Quotes About Reason

Learn good-humor, never to oppose without just reason; abate some degree of pride and moroseness.

What is guilt? Guilt is the pledge drive constantly hammering in our heads that keeps us from fully enjoying the show. Guilt is the reason they put the articles in Playboy.

My experience is that people are most likely to listen to reason when in bed.

If you want to feel good, be rational.

Humor is the balance of the tonal. Within the tonal you've got reason and humor. The two balance each other so that the tonal can accept and understand the journeys into the nagual.

There is no reason to feel embarrassed, Krysta.""Easy for you to say! You weren't caught mentally checking out my package!"~ Étienne and Krysta

Let us talk about oxymoron, common sense, for instance.

Are you here for a reason, Cheshire?Why, yes, I would enjoy a cup of tea. I take mine with lots of cream, and no tea. Thank you.

Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a cheeseburger.

People keep making excuses, that's why everthing happens for a reason.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live.

Reason is nothing without imagination.

Camus says in 'The Stranger' that reason is the enemy of imagination. Sometimes you have to put reason aside and make something beautiful.

Imagination does not breed insanity. Exactly what does breed insanity is reason. Poets do not go mad, but chess players do.

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

When we use our imagination properly it is our greatest friend; it goes belyond reason and is the only light that takes us everywhere.

For me, reason is the natural organ of truth; but imagination is the organ of meaning. Imagination, producing new metaphors or revivifying old, is not the cause of truth, but its condition.

You have all the reason in the world to achieve your grandest dreams. Imagination plus innovation equals realization.

It is a certain rule that wit and passion are entirely incompatible. When the affections are moved, there is no place for the imagination.

To her own heart it was a delightful affair, to her imagination it was even a ridiculous one, but to her reason, her judgment, it was completely a puzzle.

What is the imagination? Only an arm or weapon of the interior energy; only the precursor of the reason.

Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.

Where my reason, imagination or interest were not engaged, I would not or I could not learn.