Quotes on Reason

There's a company behind every stock and a reason companies - and their stocks - perform the way they do.

Think of one person who you are tempted for any reason to withhold love from, and pray for their happiness. In that moment your pain will stop.

God planted a dream in your heart for a reason. No one else can dream it for you. No one else will accomplish it for you.

Remember to connect with people now and then. In fact, pick up the phone, right now, and call a friend for no other reason than to say hi.

I do not believe that all books will or should migrate onto screens: as Douglas Adams once pointed out to me, more than 20 years before the Kindle turned up, a physical book is like a shark. Sharks are old: there were sharks in the ocean before the dinosaurs. And the reason there are still sharks around is that sharks are better at being sharks than anything else is.

To play the trumpet, you must train your lips for a long time. When I was twelve or thirteen I was a good player, but I lost the skill and now I play very badly. I do it every day even so. The reason is that I want to return to my childhood. For me, the trumpet is evidence of the sort of young man I was.

Reason is intuition's servant.

Now it is characteristic of play that one plays without reason and there must be no reason for it. Play is its own good reason.

We must put up with our clothes as they are - they have their reason for existing. They are on us to expose us - to advertise what we wear them to conceal. They are a sign; a sign of insincerity; a sign of suppressed vanity; a pretense that we desire gorgeous colors and the graces of harmony and form; and we put them on to propagate that lie and back it up.

Nothing I did where the only reason for doing it was the money was ever worth it, except as bitter experience.

The reason I've been able to be so financially successful is my focus has never, ever for one minute been money.

One of the reasons that art is important to me is sometimes it actually feels more coherent than life. It orders the chaos.

The only reason race matters is because of racism.

The primary reason for failure is that people do not develop new _x000D_ plans to replace those plans that didn't work.

When reason and unreason come into contact, an electrical shock occurs. This is called polemics.

From my experience with wild apples, I can understand that there may be reason for a savage's preferring many kinds of food which the civilized man rejects. The former has the palate of an outdoor man. It takes a savage or wild taste to appreciate a wild fruit.

There is no reason to believe ... that the "essential purpose" of language is "communication". Language can be used to transmit information, but it also serves many other purposes: to establish relations among people, to express or clarify thought, for play, for creative mental activity, to gain understanding, and so on. In my opinion, there is no reason to accord privileged status to one or the other of these modes.

One of the reasons the rich get richer, the poor get poorer and the middle class struggles in debt is because the subject of money is taught at home, not at school.

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

As a church we must love Jesus, or else we have lost our reason for existence.

For whatever reason, not all people are born with the particular gift of being able to express ourselves through music. And, believe me, it is a gift.