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Reason Quotes by Stephen Fry
- If you are hungry for food, you are prepared to hunt high and low for it. If you are hungry for information it is the…
- You can't reason yourself back into cheerfulness any more than you can reason yourself into an extra six inches in height.
- To me, reason is as spiritual as anything else, the beauty of reason seems to me indelible and ineffable and numinous... the spirit is after…
- The only reason people do not know much is because they do not care to know. They are incurious. Incuriousity is the oddest and most…
- It is possible to be a fan of reality TV, talent shows and bubblegum pop and still have a brain. You will also see that…
- When push-off comes to shove-off, a man must have a reason to get out of bed in the mornings, something more than the threat of…
- there is no reason why anyone should understand how it works… and of course no reason why anyone should care … unless you are curious,…
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
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle
- 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