Unreasonable Quotes

We are at the very beginning of time for the human race. It is not unreasonable that we grapple with problems. But there are tens of thousands of years in the future. Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard P. Feynman

Inspirational, Responsibility, Science

Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.359, Princeton University Press

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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

Doubt, Atheism, Reason

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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Life, Motivational, Change

Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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Unreasonable haste is the direct road to error.

Moliere

Errors, Haste, Literature

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When you respond to an unreasonable person by getting emotional, you give them victory. How do you manage unreasonable people? You dismiss them. Like shadows

David Viscott

Emotional, People, Giving

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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 may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

Mother Teresa

Honesty, Self, Years

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It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics.

Stephen Hawking

Reading, Men, Multitasking

"Return of the time lord" by Emma Brockes, www.theguardian.com. September 27, 2005.

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All progress depends on the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

Change, Success, Creativity

Man and Superman "Maxims for Revolutionists" (1903) See Hawthorne 18

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We do not see the lens through which we look.

Ruth Benedict

Lenses, Looks

Ruth Benedict (1922). “Scientific Papers”

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In human life there is constant change of fortune; and it is unreasonable to expect an exemption from the common fate. Life itself decays, and all things are daily changing.

Plutarch

Life, Change, Fate

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A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing.

Lea DeLaria

Girl, Ridiculous, Emotion

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People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

Mother Teresa

Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.

Patrik Baboumian

Sympathy, Compassion, Bodybuilding

"Vegan strongman shoulders 550 kg — a record, perhaps — at vegetarian food fest" by Jessica Mcdiarmid, www.thestar.com. September 8, 2013.

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If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

Mother Teresa

Selfish, People, Self Centered

Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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To all the rest of his Absurdities, (for vice is always unreasonable,) he adds one more, who expects that Vertue from another which he won't practise himself.

Mary Astell

Vices, Add, Absurdity

Mary Astell, Patricia Springborg (1996). “Astell: Political Writings”, p.41, Cambridge University Press

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Our responsibility is to do what we can, learn what we can, improve the solutions, and pass them on.

Richard P. Feynman

Responsibility, Human Race, Solutions

Richard P. Feynman (2015). “The Quotable Feynman”, p.359, Princeton University Press

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If you are kind, people may accuse you of ulterior motives. Be kind anyway.

Mother Teresa

People, May, Be Kind

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In the light of our culture, these are not unreasonable questions and tactics, but if once again, we try to see the lens through which we look, we can see that there is far too great an emphasis placed on the future.

Alan Dundes

Light, Trying, Culture

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All progress depends upon the unreasonable person.

George Bernard Shaw

Progress, Persons, Depends

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In the final analysis it is between you and God, it was never between you and them anyway.

Mother Teresa

Finals, Analysis, Be Kind

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It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures.

Potter Stewart

Constitution, Remembered, Seizures

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The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion.

Potter Stewart

Home, Men, Rights

"Silverman v. United States, 365 U.S. 511". 1961.

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Statutes authorizing unreasonable searches were the core concern of the framers of the 4th Amendment.

Sandra Day O'Connor

History, Amendments, Framers

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What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

Mother Teresa

Years, May, Self Centered

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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 in the European Union are inherently so outlandish or unreasonable.

David Cameron

Steps, Doe, Would Be

David Cameron's Speech about his plans for a referendum on British membership of the European Union, www.theguardian.com. January 23, 2013.

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