Reason Quotes - page 2

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak. (Michel de Montaigne)
Intellect distinguishes between the possible and the impossible; reason distinguishes between the sensible and the senseless. Even the possible can be senseless. View quote
Max Born
God does not die on the day when we cease to believe in a personal deity, but we die on the day when our lives cease to be illumined by the steady radiance, renewed daily, of a wonder, the source of which is beyond all reason. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
There is a fundamental difference between religion, which is based on authority and science, which is based on observation and reason. Science will win, because it works. View quote
Stephen Hawking
Why has government been instituted at all? Because the passions of men will not conform to the dictates of reason and justice, without constraint. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Women need a reason to have sex, men just need a place. View quote
Billy Crystal
Remembering that I'll be dead soon is the most important tool I've ever encountered to help me make the big choices in life. Because almost everything - all external expectations, all pride, all fear of embarrassment or failure - these things just fall away in the face of death, leaving only what is truly important. Remembering that you are going to die is the best way I know to avoid the trap of thinking you have something to lose. You are already naked. There is no reason not to follow your heart. View quote
Steve Jobs
To live is like to love - all reason is against it, and all healthy instinct for it. View quote
Samuel Butler (novelist)
I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die. View quote
Isaac Asimov
The sleep of reason produces monsters. View quote
Francisco Goya
What a piece of work is a man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and moving how express and admirable, in action how like an angel, in apprehension how like a god. (William Shakespeare)
Mathematicians have tried in vain to this day to discover some order in the sequence of prime numbers, and we have reason to believe that it is a mystery into which the human mind will never penetrate. View quote
Leonhard Euler
The lecturer should give the audience full reason to believe that all his powers have been exerted for their pleasure and instruction. View quote
Michael Faraday
Reason is the enemy of faith. View quote
Martin Luther
It is easier to be a lover than a husband, for the same reason that it is more difficult to show a ready wit all day long than to produce an occasional bon mot. View quote
Honoré de Balzac
All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. View quote
Aristotle
The reason grandparents and grandchildren get along so well is that they have a common enemy. View quote
Sam Levenson
Chemistry has been termed by the physicist as the messy part of physics, but that is no reason why the physicists should be permitted to make a mess of chemistry when they invade it. View quote
Frederick Soddy
He that rebels against reason is a real rebel, but he that in defence of reason rebels against tyranny has a better title to Defender of the Faith, than George the Third. View quote
Thomas Paine
Destiny is something not be to desired and not to be avoided. a mystery not contrary to reason, for it implies that the world, and the course of human history, have meaning. View quote
Dag Hammarskjöld
The power of the people and the power of reason are one. (Georg Büchner)
Constitutions should consist only of general provisions; the reason is that they must necessarily be permanent, and that they cannot calculate for the possible change of things. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
Much reading is an oppression of the mind, and extinguishes the natural candle, which is the reason of so many senseless scholars in the world. View quote
William Penn
I finally figured out the only reason to be alive is to enjoy it. View quote
Rita Mae Brown
Could I say that the reason that I am here today, you know, from the mouth of the State Department itself, is: I should not be allowed to travel because I have struggled for years for the independence of the colonial peoples of Africa. View quote
Paul Robeson
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