Unreasonable Quotes - Page 5

Pleasure that is obtained by unreasonable and unsuitable cost must always end in pain.

Samuel Johnson

Pain, Cost, Pleasure

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No American worth his salt should go looking around for a root. I advance this in all modesty, as a not unreasonable opinion.

Wyndham Lewis

Roots, America, Salt

"The Essential Wyndham Lewis: An Introduction to His Work".

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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 to prevent the people of the United States, who are peaceable citizens, from keeping their own arms; or to raise standing armies, unless necessary for the defense of the United States, or of some one or more of them; or to prevent the people from petitioning, in a peaceable and orderly manner, the federal legislature, for a redress of grievances; or to subject the people to unreasonable searches and seizures of their persons, papers or possessions.

Samuel Adams

Army, Rights, People

Debates of the Massachusetts Convention, 1788.

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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 mounted to what he is from the lowest step of potentiality, through toilsome grades of ever-expanding existence, even thought it have been by a spiral stairway, mainly dark or dusty, with loop-holes at long intervals only, and these granting but a narrow and one-sided view.

James Russell Lowell

Dark, Men, Views

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To a reasonable creature, that alone is insupportable which is unreasonable; but everything reasonable may be supported.

Epictetus

May, Creatures, Reasonable

Epictetus (1807). “The Works of Epictetus: Consisting of His Discourses in Four Books Preserved by Arrian, the Enchiridion, and Fragments”, p.8

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So let's set the record straight. Faith is not the opposite of reason. The opposite of faith is unbelief. And reason is not the opposite of faith. The opposite of reason is irrationality. Do some Christians have irrational faith? Sure. Do some skeptics have unreasonable unbelief? You bet. It works both ways.

Greg Koukl

Christian, Opposites, Records

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I'm a reasonable guy, but I've just experienced some very unreasonable things.

Kurt Russell

Guy, Reasonable

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Eugene Wigner wrote a famous essay on the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in natural sciences. He meant physics, of course. There is only one thing which is more unreasonable than the unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics in physics, and this is the unreasonable ineffectiveness of mathematics in biology.

Israel Gelfand

Effectiveness, Physics, Biology

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Guys like Larry Bird -- he played so hard, he wants everybody else to play hard. That's not unreasonable. Any coach would want that and demand that.

Larry Bird

Play Hard, Guy, Bird

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Great teams are usually small-under fifty in total head count. (There are few examples of a team made up of hundreds of people who created anything revolutionary.) Big teams aren't conducive to revolutionary products because such products require a high degree of single-mindedness, unity, and unreasonable passion.

Guy Kawasaki

Team, Passion, People

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Science is all those things which are confirmed to such a degree that it would be unreasonable to withhold one's provisional consent.

Stephen Jay Gould

Science, Degrees, Would Be

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She didn't give George any too easy a time when she was alive. She was one of those semi-invalids – I believe she had really something wrong with her, but whatever it was she played it for all it was worth. She was capricious, exacting, unreasonable. She complained from morning to night. George was expected to wait on her, hand and foot and everything he did was always wrong and he got cursed for it. Most men, I'm fully convinced, would have hit her with a hatchet long ago.

Agatha Christie

Morning, Believe, Men

"The Blue Geranium: A Miss Marple Short Story".

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Why should physical processing give rise to a rich inner life at all? It seems objectively unreasonable that it should, and yet it does.

David Chalmers

Giving, Doe, Rich

David J. Chalmers (2010). “The Character of Consciousness”, p.5, Oxford University Press

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Three principles - the conformability of nature to herself, the applicability of the criterion of simplicity, and the utility of certain parts of mathematics in describing physical reality - are thus consequences of the underlying law of the elementary particles and their interactions. Those three principles need not be assumed as separate metaphysical postulates. Instead, they are emergent properties of the fundamental laws of physics.

Murray Gell-Mann

Reality, Law, Effectiveness

"Murray Gell-Mann: Selected Papers". Book by Murray Gell-Mann and Harald Fritzsch, 2010.

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If we only obey those rules that we think are just and reasonable, then no rule will stand, for there is no rule that some will not think is unjust and unreasonable.

Isaac Asimov

Thinking, Unjust, Ifs

Isaac Asimov (2012). “Foundation and Earth”, p.77, Spectra

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Be patient with yourself. Perfection comes not in this life, but in the next life. Don't demand things that are unreasonable, but demand of yourself improvement. As you let the Lord help you through that, He will make the difference.

Russell M. Nelson

Life, Motivational, Change

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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 unreasonable to accept merely probable conclusions from a mathematician and to demand strict demonstration from an orator.

Aristotle

Mind, Demand, Accepting

Aristotle (1996). “The Nicomachean Ethics”, p.5, Wordsworth Editions

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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 we wish to pay the price for life's rewards.

Epictetus

Thinking, Pay The Price, Choices

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Unreasonable is very relative.

Lakshmi Pratury

Journey, Life Is A Journey, Relative

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Guerrilla war is a test of wills. Obama's actual objectives - rollback in Iraq, containment in Syria - are not unreasonable. But they require commitment and determination. In other words, will. You can't just make one speech declaring war, then disappear and go fundraising.

Charles Krauthammer

Determination, War, Commitment

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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, for example, he has an unreasonable and absurd desire to drink or steal or use abusive language; but all his other acts and all his other thoughts are strictly correct.

Emile Durkheim

Sick, Healthy, Desire

John A. Spaulding, George Simpson, Emile Durkheim (2010). “Suicide”, p.59, Simon and Schuster

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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 the truth and what is built thereon neither brings nor yields to confusion.

Henry Ford

Depressing, Yield, Evil

Henry Ford (1949). “The International Jew: the World's Foremost Problem”, p.243, Library of Alexandria

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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 a quack bolus to reduce masculinity even by the obliteration of femininity.

John Boyle O'Reilly

Half, Unjust, Abomination

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Faith enables us to obey when obedience is costly or seems unreasonable to the natural mind.

Jerry Bridges

Mind, Obedience, Natural

Jerry Bridges (2016). “The Pursuit of Holiness”, p.111, NavPress

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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 with defined sequences it is not unreasonable to hope that all these points will be clarified in the near future, and that the genetic code will be completely established on a sound experimental basis within a few years.

Francis Crick

Dna, Years, Sound

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