Famous Quotes & Sayings

Thomas Paine

The choicest gift of God [is] the gift of reason.

Sam Harris

Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love

Solon

In all things let reason be your guide.

Steve Jobs

Somewhere between the janitor and the CEO, reasons stop mattering.

Samuel Johnson

Whatever is proposed, it is much easier to find reasons for rejecting than embracing.

Samantha Bond

I'm an appalling flyer. I get very tense, although I no longer weep uncontrollably for no reason - I just sob if there's turbulence.

Roberto Cavalli

Maybe I am looking for the reason why I exist,

Tommy Wiseau

The reason I'm doing a sitcom is because it's much more approachable.

Sophocles

The gods plant reason in mankind, of all good gifts the highest.

Sophie Swetchine

We must labor unceasingly to render our piety reasonable, and our reason pious.

Steve McQueen

I need to have a reason why I'm doing something. Otherwise I'm lost.

Keith Haring

The best reason to paint is that there is no reason to paint...

James Madison

Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.

Stephenie Meyer

The only reason I left was to protect you.

Thomas Hobbes

Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.

Veronica Roth

There is a reason you don’t know all the things I know. -Marcus Eaton

Vince Staples

I feel like that's the reason a lot of pop music doesn't have that grasp that other forms of music do, because it's more rooted in only the happier aspects of life - there's not really a connection.

Maggie Stiefvater

Are you alone?" So that's what this call was about. For some reason, the question made my throat tighten. "No," I said, "Elvis is here. Would you like to talk to him?

Haruki Murakami

For some reason all the middle-aged women he knew were very efficient.

William Faulkner

The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true.

William Faulkner

She wouldn't say what we both knew. 'The reason you will not say it is, when you say it, even to yourself, you will know it is true: is that it? But you know it is true now. I can almost tell you the day when you knew it is true. Why won't you say it, even to yourself?' She will not say it.

Saint Augustine

Love has reasons that reason knows not.

Will Smith

There's no reason to have a plan B because it distracts from plan A.

Vladimir Lenin

Human reason has discovered many amazing things in nature and will discover still more, and will thereby increase its power over nature.

Wallace Stegner

History is not the proper midden for digging up novelties. Perhaps that is one reason why a nation bent on novelty ignores it.

Voltaire

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

William Empson

Proust has listed a great many reasons why it is impossible to be happy, but, in the course of being happy, one finds it difficult to remember them.

William Strunk, Jr.

Never call a stomach a tummy without good reason.

Vladimir Putin

Given the cost of borrowings and the $100 billion in Government reserves, there is no reason for us to borrow. We should review the situation carefully. Besides, borrowings are possible, but we must understand what is more profitable at this point.

Woody Allen

There's no rhyme or reason to anything that I do. It's whatever seems right at the time.

William Whewell

Conscience is the reason employed about questions of right and wrong.

William Shenstone

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

W. H. Auden

Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.