Reasonable quotes
71 quotes on this topic — from poets, philosophers, and thinkers across history.
"It is reasonable to ask who or what created the universe, but if the answer is God, then the question has merely been deflected to that of who created God."
"You won't find reasonable men on the tops of tall mountains."
"It is never too late to become reasonable and wise."
"Be reasonable with the students and make sure they see the logic in what we're doing."
"Being unable to make people more reasonable, I preferred to be happy away from them"
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"Is it reasonable to assume a purposiveness in all the parts of nature and to deny it to the whole?"
"Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable"
"Nothing is ever accomplished by a reasonable man."
"It is impossible on reasonable grounds to disbelieve miracles."
"I'm a reasonable guy, but I've just experienced some very unreasonable things."
"She hoped to be wise and reasonable in time; but alas! Alas! She must confess to herself that she was not wise yet."
"I believe in making all movies at their most reasonable. That I get a lot of money as an actor is because nobody else will get it if I don't."
"What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable."
"If you would be unloved and forgotten, be reasonable."
"When all else failed, she tried being reasonable."
"I make no apologies for being reasonable."
"Montaigne is wrong in declaring that custom ought to be followed simply because it is custom, and not because it is reasonable or just."
"Law was once introduced without reason, and has become reasonable."
"It is not possible to have reasonable grounds for not believing in miracles."
"It is sheer laziness not compressing thought into a reasonable space."
"It is reasonable to assume that, by and large, what is not read now will not be read, ever. It is also reasonable to assume that practically nothing that is read now will be read later."
"Be reasonable. I know you can be. If you try very, very hard.” - Al to Rachel"
"Pain doesn't listen to reason, it has it's own reason, which is not reasonable"
