Rachel Johnson
No man is allowed to be a judge in his own cause . . . . With equal, nay with greater reason, bodies of men,… — James Madison
Inference is founded upon obvious reasons. Regard to reputation has a less active influence, when the infamy of a bad action is to be divided… — James Madison
[If a book were] very innocent, and one which might be confided to the reason of any man; not likely to be much read if… — Thomas Jefferson
I am... for freedom of the press, and against all violations of the Constitution to silence by force and not by reason the complaints or… — Thomas Jefferson
The art of printing secures us against the retrogradation of reason and information. — Thomas Jefferson
No experiment can be more interesting than that we are now trying, and which we trust will end in establishing the fact, that man may… — Thomas Jefferson
Before I met her, I drank and swore without reason... now I have a reason. — Benny Hill
When we preach Christ crucified, we have no reason to stammer, or stutter, or hesitate, or apologize; there is nothing in the gospel of which… — Charles Spurgeon
Natural death is independent of all reason and is really an irrational death, in which the pitiable substance of the shell determines how long the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
Never Forget, even for an instant, that the one and only reason anybody has for taking your gun away is to make you weaker than… — L. Neil Smith
From first to last it is a dish of rank materialism cleverly cooked up ... . And why is this done? For no other reason,… — Adam Sedgwick
One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is probably right in… — Huston Smith

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