The wise are instructed by reason, average minds by experience, the stupid by necessity and the brute by instinct.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

He only employs his passion who can make no use of his reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Virtue is a habit of the mind, consistent with nature and moderation and reason.
Marcus Tullius Cicero

Whiskey - I like it, I always did, and that is the reason I never use it.
Robert E. Lee

Gentiles are people who eat mayonnaise for no reason.
Robin Williams

Childhood is the sleep of reason.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

We are born weak, we need strength; helpless, we need aid; foolish, we need reason. All that we lack at birth, all that we need when we come to man's estate, is the gift of education.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

The first step towards vice is to shroud innocent actions in mystery, and whoever likes to conceal something sooner or later has reason to conceal it.
Jean Jacques Rousseau

I have not lost faith in God. I have moments of anger and protest. Sometimes I've been closer to him for that reason.
Elie Wiesel

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

I think the reason I don't read is because, when I'm reading, I feel like I'm missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where's my girlfriend?
Adam Sandler

Sometimes the road less traveled is less traveled for a reason.
Jerry Seinfeld

I think the reason I am important is that I know everything.
Gertrude Stein

Because one doesn't like the way things are is no reason to be unjust towards God.
Victor Hugo

I learned how important it is to entertain people and give them a reason to come and watch you play.
Elvis Presley

Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon.
Alexander Pope

The ruling passion, be it what it will. The ruling passion conquers reason still.
Alexander Pope

In spite of all the yearnings of men, no one can produce a single fact or reason to support the belief in God and in personal immortality.
Clarence Darrow

The reason most people don't express their individuality and actually deny it, is not fear of what prime ministers think of us or the head of the federal reserve, It's what their families and their friends down at the bar are going to think of them.
David Icke

I write for the same reason I breathe - because if I didn't, I would die.
Isaac Asimov