Quotes of Rationale - somelinesforyou

“ Contrariwise... if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. ”

- Lewis Carroll

“ People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons. ”

- Zig Ziglar

“ There is no reason why humanity cannot be served equally by weighty and trivial motives. ”

- Eric Hoffer

“ A man always has two reasons for doing anything: a good reason and the real reason. ”

- J. P. Morgan

“ I don't see any reason to quit playing. I'll be doing this at least till I get to a hundred and something. You know, I ain't got far to go. But I'm still going to be playing, as long as I have good ideas, and can play as I do. ”

- Claude Williams

“ I cannot help it; reason has nothing to do with it; I love her against reason — but who would as soon love me for my own sake, as she would love the beggar at the corner. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ How dreadful!" cried Lord Henry. "I can stand brute force, but brute reason is quite unbearable. There is something unfair about its use. It is hitting below the intellect. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ His reasons are as two grains of wheat his in two bushels of chaff: you shall seek all day ere you find them, and when you have them, they are not worth the search. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ The heart has its reasons which reason knows nothing of. ”

- Blaise Pascal

“ A person usually has two reasons for doing something: a good reason and the real reason. ”

- Thomas Carlyle

“ The Law... is perfection of reason. ”

- Sir Edward Coke

“ Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Love is divine only and difficult always. If you think it is easy you are a fool. If you think it is natural you are blind. It is a learned application without reason or motive except that it is God. ”

- Toni Morrison

“ Come now, and let us reason together. ”

- Bible

“ Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting lies. ”

- Alexander Pope

“ I'll not listen to reason. Reason always means what someone else has got to say. ”

- Elizabeth Gaskell

“ You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form. ”

- Pierre Bonnard

“ So if we want reasons of self-interest as to why it's important that we commit ourselves to Afghanistan for the long term, I think those reasons are there in abundance. ”

- Tony Blair

“ Of course there may well be particular reasons why Spencer rather than others is dead, as there were also particular reasons why he rather than others made such a stir. ”

- Talcott Parsons

“ Everything happens for a reason, although I'm not sure what that reason is yet. ”

- John Leslie

“ I see no reason why Tiger Woods won't become a great player. Man, can he smoke some shots. A little refinement on Tiger's short game and there'll be nothing. He's already pretty darn imposing. ”

- Corey Pavin

“ Sir, you are giving a reason for it, but that will not make it right. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ I'm driven. I am. I'm driven for some reason. But I don't know where I'm going. ”

- Courtney Love

“ An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason. ”

- C. S. Lewis

“ It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. ”

- Irwin Edman

“ Metaphysics is the finding of bad reasons for what we believe upon instinct; but to find these reasons is no less an instinct. ”

- Francis Herbert Bradley

“ Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. ”

- Nicola Abbagnano

“ Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count. ”

- Dr. Robert Anthony

“ Waiting is a trap. There will always be reasons to wait. The truth is, there are only two things in life, reasons and results, and reasons simply don't count. ”

- Robert Anthony

“ Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. ”

- Claude Levi Strauss
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