Unreasonable Quotes
184 quotes by 162 authors
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Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.
— Henri Bergson
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I don't think people should be encouraged to look like Kate Moss; I think that's unreasonable. I think the normal human body should be glorified.…
— Anthony Bourdain
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Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before.
— Eli Broad
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It does not seem to me that the steps which would be needed to make Britain - and others - more comfortable in their relationship…
— David Cameron
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Why had we come to the moon? The thing presented itself to me as a perplexing problem. What is this spirit in man that urges…
— H.G. Wells
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Tantra is the hot blood of spiritual practice. It smashes the taboo against unreasonable happiness; a thunderbolt path, swift, joyful, and fierce. There is no…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed…
— Niccolo Machiavelli
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Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their…
— Hans Eysenck
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Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.
— Renzo Piano
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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.
— George Bernard Shaw
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Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.
— Samuel Johnson
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No American worth his salt should go around looking for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.
— Wyndham Lewis
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And that the said Constitution be never construed to authorize Congress to infringe the just liberty of the press, or the rights of conscience; or…
— Samuel Adams
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That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief…
— John Dewey
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It is unreasonable to expect science to produce a system of ethics-ethics are a kind of highway code for traffic among mankind-and the fact that…
— Sigmund Freud
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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
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The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.
— Eugene Wigner
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Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are…
— William Blackstone
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It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle.
— Brian Trubshaw
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To me it seems not unreasonable to find a re-enforcement of optimism, a renewal of courage and hope, in the modern theory that man has…
— James Russell Lowell
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