Quotes about Reason, page 2

The reason that there are so few good books written is that so few people who write know anything.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about reason

The reason why so few good books are written is that so few people who can write know anything.

Quote by Walter Bagehot about reason

My weaknesses are my jumps. The reason is that although I land them in practice, when I actually compete or perform, I should let my body go and stabilize my mind better. Also, I need to work on not letting negative thoughts and emotions get to me...

Quote by Oksana Baiul about reason

Reporters thrive on the world's misfortune. For this reason they often take an indecent pleasure in events that dismay the rest of humanity.

Quote by Russell Baker about reason

I aspire to be that, to be a voice of reason one day.

Quote by Drew Barrymore about reason

I believe that everything happens for a reason, but I think it's important to seek out that reason - that's how we learn.

Quote by Drew Barrymore about reason

On that film and I Dreamed of Africa, I was able to submerge myself into the work and we were all there for the same reason: To try to do the best we can, do a great piece of work and not take it all so seriously.

Quote by Kim Basinger about reason

There's a reason Billie Holiday cut these songs, as well as Sinatra, Rod Stewart and Diana Krall.

Quote by Michael Bolton about reason

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.

Quote by Aristotel about reason

The law is reason, free from passion.

Quote by Aristotel about reason

This is the reason why mothers are more devoted to their children than fathers: it is that they suffer more in giving them birth and are more certain that they are their own.

Quote by Aristotel about reason

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about reason

Those who will not reason, are bigots, those who cannot, are fools, and those who dare not, are slaves.

Quote by George Gordon Byron about reason

Passion is the evil in adultery. If a man has no opportunity of living with another man's wife, but if it is obvious for some reason that he would like to do so, and would do so if he could, he is no less guilty than if he was caught in the act.

Quote by Augustin de Hipona about reason

Aptitude found in the understanding and is often inherited. Genius coming from reason and imagination, rarely.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about reason

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

Quote by Marcus Aurelius about reason

Truly fertile Music, the only kind that will move us, that we shall truly appreciate, will be a Music conducive to Dream, which banishes all reason and analysis. One must not wish first to understand and then to feel. Art does not tolerate Reason.

Quote by Albert Camus about reason

There's a reason why every human society has fiction. It teaches us how to be 'good, ' to behave in a way that is for the benefit of the whole community.

Quote by Orson Scott about reason

Be a terror to the butchers, that they may be fair in their weight; and keep hucksters and fraudulent dealers in awe, for the same reason.

Quote by Miguel de Cervantes about reason

Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the most charming girl in the world.

Quote by Jane Austen about reason