Unreasonable Quotes

184 Unreasonable quotes by 155 unique authors

We worried about competitors, but it was an unreasonable fear. As a friend once pointed out, most gunshot wounds are self-inflicted. — Philip Greenspun
Since the date, 1776, is placed on the bottom course of the pyramid [on the Great Seal], and since the number 13 has been so… — Unknown Author
We know what you want to accomplish... The real question is, 'what are you willing to push through the dip for?' What are you willing… — Seth Godin
It is the mark of an educated mind to expect that amount of exactness which the nature of the particular subject admits. It is equally… — Aristotle
It is unreasonable to think we can earn rewards without being willing to pay their true price. It is always our choice whether or not… — Epictetus
Unreasonable is very relative. — Lakshmi Pratury
Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But they require commitment… — Charles Krauthammer
A monomaniac is a sick person whose mentality is perfectly healthy in all respects but one; he has a single flaw, clearly localized. At times,… — Emile Durkheim
The truth frequently seems unreasonable; the truth frequently is depressing; the truth sometimes seems to be evil, but it has the eternal advantage, it is… — Henry Ford
Woman suffrage is an unjust, unreasonable, unspiritual abnormality. It is a hard, undigested, tasteless, devitalized proposition. It is a half-fledged, unmusical, Promethean abomination. It is… — John Boyle O'Reilly
To get something new done you have to be stubborn and focused, to the point that others might find unreasonable. — Jeff Bezos
People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building… — Mother Teresa
Big Dreams start with small unreasonable acts — Adam Braun
Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind. — Jerry Bridges
All progress depends upon the unreasonable person. — George Bernard Shaw
Finally one should add that in spite of the great complexity of protein synthesis and in spite of the considerable technical difficulties in synthesizing polynucleotides… — Francis Crick
In a world threatened by a famine of righteousness and spiritual starvation, we have been commanded to sustain the prophet. As we give heed to,… — Carol F. McConkie
For some reason, I grew up generally believing that Japan and Korea were quite friendly. I do know that there is some bad history and… — Joichi Ito
Rousseau had it backwards. We are NOT born free. We are born in the chains of the random and the reflexive, and are ignorant and… — Richard Mitchell
To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported. — Epictetus
It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures. — Potter Stewart
I have tried, with little success, to get some of my friends to understand my amazement that the abstraction of integers for counting is both… — Richard Hamming
I see nothing wrong ethically with the idea of correcting single gene defects through genetic engineering. But I am concerned about any other kind of… — Ian Wilmut
It is but refusing to gratify an unreasonable or an insolent demand, and up starts a patriot. — Robert Walpole
Nothing drives your opponents more crazy than being utterly reasonable. And nothing makes demonizing or delegitimizing your opponents easier than letting them shriek unreasonable things… — Jonah Goldberg

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