Reason Quotes

For every good reason there is to lie, there is a better reason to tell the truth.
Bo Bennett

Good, Truth, Lie

When you rise in the morning, give thanks for the light, for your life, for your strength. Give thanks for your food and for the joy of living. If you see no reason to give thanks, the fault lies in yourself.
Tecumseh

Life, Morning, Strength

The only reason for time is so that everything doesn't happen at once.
Albert Einstein

Time, Everything, Happen

Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master.
George Washington

Government, Fire, Dangerous

Only one who devotes himself to a cause with his whole strength and soul can be a true master. For this reason mastery demands all of a person.
Albert Einstein

Strength, True, Person

The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing.
Albert Einstein

Important, Stop, Curiosity

The true man wants two things: danger and play. For that reason he wants woman, as the most dangerous plaything.
Friedrich Nietzsche

True, Woman, Two

The main reason Santa is so jolly is because he knows where all the bad girls live.
George Carlin

Live, Bad, Knows

Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blind-folded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Fear, Question

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.
Abraham Lincoln

Best, Makes, Looking

Faith consists in believing when it is beyond the power of reason to believe.
Voltaire

Faith, Power, Believing

An error does not become truth by reason of multiplied propagation, nor does truth become error because nobody sees it.
Mahatma Gandhi

Truth, Become, Nobody

One should always be in love. That is the reason one should never marry.
Oscar Wilde

When I am getting ready to reason with a man, I spend one-third of my time thinking about myself and what I am going to say and two-thirds about him and what he is going to say.
Abraham Lincoln

Time, Thinking, Him

There must be a reason why some people can afford to live well. They must have worked for it. I only feel angry when I see waste. When I see people throwing away things that we could use.
Mother Teresa

Live, Angry, Why

Let us with caution indulge the supposition that morality can be maintained without religion. Reason and experience both forbid us to expect that national morality can prevail in exclusion of religious principle.
George Washington

Religion, Experience, Both

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.
Dalai Lama

Rest, Individual, Authority

All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire.
Aristotle

Nature, Human, Passion

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.
Thomas Jefferson

God, Fear, Opinion

I would rather trust a woman's instinct than a man's reason.
Stanley Baldwin

Trust, Woman, Rather

As our enemies have found we can reason like men, so now let us show them we can fight like men also.
Thomas Jefferson

Men, Fight, Show

I think there's every reason this 21st century will be much happier.
Dalai Lama

Century, Happier

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.
C. S. Lewis

I was bold in the pursuit of knowledge, never fearing to follow truth and reason to whatever results they led, and bearding every authority which stood in their way.
Thomas Jefferson

Truth, Knowledge, Whatever

The heart has its reasons of which reason knows nothing.
Blaise Pascal

Heart, Nothing, Knows

It only stands to reason that where there's sacrifice, there's someone collecting the sacrificial offerings. Where there's service, there is someone being served. The man who speaks to you of sacrifice is speaking of slaves and masters, and intends to be the master.
Ayn Rand

Someone, Sacrifice, Service

Errors of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.
Thomas Jefferson

May, Free, Opinion

The reason I talk to myself is that I'm the only one whose answers I accept.
George Carlin

Talk, Accept, Whose

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

Work, God, Moving

The world is indebted for all triumphs which have been gained by reason and humanity over error and oppression.
Thomas Jefferson

Humanity, Oppression, Error

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