Norton Juster Quotes

I try to give'em a reason, you see. It helps folks if they can latch onto a reason.

REASON, n. Propensitate of prejudice.

There is a reason for everything.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

There's always a reason for everything.

Anything I do, I always have a reason for.

When something happens, we always say it happens for a reason.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

I always have a reason for why I do something.

I understand HOW. I do not understand WHY

There are occasions and causes, why and wherefore in all things.

Reason is a bee, and exists only on what it makes; his usefulness takes the place of beauty.

But they were wrong. There was a reason.

Every why has a wherefore.

Every why hath a wherefore.

A fact is like a sack - it won't stand up if it's empty. To make it stand up, first you have to put in it all the reasons and feelings that caused it in the first place.

People need meanings to everything. People want you to intellectualize every choice you make.

Why is this thus? What is the reason for this thusness?

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.

Science is not the means by which we come to understand why physical laws and circumstances are the way they are. When we ask why - assuming the question is really 'why' and not 'how' - we are really asking to know the motive of some responsible agent capable of reason.

I do not know what arguments mean in reference to any expression of a thought. I delight in telling what I think; but if you ask me how I dare say so, or why it is so, I am the most helpless of men.

Nihil est sine ratione. There is nothing without a reason.

Live in the world you inhabit. Look upon things as they are. Take them as you find them. Make the best of them. Turn them to your advantage.

Hope likes justification, but can do without.

Reason? That dreary shed, that hutch for grubby schoolboys.