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Quotes About Reason

The best reason to diminish social programs is not to put more money in people's pockets but to put more responsibility in people's pockets.
~ Mark Steyn
If we raise taxes on corporations, what incentive will they have to make money other than the fact that it's the sole reason they exist.
~ Stephen Colbert
I like to go from mainstream movies to more artsy films. I don't sign on for the money. Maybe I should, but I don't. There's always a good reason for doing something.
~ Famke Janssen
Never say never. For the right reason, over the years I've been auctioning off masks for charity and it's always for a good cause. I think you would regret it if you just sold it for money.
~ Henrik Lundqvist
You want to give people a reason to hate my guts more? I'm making more money.
~ Billy Joel
It's easy to get sidetracked with thoughts that involve much money and precious things, but before you launch into that mode, reason well.
~ Auliq Ice
Artists, as a rule, understand nothing about business, or, for some reason or other, they aren't allowed to understand anything about it.
~ Robert Walser, The Walk
Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.
~ Ambrose Bierce
The way to see by faith is to shut the eye of reason: The Morning Daylight appears plainer when you put out your Candle.
~ Benjamin Franklin
Everything is exactly as it is for a reason. The crumb on your table is no mystical reminder of this morning's cookie, it is there because you have chosen not to remove it. No exceptions.
~ Richard Bach
I like having a plot, I like characters with a reason to get up in the morning.
~ Peter Temple
The dream of reason produces monsters. Imagination deserted by reason creates impossible, useless thoughts. United with reason, imagination is the mother of all art and the source of all its beauty.
~ Francisco Goya
You know, my friends, with what a brave carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; favored old barren reason from my bed, and took the daughter of the vine to spouse.
~ Omar Khayyam
I do not believe in god because I do not believe in Mother Goose.
~ Clarence Darrow
Her heart is older than her head; yea, her emotion is the mother of her reason
~ Gelett Burgess
However we may pity the mother whose health and even life is imperiled by the performance of her natural duty, there yet remains no sufficient reason for condoning the direct murder of the innocent.
~ Pope Pius XI
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
~ George Bernard Shaw
Your dreams tell you what to do; your reason tells you how to do it.
~ Jonas Salk
To say that I am made in the image of God is to say that love is the reason for my existence, for God is love.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Movies are so rarely great art that if we cannot appreciate great trash we have very little reason to be interested in them.
~ Pauline Kael
Truly there would be reason to go mad were it not for music.
~ Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
All is beautiful and unceasing, all is music and reason, and all, like diamond, is carbon first, then light.
~ Jose Marti
The loss of music is very painful, and I don't revisit stuff unless there is a solid reason to do it.
~ John Lurie
The music is the void. And you're the reason why.
~ Gayle Forman