Unreasonable," "unrealistic," and "impractical" are all words used to marginalize a person or idea that fails to conform with conventionally expected standards. — Chris Guillebeau Copy Share Image
Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet… — David Chalmers Copy Share Image
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you… — Mother Teresa Copy Share Image
The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It… — Christine Jennings Copy Share Image
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits.… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind. — Jerry Bridges Copy Share Image
Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural,… — Abbott Eliot Kittredge Copy Share Image
A [Jewish] woman could not divorce her husband, but she could petition for divorce, and the religious courts could force him to… — Israel Shenker Copy Share Image
Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'. They were convicted for being… — Jostein Gaarder Copy Share Image
A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man. — Mark Kac Copy Share Image
I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while. — George Steinbrenner Copy Share Image
Never did she find anything so difficult as to keep herself from losing her temper when she was suddenly disturbed while absorbed… — Frances Hodgson Burnett Copy Share Image
Human progress depends on unreasonable people. Reasonable people accept the world as they meet it; unreasonable people persist in trying to change… — Bob Geldof Copy Share Image
Love is like a tree: it grows by itself, roots itself deeply in our being and continues to flourish over a heart… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
Disturbingly, the First Amendment, along with the Fourth Amendment - protecting against unreasonable searches and seizures, and requiring warrants - have been… — Chelsea Manning Copy Share Image
Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but… — Russell M. Nelson Copy Share Image
Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable… — Dan Millman Copy Share Image
It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
“We’re not talking about you. You’re Braith of the Darkness. I’m Addolgar the Cheerful. I’ve earned this name, and you’re ruining it… — G.A. Aiken Copy Share Image
Whenever I felt tempted to, I don’t know, watch cat videos or bad Netflix TV instead of writing this Brandeis biography, I… — Jeffrey Rosen Copy Share Image
To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as… — George Trumbull Ladd Copy Share Image
“When reading the history of the Jewish people, of their flight from slavery to death, of their exchange of tyrants, I must… — Robert G. Ingersoll Copy Share Image
Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is… — Gustave de Molinari Copy Share Image