Unreasonable Quotes

184 quotes by 162 authors

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable. — Henri Bergson
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
Every artist is unreasonable, because he or she is doing something that hasn't been done before. — Eli Broad
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
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
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
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
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
Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity. — Renzo Piano
All progress depends on the unreasonable man. — George Bernard Shaw
Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain. — Samuel Johnson
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
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
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
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
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
The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve. — Eugene Wigner
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
It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle. — Brian Trubshaw
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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