Reason Quotes

A man's mind is wont to tell him more than seven watchmen sitting in a tower.
Rudyard Kipling

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
A. N. Wilson

A sure way to lose happiness, I found, is to want it at the expense of everything else.
Bette Davis

Humor is reason gone mad.

Life must be lived and curiosity kept alive. One must never, for whatever reason, turn his back on life.

A man is not idle because he is absorbed in thought. There is a visible labor and there is an invisible labor.

Education is the leading of human souls to what is best, and making what is best out of them.

It is easy enough to say that poverty is no crime. No; if it were men wouldn't be ashamed of it. It is a blunder, though, and is punished as such.
Jerome K. Jerome

Anyone who has begun to think, places some portion of the world in jeopardy.
John Dewey

To be or not to be isn't the question. The question is how to prolong being.
Tom Robbins

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Bill Cosby

I guess the real reason that my wife and I had children is the same reason that Napoleon had for invading Russia: it seemed like a good idea at the time.
Bill Cosby

Poets have said that the reason to have children is to give yourself immortality. Immortality? Now that I have five children, my only hope is that they are all out of the house before I die.
Bill Cosby

The only person who is educated is the one who has learned how to learn and change.
Carl Rogers

A long habit of not thinking a thing wrong gives it a superficial appearance of being right.

Art is the human disposition of sensible or intelligible matter for an esthetic end.
Milan Kundera

Given a choice between grief and nothing, I'd choose grief.
William Faulkner

Any excuse will serve a tyrant.
Aesop

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.
Milan Kundera

How can you close me up? On what grounds.
Humphrey Bogart

Freedom of opinion can only exist when the government thinks itself secure.

All of our reasoning ends in surrender to feeling.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

As soon as questions of will or decision or reason or choice of action arise, human science is at a loss.
Noam Chomsky

Aim above morality. Be not simply good, be good for something.

We think too much and feel too little.

I don't believe that the public knows what it wants; this is the conclusion that I have drawn from my career.

All the reasonings of men are not worth one sentiment of women.

Being an intellectual creates a lot of questions and no answers.
Janis Joplin

The real problem is not whether machines think but whether men do.
B. F. Skinner

Yet consider now, whether women are not quite past sense and reason, when they want to rule over men.
John Calvin

I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Lucille Ball

Circumstances rule men; men do not rule circumstances.
Herodotus

I still think people do have racial hang-ups, but I think one of the reasons I can joke about it is people are shedding those racial hatreds.
Dave Chappelle

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.
Immanuel Kant

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.
Immanuel Kant

When you look at Prince Charles, don't you think that someone in the Royal family knew someone in the Royal family?

A man may fulfill the object of his existence by asking a question he cannot answer, and attempting a task he cannot achieve.

Compromise is the best and cheapest lawyer.

Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
Rainer Maria Rilke

We all live with the objective of being happy; our lives are all different and yet the same.
Anne Frank

In my early days, I was eager to learn and to do things, and therefore I learned quickly.
Sitting Bull

A subject for a great poet would be God's boredom after the seventh day of creation.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.
John Locke

Where all is but dream, reasoning and arguments are of no use, truth and knowledge nothing.
John Locke

The privilege of absurdity; to which no living creature is subject, but man only.

We are certainly in a common class with the beasts; every action of animal life is concerned with seeking bodily pleasure and avoiding pain.

If I was a sex symbol, I would be getting laid a lot more than I am now.
Moby

It is error alone which needs the support of government. Truth can stand by itself.

My body is like breakfast, lunch, and dinner. I don't think about it, I just have it.