Reason Quotes

13387 Reason quotes by 6691 unique authors

The only reason I went to college was to play basketball. I injured my knee and couldn't play. — Jeffrey Dean Morgan
Baseball gets better for whatever reason. — Rafael Palmeiro
Reason is a crutch for age, but youth is strong enough to walk alone. — John Dryden
Almost all of your life is lived by the seat of your pants, one unexpected event crashing into another, with no pattern or reason, and… — Ron Perlman
There is not necessarily a good reason why a regulator should have to be involved in product design and marketing for rich and sophisticated investors.… — John Redwood
Reason may cure illusions, but not suffering. — Alfred de Musset
Conventional wisdom notwithstanding, there is no reason either in football or in poetry why the two should not meet in a man's life if he… — Archibald MacLeish
One reason God created time was so that there would be a place to bury the failures of the past. — James Long
My greatest political asset, which professional politicians fear, is my mouth, out of which come all kinds of things one shouldn’t always discuss for reasons… — Shirley Chisholm
Our representative democracy is not working because the Congress that is supposed to represent the voters does not respond to their needs. I believe the… — Shirley Chisholm
I was the first American citizen to be elected to Congress in spite of the double drawbacks of being female and having skin darkened by… — Shirley Chisholm
We slow the progress of science today for all sorts of ethical reasons. Biomedicine could advance much faster if we abolished our rules on human… — Paul Nitze
Reason has seldom failed us because it has seldom been tried. — Edward Abbey
Spartacus, like Jesus, was also crucified by the Romans. And for equally good reasons. — Edward Abbey
No man-made structure in all of American history has been hated so much, by so many, for so long, with such good reason, as that… — Edward Abbey
The mind resorts to reason for want of training. — Henry Adams
If the British government is prepared to say that the Unionists will not have a veto over British government policy and that guns, vetoes and… — Martin McGuinness
Muhammad brought down from heaven and put into the Koran not religious doctrines only, but political maxims, criminal and civil laws, and scientific theories. The Gospels on… — Alexis de Tocqueville
Inflation is probably the most important single factor in that vicious circle wherein one kind of government action makes more and more government control necessary.… — Friedrich August von Hayek
The evidence of [the] natural right [of expatriation], like that of our right to life, liberty, the use of our faculties, the pursuit of happiness,… — Thomas Jefferson
Questions of natural right are triable by their conformity with the moral sense and reason of man. — Thomas Jefferson
It is a [disputed] question, whether the circulation of paper, rather than of specie [gold and silver coin], is a good or an evil I… — Thomas Jefferson
For if Men are to be precluded from offering their Sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can… — George Washington
But there is another and greater distinction for which no truly natural or religious reason can be assigned, and that is the distinction of men… — Thomas Paine
Of all the systems of religion that ever were invented, there is no more derogatory to the Almighty, more unedifiying to man, more repugnant to… — Thomas Paine

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