Reasonableness Quotes

• Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Accomplished, Reasonable

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• I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it.

  Clint Eastwood

  Western Movie, Western Films, Cowboy Movie

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

  Lin Yutang

  Common Sense, Spirit, Logic

  Lin Yutang (1937). “The Importance of Living”

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• It is significant that it is as difficult to get charity out of piety as to get reasonableness out of rationalism.

  Reinhold Niebuhr

  Charity, Significant, Difficult

  Interview with Mike Wallace, ABC TV, www.hrc.utexas.edu. April 27, 1958.

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• Socrates and Plato are right: whatever man does he always does well, that is, he does that which seems to him good (useful) according to the degree of his intellect, the particular standard of his reasonableness.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Plato, Men, Degrees

  Friedrich Nietzsche “Writings of Nietzsche: Volume III”, Lulu.com

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• Make measurable progress in reasonable time.

  Jim Rohn

  Inspirational, Time, Greatness

  FaceBook post by Jim Rohn from Feb 13, 2017

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• That proves you are unusual,' returned the Scarecrow; 'and I am convinced that the only people worthy of consideration in this world are the unusual ones. For the common folks are like the leaves of a tree, and live and die unnoticed.

  L. Frank Baum

  Common Folk, People, Tree

  L. Frank Baum (2016). “30+ FANTASY ADVENTURES & FAIRY TALES – Ultimate Collection (Magical World Series): The Wizard of Oz Series, Dot and Tot of Merryland, Mother Goose in Prose, The Magical Monarch of Mo, American Fairy Tales, The Master Key, The Life and Adventures of Santa Claus, The Sea Fairies…”, p.234, e-artnow

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• I will not attempt to deny the reasonableness and necessity of a party war; but in carrying on that war all principles and rules of justice should not be departed from.

  Robert Walpole

  War, Party, Justice

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• Experience having long taught me the reasonableness of mutual sacrifices of opinion among those who are to act together for any common object, and the expediency of doing what good we can; when we cannot do all we would wish.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Sacrifice, Long, Wish

  Thomas Jefferson (1829). “Memoir, correspondence, and miscellanies from the papers of T. Jefferson”

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• It may seem to your conceited to suppose that you can do anything important toward improving the lot of mankind. But this is a fallacy. You must believe that you can help bring about a better world. A good society is produced only by good individuals, just as truly as a majority in a presidential election is produced by the votes of single electors. Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Believe, Conceited, Hysteria

  Bertrand Russell, John Greer Slater, Peter Köllner (1996). “A Fresh Look at Empiricism: 1927-42”, p.642, Psychology Press

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• I should consent to breed under pressure, if I were convinced in any way of the reasonableness of reproducing the species. But my nerves and the nerves of any woman I could live with three months, would produce only a victim... lacking in impulse, a mere bundle of discriminations. If I were wealthy I might subsidize a stud of young peasants, or a tribal group in Tahiti.

  Ezra Pound

  Way, Pressure, Months

  Ezra Pound (1958). “Pavannes and Divagations”, p.55, New Directions Publishing

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• The great decisions of human life have as a rule far more to do with the instincts and other mysterious unconscious factors than with conscious will and well-meaning reasonableness. The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases. Each of us carries his own life-form- an indeterminable form which cannot be superseded by any other.

  Carl Jung

  Shoes, Decision, Recipes

  Carl Gustav Jung (2001). “Modern Man in Search of a Soul”, p.62, Psychology Press

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• One of those disturbing tendencies in academic life is that there is a desire on the part of many in the name of open-mindedness to fall into a kind of relativistic denialism in which all positions are equally legitimate, all positions must be respected, and compromise must be entered into no matter what the starting point or reasonableness of the two parties.

  Lawrence Summers

  Fall, Party, Names

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• The theologian considers sin mainly as an offence against God; the moral philosopher as contrary to reasonableness.

  Thomas Aquinas

  Powerful, Philosopher, Moral

  Saint Thomas Aquinas (1951). “Philosophical Texts”, London : Oxford University Press

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• He that rightly understands the reasonableness and Excellency of charity will know that it can never be excusable to waste any of our money in pride and folly.

  William Law

  Christian, Religious, Pride

  William Law (2001). “A Serious Call to a Devout and Holy Life, adapted to the State and Condition of all Orders of Christians, Volume 4”, p.45, Wipf and Stock Publishers

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• The public welfare demands that constitutional cases must be decided according to the terms of the Constitution itself, and not according to judges views of fairness, reasonableness, or justice. I have no fear of constitutional amendments properly adopted, but I do fear the rewriting of the Constitution by judges under the guise of interpretation.

  Hugo Black

  Views, Justice, Judging

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• Prepare for every negotiation... 1) Focus on Outcomes. What is it that you want to walk away with? Being as specific as possible also increases the likelihood of negotiation success. 2) Support your desired outcome with data that points to its reasonableness. 3) Writing down your key points in advance - and practicing them - enables you to stay focused on what's most important and avoid going off on tangents. 4) Err on the side of asking for more, rather than less [of what you really want]. 5) Be willing to walk away.

  Lois P Frankel

  Writing, Keys, Data

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• Everybody can do something toward creating in his own environment kindly feelings rather than anger, reasonableness rather than hysteria, happiness rather than misery.

  Bertrand Russell

  Hysteria, Creating, Feelings

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• The reasonableness of the agency of the national courts in cases in which the state tribunals cannot be supposed to be impartial, speaks for itself. No man ought certainly to be a judge in his own cause, or in any cause in respect to which he has the least interest or bias.

  Alexander Hamilton

  Men, Agency, Judging

  Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, John Jay (2009). “The Federalist”, p.525, Harvard University Press

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• We should take care, in inculcating patriotism into our boys and girls, that is a patriotism above the narrow sentiment which usually stops at one's country, and thus inspires jealousy and enmity in dealing with others... Our patriotism should be of the wider, nobler kind which recognises justice and reasonableness in the claims of others and which lead our country into comradeship with...the other nations of the world.

  Robert Baden-Powell

  Girl, Country, Patriotic

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• The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic).

  Ken Wilber

  Tolerance, Vision, World

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.206, Shambhala Publications

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• Protestantism has the method of Jesus with His secret too much left out of mind; Catholicism has His secret with His method too much left out of mind; neither has His unerring balance, His intuition, His sweet reasonableness. But both have hold of a great truth, and get from it a great power.

  Matthew Arnold

  Sweet, Jesus, Intuition

  Matthew Arnold (1873). “Literature & Dogma: An Essay Towards a Better Apprehension of the Bible”, p.293, London: Smith, Elder

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• Never once have Democrats benefited from attempts at reasonableness and compromise and accommodation. To the contrary, Bush and his team seem to view political compromise as weakness, and they punish it rather than reward or reciprocate it.

  Jim Jordan

  Team, Views, Political

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• He brought a sensibility and a hard-edged reasonableness to operating restaurants that had a lasting impact on me and still affects how I run all our restaurants today. The passing of 'Restaurant Man' - the original gangsta 'Restaurant Man,' my father - was the passing of an era. No one can replace him.

  Joe Bastianich

  Running, Father, Men

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• You just try to do everything that comes up. Get up an hour earlier, stay up an hour later, make the time. Then you look back and say, ‘Well, that was a neat piece of juggling there -- school, marriage, babies, career.’ The enthusiasms took me through the action, not the measuring of it or the reasonableness.

  Ruby Dee

  Marriage, Baby, Children

  "Breaking: Legendary Actress Ruby Dee Has Died at Age 91, Family Says" by Tambay A. Obenson, www.indiewire.com. June 12, 2014.

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