Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire

All which is beautiful and noble is the result of reason and calculation.
Charles Baudelaire

Sometimes the right thing gets done for the wrong reason and sometimes, unfortunately, the wrong thing gets done for the right reason.
James Carville

In all private quarrels the duller nature is triumphant by reason of dullness.
George Eliot

Thinking begins only when we have come to know that reason, glorified for centuries, is the stiff-necked adversary of thought.
Martin Heidegger

I am doing my best to find it. I will find it before the public finds it. I will get out of it before it's too late. The reason I will do that is because that's what I'm paid to do.
Jim Cramer

The reason men oppose progress is not that they hate progress, but that they love inertia.
Elbert Hubbard

One of the guys that used to run it - for some reason I've no idea why he used to call me the Sea Monster and I was just looking around for a name and thought that'll do. That lasted for a couple of years probably.
Jo Brand

The reason I used a name was because I was a nurse at the time, and I didn't want my name in Timeout and people from working coming along and taking the piss.
Jo Brand

I'm sure some cynical people would point to that as the main reason for doing it for a lot of people.
Jo Brand

Sarcasm I now see to be, in general, the language of the devil; for which reason I have long since as good as renounced it.
Thomas Carlyle

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
Thomas Carlyle

Some men have thousands of reasons why they cannot do what they want to, when all they need is one reason why they can.
Martha Graham

There's no reason for the establishment to fear me. But it has every right to fear the people collectively - I am one with the people.
Huey Newton

I believe that we must reach our brother, never toning down our fundamental oppositions, but meeting him when he asks to be met, with a reason for the faith that is in us, as well as with a loving sympathy for them as brothers.
Dorothy Day

The obstinacy of cleverness and reason is nothing to the obstinacy of folly and inanity.
Harriet Beecher Stowe

Happiness exists on earth, and it is won through prudent exercise of reason, knowledge of the harmony of the universe, and constant practice of generosity.
Jose Marti

This is the beauty of the Qur'an: it asks you to reflect and reason, and not to worship the sun or moon but the One who has created everything. The Qur'an asks man to reflect upon the sun and moon and God's creation in general.
Cat Stevens

I found a religion that blended scientific reason with spiritual reality in a unifying faith far removed from the headlines of violence, destruction and terrorism.
Cat Stevens

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