Reasonable Quotes

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A reasonable man needs only to practice moderation to find happiness. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A reasonable probability is the only certainty. — E. W. Howe
An act of God was defined as something which no reasonable man could have expected. — A. P. Herbert
Everyone has the right to rest and leisure, including reasonable limitation of working hours and periodic holidays with pay. — Eleanor Roosevelt
If happiness is activity in accordance with excellence, it is reasonable that it should be in accordance with the highest excellence. — Aristotle
It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles. — Blaise Pascal
Man, being made reasonable, and so a thinking creature, there is nothing more worthy of his being than the right direction and employment of his… — William Penn
Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw
Reasonable orders are easy enough to obey; it is capricious, bureaucratic or plain idiotic demands that form the habit of discipline. — Barbara Tuchman
The happiest time in a man's life is when he is in the red hot pursuit of a dollar with a reasonable prospect of overtaking… — Josh Billings
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. — Friedrich Durrenmatt
The wrong way always seems the more reasonable. — George A. Moore
You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren't perfect. — Jaclyn Smith
Because your brain uses information from the areas around the blind spot to make a reasonable guess about what the blind spot would see if… — Daniel Gilbert
Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.… — E. O. Wilson
Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter. — Orson Scott Card
Were parties here divided merely by a greediness for office,...to take a part with either would be unworthy of a reasonable or moral man. — Thomas Jefferson
The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence. — Alexander Hamilton
Anyone taken as an individual is tolerably sensible and reasonable - as a member of a crowd, he at once becomes a blockhead. — Friedrich Schiller
What I remember most clearly was that when I put down a suggestion that seemed to me cogent and reasonable, Einstein did not in the… — Hermann Bondi

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