Reasonable Quotes

The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts: therefore, guard accordingly, and take care that you entertain no notions unsuitable to virtue and reasonable nature. (Marcus Aurelius)
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man. View quote
George Bernard Shaw
One ought, every day at least, to hear a little song, read a good poem, see a fine picture, and, if it were possible, to speak a few reasonable words. View quote
Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
Believe in yourself! Have faith in your abilities! Without a humble but reasonable confidence in your own powers you cannot be successful or happy. View quote
Norman Vincent Peale
All I want is compliance with my wishes, after reasonable discussion. View quote
Winston Churchill
Reason has always existed, but not always in a reasonable form. View quote
Karl Marx
All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
The wrong way always seems the more reasonable. View quote
George Moore (novelist)
Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion. View quote
Alexander Hamilton
A woman in love can't be reasonable - or she probably wouldn't be in love. View quote
Mae West
A just and reasonable modesty does not only recommend eloquence, but sets off every great talent which a man can be possessed of. (Joseph Addison)
The only remedy against hunger is reasonable birth control. View quote
Friedrich Dürrenmatt
With reasonable men, I will reason; with humane men I will plead; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost. View quote
William Lloyd Garrison
A time will come when a politician who has willfully made war and promoted international dissension will be as sure of the dock and much surer of the noose than a private homicide. It is not reasonable that those who gamble with men's lives should not stake their own. View quote
H. G. Wells
The ideal condition would be, I admit, that men should be right by instinct but since we are all likely to go astray, The reasonable thing is to learn from those who can teach. View quote
Sophocles
What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
On the molecular scale, you find it's reasonable to have a machine that does a million steps per second, a mechanical system that works at computer speeds. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
If you limit your choices only to what seems possible or reasonable, you disconnect yourself from what you truly want, and all that is left is a compromise. View quote
Robert Fritz
All, too, will bear in mind this sacred principle, that though the will of the majority is in all cases to prevail, that will to be rightful must be reasonable; that the minority possess their equal rights, which equal law must protect, and to violate would be oppression. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
It were Happy if we studied Nature more in natural Things and acted according to Nature whose rules are few, plain and most reasonable. View quote
William Penn
Money is the last enemy that shall never be subdued. While there is flesh there is money or the want of money, but money is always on the brain so long as there is a brain in reasonable order. (Samuel Butler (novelist))
So convenient a thing to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do. View quote
Benjamin Franklin
The combination of some data and an aching desire for an answer does not ensure that a reasonable answer can be extracted from a given body of data. View quote
John Tukey
A child will make two dishes at an entertainment for friends and when the family dines alone, the fore or hind quarter will make a reasonable dish, and seasoned with a little pepper or salt will be very good boiled on the fourth day, especially in w. View quote
Jonathan Swift
I tried being reasonable, I didn't like it. View quote
Clint Eastwood