Reason quotes

Exploring the depths of human inspiration, our Reason category showcases profound and thought-provoking quotes that offer insight into life's purpose and the motivations behind our actions. Gain a deeper understanding of the whys that steer our existence.

I mean, God works in mysterious ways. So you just got to believe that when He crushes your nuts, He does it for a reason.

- Ella Lopez

The mind is furnished with ideas by experience alone.

- John Locke

No man's knowledge here can go beyond his experience.

- John Locke

It is one thing to show a man that he is in error, and another to put him in possession of truth.

- John Locke

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature.

- John Locke

Happiness is not an ideal of reason but of imagination.

- Immanuel Kant

Morality is not the doctrine of how we may make ourselves happy, but of how we may make ourselves worthy of happiness.

- Immanuel Kant

Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.

- Immanuel Kant

I'm not competing in Iowa for a reason.

- Jon Huntsman, Jr.

If man makes himself a worm he must not complain when he is trodden on.

- Immanuel Kant

I have spent more than half a lifetime trying to express the tragic moment.

- John Locke

And sometimes I'm criticized. But I think that if those who criticize us will look at the reason why the shape is this, well then, I think that they would not object so strenuously.

- Minoru Yamasaki

The rule of the game was never assume that anybody, however honorable, would be able to stand up under torture. If Mr. X, who knew where I was, was caught for some reason, I should move.

- Abraham Pais

Human salvation demands the divine disclosure of truths surpassing reason.

- Thomas Aquinas

I write of the wish that comes true - for some reason, a terrifying concept.

- James M. Cain

The end of law is not to abolish or restrain, but to preserve and enlarge freedom. For in all the states of created beings capable of law, where there is no law, there is no freedom.

- John Locke

Experience without theory is blind, but theory without experience is mere intellectual play.

- Immanuel Kant

Vanity is the quicksand of reason.

- George Sand

The only fence against the world is a thorough knowledge of it.

- John Locke

There is some reason, obviously, that you are drawn to your material, but the way in which you explore it might come to be quite different from what you would expect.

- Ann Beattie

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

- Gertrude Stein

It is easier for a tutor to command than to teach.

- John Locke

You get to a point where the factual adjudication doesn't matter because there are all these other outlets that are far less responsible, all talking about the ad, some of which have a political reason for promoting it.

- David Brock

Where there is no property there is no injustice.

- John Locke

If I didn't have my camera to remind me constantly, I am here to do this, I would eventually have slipped away, I think. I would have forgotten my reason to exist.

- Annie Leibovitz

That's probably half the reason I wanted to be in a band - I wanted to see the world.

- Jeff Ament

Treason doth never prosper: what's the reason? Why if it prosper, none dare call it treason.

- Ovid

The only reason to invest in the market is because you think you know something others don't.

- R. Foster Winans

Reverie is when ideas float in our mind without reflection or regard of the understanding.

- John Locke

The number one reason I write is to come to schools and see my readers. I would do it for free.

- Frank Murphy