Reasonable Quotes

815 quotes by 631 authors

The real trouble with this world of ours is not that it is an unreasonable world, nor even that it is a reasonable one. The… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing. — Sigmund Freud
The earth has enough knowledge and resources to eradicate this ancient scourge. Hunger has plagued the world for thousands of years. But ending it is… — George McGovern
Nervous exhaustion from mental overwork is most often due to neglect of this rule and the brain worker should limit his regular day's work to… — Unknown Author
While there have been great technological advances in the study of the brain, yielding enormous amounts of data on its physical and psychological characteristics, the… — Michael Gazzaniga
At the time of Galileo the Church remained much more reasonable than Galileo himself. The process against Galileo was reasonable and just. — Pope Benedict XVI
You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt. — Edwin Meese
A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly. — Mary Wortley Montagu
The first thing the reasonable man must do is to be content with a very little knowledge and a very great deal of ignorance. The… — Arthur David Ritchie
It seems reasonable to envision, for a time 10 or 15 years hence, a "thinking center" that will incorporate the functions of present-day libraries together… — J. C. R. Licklider
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of; it heightens… — Joseph Addison
You know what you are actually in love with? Integrity. The impossible. The clean, consistent, reasonable, self-faithful, the all-of-one-style, like a work of art. — Ayn Rand
Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Try for a goal that's reasonable, then gradually raise it. — Emil Zatopek
The sceptic will say, 'It may well be true that this system of equations is reasonable from a logical standpoint, but this does not prove… — Albert Einstein
Any man who is intelligent must, on considering that health is of the utmost value to human beings, have the personal understanding necessary to help… — Hippocrates
Today I will stop trying to control my relationships. I will participate at a reasonable level and let the other person do the same. I… — Melody Beattie
We are not only less reasonable and less decent in our dreams... we are also more inteligent, wiser and capable of better judgment when we… — Erich Fromm
You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don't stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream… — Jesse Jackson
When a violent minority that crosses color lines comes to believe that killing those you know or do not know is a reasonable solution to… — Stanley Crouch

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