All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsion, habit, reason, passion, and desire.

All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

And that is the reason why this victory is great, because different players have made contributions to the win.

Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

Believe nothing, no matter where you read it, or who said it, no matter if I have said it, unless it agrees with your own reason and your own common sense.

Common looking people are the best in the world: that is the reason the Lord makes so many of them.

Do not seek the because - in love there is no because, no reason, no explanation, no solutions.

Do you have to have a reason for loving?

Early in life I had to choose between honest arrogance and hypocritical humility. I chose the former and have seen no reason to change.

Eventually all things fall into place. Until then, laugh at the confusion, live for the moments, and know everything happens for a reason.

Faith and Reason are like two wings of the human spirit by which is soars to the truth

Faith is a commitment to belief contrary to evidence and reason.

Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted, in spite of your changing moods.

Good advice is always certain to be ignored, but that's no reason not to give it.

Government is not reason, it is not eloquence it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and fearful master.

Happiness for a reason is just another form of misery because the reason can be taken away from us at any time.

Happiness is not an ideal of reason, but of imagination.

He alone is free who lives with free consent under the entire guidance of reason.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Here's all you have to know about men and women: women are crazy, men are stupid. And the main reason women are crazy is that men are stupid.

Humanity is acquiring all the right technology for all the wrong reasons.

I believe that everything happens for a reason. People change so that you can learn to let go, things go wrong so that you appreciate them when they're right, you believe lies so you eventually learn to trust no one but yourself, and sometimes good things fall apart so better things can fall together.

I can see in your eyes, I can see in your faces, I can see you cry. But what I want to say, there's no reason to cry. Do not, in the name of peace, go in the streets and riot.

I have had good experience and trial of this world...I know what it is to be a subject, what to be a sovereign, what to have good neighbours, and sometimes meet evil willers. I have found treason in trust, seen great benefits little regarded.

I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.

I trust that everything happens for a reason, even if we are not wise enough to see it.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few

In Hinduism, conscience, reason and independent thinking have no scope for development.

It is hard to fight desire; but to control it is the sign of a reasonable man.

Losing your way on a journey is unfortunate. But, losing your reason for the journey is a fate more cruel.

Love doesn't need reason. It speaks from the irrational wisdom of the heart.

Man is to be found in reason, God in the passions.

Money is better than poverty, if only for financial reasons.

Never let the future disturb you. You will meet it, if you have to, with the same weapons of reason which today arm you against the present.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not common.

No power so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving.

Patriotism is the willingness to kill and be killed for trivial reasons.

Question with boldness even the existence of God; because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason than that of blindfolded fear.

Science is not only a disciple of reason but, also, one of romance and passion.

Strength of mind rests in sobriety; for this keeps your reason unclouded by passion.

The abdomen is the reason why man does not easily take himself for a god.

The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason.

The difference between the love of a man and the love of a woman is that a man will always give reasons for loving, but a woman gives no reasons for loving.

The fishermen know that the sea is dangerous and the storm terrible, but they have never found these dangers sufficient reason for remaining ashore.

The heart has its reasons which reason knows not.

The major reason for setting a goal is for what it makes of you to accomplish it. What it makes of you will always be the far greater value than what you get.

The reason fat men are good natured is they can neither fight nor run.

The reason I talk to myself is because Im the only one whose answers I accept.

The trouble is that people seem to expect happiness in life. I can't imagine why; but they do. They are unhappy before they marry, and they imagine to themselves that the reason of their unhappiness will be removed when they are married. When it isn't they blame the other person, which is clearly absurd. I believe that is what generally starts the trouble.

The ultimate authority must always rest with the individual's own reason and critical analysis.

The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.

Thinking is the hardest work there is, which is probably the reason so few engage in it.

To announce that there must be no criticism of the President, or that we are to stand by the President, right or wrong, is not only unpatriotic and servile, but is morally treasonable to the American public.

To withdraw is not to run away - and to stay is no wise action - when there's more reason to fear than to hope.

Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy.

You don't reason with intellectuals. You shoot them.