The Unreasonable Man Quotes

#1. 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.

George Bernard Shaw

#2. The reasonable man will adjust to the demands of his environment. The unreasonable man expects his environment to adjust to his own needs. Therefore, all progress depends upon the unreasonable man.

George Bernard Shaw

#3. It is logical for a U.S. person to give their money away while they are alive, as the government will take it from you when you die in taxes.

Chuck Feeney

#4. A proof is that which convinces a reasonable man; a rigorous proof is that which convinces an unreasonable man.

Mark Kac

#5. If, then, knowledge be power, how much more power to we gain through the agency of faith, and what elevation must it give to human character.

Matthew Simpson

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

Richard Steele

#7. You may reasonably expect a man to walk a tightrope safely for ten minutes; it would be unreasonable to do so without accident for two hundred years.

Bertrand Russell

#8. He is an honorable, obstinate, truthful, high-spirited, intensely prejudiced, perfectly unreasonable man.

Charles Dickens

#9. He had an ego so large that only by contemplating the mathematical definition of infinity could anything so limitless be imagined.

Robert Anton Wilson

#10. ... man has an idea of a better world than this. But better does not mean different, it means unified ... Religion or crime, every human endeavor in fact, finally obeys this unreasonable desire and claims to give life a form it does not have.

Albert Camus

#11. The Web as I envisaged it, we have not seen it yet. The future is still so much bigger than the past.

Tim Berners-Lee

#12. Euripides was wont to say, silence was an answer to a wise man; but we seem to have greater occasion for it in our dealing with fools and unreasonable persons; for men of breeding and sense will be satisfied with reason and fair words.

Plutarch

#13. I hope one day that I'll get to make another horror film; I'd love to.

Peter Jackson

#14. Jim Bakker is an extremely talented preacher, if he would just get it together.

Jessica Hahn

#15. Nor is the people's judgment always true: the most may err as grossly as the few.

John Dryden

#16. It is unreasonable ... to oblige a man not to attempt the defense of his own life.

Baron De Montesquieu

#17. [On the ancient Venus figurines:] If the central religious figure was a woman giving birth and not, as in our time, a man dying on a cross, it would not be unreasonable to infer that life and the love of life - rather than death and the fear of death - were dominant in society as well as art.

Riane Eisler

#18. If I were a blind man and were told by you that you possess a faculty called sight, I should be unreasonable if I railed at you as a conceited enthusiast.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

#19. You see, it is a very dangerous thing to listen. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person. lady basildon.

Oscar Wilde

#20. The professional knows that Resistance is like a telemarketer; if you so much as say hello, you're finished.

Steven Pressfield

#21. I call a man awake who knows in his conscious reason his innermost unreasonable forces, drives, and weaknesses and knows how to deal with them.

Hermann Hesse

#22. Christianity claims that the supernatural is as reasonable as the natural, that man himself is supernatural as truly as he is natural, and that the Bible is so clearly the word of God by proofs that are unanswerable, that it is unreasonable to disbelieve its divine truths.

Abbott Eliot Kittredge

#23. If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person

Oscar Wilde

#24. The ability to embrace mystery is what attracts revelation.

Bill Johnson

#25. The Tinted Windows shows were very fun but it's very different for me as a performer. I'm not playing music - I'm just singing and I missed that. I miss rocking out on keys, drums, guitar ... whatever it is.

Taylor Hanson

#26. The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

Oscar Wilde

#27. Man is a rational animal. But that does not mean that he is a reasonable animal. It means only that he has reason, and therefore can misuse it. If he had not reason, he could not be unreasonable. But he has, and is.

Frank Sheed

#28. Dada aimed to destroy the reasonable deceptions of man and recover the natural and unreasonable order.

Hans Arp

#29. It would be stupid tameness, and unaccountable folly, for whole nations to suffer one unreasonable, ambitious and cruel man, to wanton and riot in their misery.

Jonathan Mayhew

#30. Do you suppose there is any living man so unreasonable that if he found himself stricken with a dangerous ailment he would not anxiously desire to regain the blessing of health?

Petrarch

#31. And, fatigued by the merciless and enormous day, he lost his usual sane view of human intercourse, and felt that we exist not in ourselves, but in terms of each others' minds - a notion for which logic offers no support and which had attacked him only once before...

E. M. Forster

#32. Negativity is your great enemy; positivity is your great friend.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#33. It is unreasonable to expect all children to develop correctly in unnatural man-made electromagnetic radiation fields.

Steven Magee

#34. Despite all the wonderful advances that have been made, it's still dangerous for an actor to talk about that in our extremely misguided culture. Look at what happened in California with Proposition 8. Please, don't pretend that we're suddenly all wonderfully, blissfully accepted.

Richard Chamberlain

#35. Man stands face to face with the irrational. He feels within him his longing for happiness and for reason. The absurd is born of this confrontation between the human need and the unreasonable silence of the world.

Albert Camus

#36. There is simply no comparison between a man who is armed and one who is not. It is simply unreasonable to expect that an armed man should obey one who is unarmed, or that an unarmed man should remain safe and secure when his servants are armed.

Niccolo Machiavelli

#37. The moment you try so hard to forget becomes your sharpest memory.

-Tara

Amita Trasi

#38. A reasonable man adjusts himself to the world. An unreasonable man expects the world to adjust itself to him. Therefore all progress is made by unreasonable people.

Confucius

#39. 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

#40. My luck is so bad that if I bought a cemetery, people would stop dying.

Ed Furgol

#41. A man who would contract the mumps,' declared Cecilia, 'would do anything!' Lady Ombersley saw nothing unreasonable in this pronouncement, nor was she surprised that his lordship's unromantic behaviour had given Cecilia a distaste for him. She

Georgette Heyer

#42. It is said that an argument is what convinces reasonable men and a proof is what it takes to convince even an unreasonable man.

William Lane Craig