Reason Quotes

13387 Reason quotes by 6691 unique authors

I write at eighty-five for the same reasons that impelled me to write at forty-five; I was born with a passionate desire to communicate, to… — James A. Michener
If a scene or a section gets the better of you and you still think you want it-bypass it and go on. When you have… — John Steinbeck
There are two kinds of people in the world: those who make excuses and those who get results. An excuse person will find any excuse… — Alan Cohen
Mathematics is one of the deepest and most powerful expressions of pure human reason, and, at the same time, the most fundamental resource for description… — Hyman Bass
Give unto me, made lowly wise, The spirit of self-sacrifice; The confidence of reason give, And in the light of truth thy bondman let me… — William Wordsworth
We teach what we like to learn and the reason many people go into teaching is vicariously to reexperience the primary joy experienced the first… — Stephen Brookfield
I don't know nothing about communism. But I know the Albanians loved me. Same reason as anyone else loves me. Because I made them laugh. — Norman Wisdom
The government of man should be the monarchy of reason: it is too often the democracy of passions or the anarchy of humors. — Benjamin Whichcote
I suspect it is for one's self-interest that one looks at one's surroundings and one's self. This search is personally born and is indeed my… — Lee Friedlander
I did not believe I was superior to him. Perhaps the chief reason for his defeat was the overestimation of his own powers arising out… — Alexander Alekhine
If you play music for no other reason than actually just because you love it, the skills just kinda creep up on you. — Nuno Bettencourt
I see no reason for recording the obvious. — Edward Weston
What I feel is that the picture-taking process, anyway a greater part of it, is an intuitive thing. You can't go out and logically plan… — Wynn Bullock
As a matter of fact, nearly all the greatest work is being, and has always been done, by those who are following photography for the… — Alfred Stieglitz
Part of the reason that these attempts at explanation fail, I think, is that photographers, like all artists, choose their medium because it allows them… — Robert Adams
We make pictures. At the end of the day, we create something potentially significant that did not exist at the beginning of the day. We… — Joe McNally
In a bygone era, penalty-takers would put their laces through the ball and threaten to put a permanent bulge in the netting. For reasons that… — Pete Gill
The provision of the Constitution giving the war making power to Congress was dictated, as I understand it, by the following reasons: Kings had always… — Abraham Lincoln
A Ming vase can be well-designed and well-made and is beautiful for that reason alone. I don't think this can be true for photography. Unless… — John Loengard
Give the opponents more than one reason to stare at your feet. — Lionel Messi
Law is the highest reason implanted in Nature, which commands what ought to be done and forbids the opposite. — Marcus Tullius Cicero
Nature . . . is inexorable and immutable; she never transgresses the laws imposed upon her, nor cares a whit whether her abstruse reasons and… — Galileo Galilei
Whatever the reason, for most of the present century, the literature and publicity of the old established [animal welfare] groups made a significant contribution to… — Peter Singer
We have seen that the senses and intuitions, the various emotions and faculties, such as love, memory, attention and curiosity, imitation, reason, etc., of which… — Charles Darwin
God had given men reason, by which they could find out things for themselves, but He had given animals knowledge which did not depend on… — Anna Sewell

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