Strong reasons make strong actions.
—William Shakespeare
Sure, he that made us with such large discourse, looking before and after, gave us not that capability and god-like reason to fust in us unus'd.
—Unknown
Love has reasons which reason cannot understand.
—Blaise Pascal
Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.
—G. K. Chesterton
Of all human activities, man's listening to God is the supreme act of his reasoning and will.
—Pope Paul VI
People come into your life for a reason. They might not know it themselves, why. You might not know it. But there's a reason. There has to be.
—Joyce Carol Oates in and Flew Away
Do you have to have a reason for loving?
—Brigitte Bardot
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
—Bertrand Russell
Any war that requires the suspension of reason as a necessity for support is a bad war.
—Norman Mailer
I believe in fate, and I believe you were supposed to walk into my life.
—Ella Frank in Exquisite
There is a field where all wonderful perfections of microscope and telescope fail. All exquisite niceties of weights and measures as well as that which is behind them, the keen and driving power of the mind. No facts, however indubitably detected, no effort of reason, however magnificently maintained, can prove that Bach's music is beautiful.
—Ursula K. Le Guin in The Dispossessed
Don't ever take a fence down until you know the reason it was put up.
—G. K. Chesterton
The very essence of instinct is that it's followed independently of reason.
—Charles Darwin
We are generally the better persuaded by the reasons we discover ourselves than by those given to us by others.
—Blaise Pascal
The best reason for having dreams is that in dreams no reasons are necessary.
—Ashleigh Brilliant