Unreasonable Quotes - Page 7

• It is an impertinent and unreasonable fault in conversation for one man to take up all the discourse.

  Richard Steele

  Men, Faults, Conversation

  Joseph Addison, Richard Steele (1854). “The Spectator”, p.321

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• The necessaries of life occasion the great expense of the poor. They find it difficult to get food, and the greater part of their little revenue is spent in getting it. The luxuries and vanities of life occasion the principal expense of the rich, and a magnificent house embellishes and sets off to the best advantage all the other luxuries and vanities which they possess ... It is not very unreasonable that the rich should contribute to the public expense, not only in proportion to their revenue, but something more than in that proportion.

  Adam Smith

  Vanity, Progressive Taxation, Luxury

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• I was raised in a religious home. It was unreasonable enforced religion that turned me off it. It was a joyless, unpleasant, stupid, barbaric thing when I was a child and I've never gotten over that feeling. If you're talking about religion it's one thing; I don't hold Jewish religion with any more seriousness than I would any other.

  Woody Allen

  Religious, Children, Stupid

  CrankyCritic Interview, www.woodyallen.art.pl.

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• Each era invents its own child. Over the past 500 years, conceptions of the child changed gradually from an ill-formed adult who must be subjugated to society's goals to a precious being who must be protected from unreasonable social demands. Childhood has come to be seen as a special period of life, rather than as a temporary state of no lasting importance for adulthood.

  Sandra Scarr

  Change, Children, Past

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• Scientists, especially when they leave the particular field in which they are specialized, are just as ordinary, pig-headed, and unreasonable as everybody else, and their unusually high intelligence only makes their prejudices all the more dangerous.

  Hans Eysenck

  Science, Intelligent, Pigs

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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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• 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 the extremists on both sides are unreasonable.

  Joichi Ito

  Believe, Japan, Korea

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• While I am proud of a number of accomplishments, there are real costs to being unreasonable. Long hours. Too little time with family. A near incapacity for, as they say, stopping and smelling the roses.

  Eli Broad

  Success, Real, Hard Work

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• Architects spend an entire life with this unreasonable idea that you can fight against gravity.

  Renzo Piano

  Badass, Fighting, Bad Ass

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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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