It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.

I took the plug out of the chemical bath of lust that my wits were soaking in and waited for it to empty. I smoked a cigarette while I contemplated the return of reason.

The system keeps going down and the reason for that is not all Medicare part D enrollees have received their cards. It’s created a surge in capacity. It’s one database being used for the entire...

It opens the mind toward an understanding of humannature and destiny. It increases wisdom. It is the veryessence of that much misinterpreted concept, a liberaleducation. It is the foremost approach to humanism,the lore of the...

Ignorance is a virus. Once it starts spreading, it can only be cured by reason. For the sake of humanity, we must be that cure.

I am not a lover of Israel, of course. I have no reason to be. But I don’t hate Jews.

There?s no need to panic. We have to advise the European public to stay calm. There?s no reason not to consume chicken.

I wish I could pinpoint that (the reason) because that’s the one thing I highlighted to the team; we need to get off on a good start. I don’t know if there needs to be...

Use your own reason to find the truth. And to do this, you must first get rid of the myths that your culture injected to your brain!

One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Theology is ignorance with wings.

Baseball gets better for whatever reason.

There were no scruples, no feelings of respect or loyal affection that would stop us from making up our minds by the pure light of reason – and of our own desires.

The main reason I write the daily observations is because I want to know where I’m wrong. So lots of times if somebody points something out it helps me, and I want to have a...

The reason so many people never get anywhere in life is because when opportunity knocks, they are out in the backyard looking for four-leaf clovers.

In the woods, we return to reason and faith. There I feel that nothing can befall me in life, — no disgrace, no calamity, (leaving me my eyes,) which nature cannot repair.

If you’ve been on the covers of some magazines and been in a few movies that have been seen by people, for some reason, women seem to be drawn to you.

I think that ‘Mr. Show’ was a huge influence on me. It was literally the reason I started doing comedy, because I was asked to do a bit at The Comedy Store, and B.J. Porter...

Atheists are my brothers and sisters of a different faith, and every word they speak speaks of faith. Like me, they go as far as the legs of reason will carry them — and then...

But there is no obvious reason for holding that some normal adults are entitled to make choices for other normal adults, as paternalists of both left and right believe.

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance

Let them stand undisturbed as monuments of the safety with which error of opinion may be tolerated, where reason is left free to combat it

There is no reason inherent in the real resources available to us why we cannot move rapidly within the next two or three years to a state of genuine full employment.

We either base our ‘confidence’ on reason (evident probabilities, past experience, competence, etc) or we base our beliefs on faith, which is blind by definition. Faith is the most dishonest position it is possible to...

I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.

Feeling lost, crazy and desperate belongs to a good life as much as optimism, certainty and reason.

The big reason why we don’t have space colonies and regular trips to the moon is that flying into outer space is just plain ‘hard.’ The business of safely transporting people off the Earth is...

I studied mathematics which is the madness of reason.

Rail longer than train cars ; and the hope than our reasons. (Rail plus long que les wagons ; – Et l’espoir que nos raisons.)

For my part, I prefer the ontological argument, the cosmological argument and the rest of the old stock-in-trade, to the sentimental illogicality that has sprung from Rousseau.

Surviving is one thing,” he said quietly, his voice suddenly calmer, “but you’ve got to have a reason to do it. There’s no point in living if you don’t have anything worth living for.

The reason why I started the clothing line Licious is because I had trouble finding clothes for my body type. I figured if I’m having trouble finding clothes for me, being curvy, I know girls...

It’s against reason,” said Filby.”What reason?” said the Time Traveller.

For some reason, with Albert coming up to the plate, you just felt good about the situation, … You can sit there and end your season on saying, ‘Hey, he got him out’ or ‘Albert...

If one should criticize one should always have a meaningful explanation to accompany.

I figured there was no reason to lie. I told them I just escaped.

Fortitude is the marshal of thought, the armor of the will, and the fort of reason.

In my eyes, I think it’s important that if you’re doing something you’re proud of and that is genuine and authentic, you have a responsibility to bring that to as many people as possible, just...

As a poet and as a mathematician, he would reason well; as a mere mathematician, he could not have reasoned at all.

Fate is the endless chain of causation, whereby things are; the reason or formula by which the world goes on.

If Nord Stream was built in Europe, I see no reason why South Stream cannot be built as well.

It doesn’t matter why I want to leave. You’re the reason I want to stay.

For whatever reason, we wouldn’t pull the trigger. We weren’t being aggressive.

Tragedy is restful: and the reason is that hope, that foul, deceitful thing, has no part in it.

A spirit, breathing the language of independence, is natural to Englishmen, few of whom are disposed to brook compulsion, or submit to the dictates of others, when not softened by reason, or tempered with kindness.

Reason is a whore, the greatest enemy that faith has; it never comes to the aid of spiritual things, but more frequently than not struggles against the divine Word, treating with contempt all that emanates...

Humans always love and hate each other for a reason; beauty or talent, hard working or wealth. If you want to be loved give them a reason.

There is a reason it used to be a crime in the Confederate states to teach a slave to read: Literacy is power.

Mel exhaled. “Why are you forcing me into the voice-of-reason role? You know that never works out for us.

Emotion lay at the very heart of the process of perception, intertwined with intellectual functions, yet adding to perception a quality that reason lacked.