Quotes
Quotes about Reason
A real person has two reasons for doing anything . . . a good reason and the real reason.
Self-defense is the clearest of all laws, and for this reason: lawyers didn't make it.
A leader or a man of action in a crisis almost always acts subconsciously and then thinks of the reasons for his action.
Reason and judgment are the qualities of a leader.
Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
The real reason for not committing suicide is because you always know how swell life gets again after the hell is over.
There is first the literature of knowledge, and secondly, the literature of power. The function of the first is--to teach; the function of the second is--to move, the first is a rudder, the second an oar or a sail. The first speaks to the mere discursive understanding; the second speaks ultimately, it may happen, to the higher understanding or reason, but always through affections of pleasure and sympathy. - Thomas De Quincey ("The Opium Eater"),
Only those things are beautiful which are inspired by madness and written by reason.
There is no human reason why a child should not admire and emulate his teacher's ability to do sums, rather than the village bum's ability to whittle sticks and smoke cigarettes. The reason why the child does not is plain enoughâthe bum has put himself on an equality with him and the teacher has not.
We don't love qualities, we love persons; sometimes by reason of their defects as well as of their qualities.
There is always some madness in love. But there is also always some reason in madness.
After another moment's silence, she mumbled that I was peculiar, that that was probably why she loved me but that one day I might disgust her for the very same reason.
The heart has its reasons which the mind cannot comprehend.
To live is to love; all reason is against it; instinct is for it.
Part of the reason that men seem so much less loving than women is that men's behavior is measured with a feminine ruler.
I don't know, I guess I figured out that in a relationship you can't choose when you want to like this person or that one...you're in a relationship for a reason and you need to stick with it or give it up. And I'm not ready to give it up.
One should always be in love. This is the reason why one should never marry.
They love their land, because it is their own, And scorn to give aught other reason why; Would shake hands with a king upon his throne, And think it kindness to his majesty.
I am the inferior of any man whose rights I trample under foot. Men are not superior by reason of the accidents of race or color. They are superior who have the best heart--the best brain. The superior man ... stands erect by bending above the fallen. He rises by lifting others.
Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.
If you made a list of reasons why any couple got married, and another list of the reasons for their divorce, you'd have a lot of overlapping.
Medicine, the only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its existence.
The only profession that labors incessantly to destroy the reason for its own existence.
Memory is the cabinet of the imagination, the treasury of reason, the registry of conscience, and, the council chamber of thought.
Fools give you reasons, wise men never try.
