Quotes
Quotes about Reason
If there was no other reason for getting married that would be as good a reason as any, the way it keeps you warm in bed
People are very queer, really. If a man's a professor, for instance, they always think he's going to be ugly and untidy and bald and absent-minded, and I don't see any reason why that should be true
I got the idea that wherever you went all that would matter would be the people, and they seem to be all pretty much the same. I suppose the only real reason for travelling is to learn that all people are the same. I tell you that now, so you've no need to waste your money on travelling.
There are two good reasons for writing much, if one can. The first is the need to earn; the second is the fear of an untimely death, which will prevent the half-formed books in one's mind from being realized. We know not the day nor the hour. I may be killed in a train accident when taking this present book to my publisher in London. You can see whether or not this happened by reading the blurb on the dust jacket
... he sighed, knowing himself to be caught forever between worlds - earth and air, reason and belief, action and contemplation. Alone among all sorts of men, he embraced a poet's martyrdom
I will not make my pen servant to reason
It stands to reason you've got to have a war. Not because anybody wants it, of course, but because there's an army. An army here and an army there and armies all over the shop. Armies is for wars and war is for armies
The future, he considered, not unreasonably, lay with the young
One always has enemies. Fortunately, enemies are inimical for a diversity of reasons. They are not a united force clashing armour in the same rhythm
All our acts, reasoned and unreasoned, are selfish.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Reason can answer questions, but imagination has to ask them.
That you may fail, is not sufficient reason for not trying.
Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.
Nothing worthwhile was ever accomplished by a reasonable man.
We have forty million reasons for failure, but not a single excuse.
Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.
The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.
The heart has its reasons that the mind knows nothing of.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
I hope, there will be no Reason to doubt; Particularly, that where I am not understood, it shall be concluded, that something very useful and profound is coucht underneath.
If I have ever made any valuable discoveries, it has been owing more to patient observation than to any other reason.
The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.
