These reasonable quotes will inspire you. Reasonable (of a person) having sound judgment; fair and sensible.
A collection of motivating, happy, and encouraging reasonable quotes, reasonable sayings, and reasonable proverbs.
Best Reasonable Quotes
- “The happiness of your life depends upon the quality of your thoughts.” ~ Marcus Aurelius
- “All progress depends on the unreasonable man.” ~ George Bernard Shaw
- “You have to be reasonable with yourself and not feel guilty when things aren’t perfect.” ~ Jaclyn Smith
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“You must never stop dreaming. Face reality, yes. But don’t stop with the way things are; dream of things as they ought to be. Dream of peace. Peace is rational and reasonable. War is irrational in this age and unwinnable.” ~ Jesse Jackson
- “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
- “You know what? Certain people think they will feel good if certain things happen The trick is : you have to feel good for no reason” ~ Richard Bandler
- “Grace is the atmosphere created by love that makes faith the only reasonable response” ~ Bill Johnson
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“Whatever is reasonable is true, and whatever is true is reasonable” ~ Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- “If you want a wise answer, ask a reasonable question.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “A reasonable fine is such as the law will judge to be so . . . but what a reasonable fine is, and who shall be the judge of it, the law has established no rule.” ~ Philip Yorke, 1st Earl of Hardwicke
- “Try for a goal that’s reasonable, then gradually raise it.” ~ Emil Zatopek
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“There are parts of us that are miserable, that hate, that love, that are cruel, are kind, are reasonable, are unreasonable. You know, you live inside your own mind. Who are you kidding?” ~ Frederick Lenz
- “We have to have an aggressive, long-term plan to tackle our nation’s debt, but attempting to balance the budget on the backs of veterans who have risked life and limb in service of our country is unacceptable. I believe we can and should work together to find reasonable and common-sense cuts that will reduce our debt, but as a generation of warriors returns from two wars, our most solemn responsibility is to make sure they have the care and benefits they have earned.” ~ Tim Walz
- “In the Bible angels speak and humans speak back to them. This is the case with Mary in Luke 1. The angel speaks, Mary questions, and it goes back and forth. Abraham speaks with angels. So I would contend the Bible has enough evidence of angels speaking and humans speaking that speaking with an angel today would be reasonable. I’ve heard enough stories and read such that confirm that Christians today do speak with angels.” ~ Scot McKnight
- “We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.” ~ Aldous Huxley
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“Reason cannot show itself more reasonable than to cease reasoning on things above reason.” ~ Philip Sidney
- “Condemning class struggle does not mean condemning every possible form of social conflict. Such conflicts inevitably arise and Christians must often take a position in the “struggle for social justice.” What is condemned is “total war,” which has no respect for the dignity of others (and consequently of oneself). It excludes reasonable compromise, does not pursue the common good but the good of a group, and sets out to destroy whatever stands in its way.” ~ Pope John Paul II
- “It is true that the successful quest for wisdom might lead to the result that wisdom is not the one thing needful. But this result would owe its relevance to the fact that it is the result of the quest for wisdom: the very disavowal of reason must be reasonable disavowal.” ~ Leo Strauss
- “Just when summer gets perfect-fresh nights, soft sun, casual breezes, crushingly full and quietly cooling trees, empty beaches, and free weekends- it ends. Life is like that too. Just when we get it right, it starts to change. The job gets easy and we know just how to do it, and they tell us we’re retired. The children grow up and get reasonable and they leave home, just when it’s nice to have them around. . . . That’s life on the edge of autumn. And that’s beautiful-if we have the humility for it.” ~ Joan D. Chittister , Reasonable quotes about life
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“Any reasonable economist will tell you that it’s nearly impossible to isolate the impact of right-to-work laws on a state’s job growth. A multitude of other factors intervene. However, one thing the numbers can show is that right-to-work laws have a negative effect on the wages of workers in that state.” ~ Eliot Spitzer
- “Someday I’d like to be a father, not of a human child, but something more reasonable.” ~ Dov Davidoff
- “Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.” ~ Orson Scott Card
- “Children must be rendered reasonable, but not reasoners. The first thing to teach them is that it is reasonable for them to obey, and unreasonable for them to dispute.” ~ Joseph Joubert
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“He who destroys a good book kills reason itself.” ~ John Milton
- “The institution of delegated power implies that there is a portion of virtue and honor among mankind which may be a reasonable foundation of confidence.” ~ Alexander Hamilton
- “History is rarely made by reasonable men.” ~ Terry Goodkind
- “Surely knowledge of the natural world, knowledge of the human condition, knowledge of the nature and dynamics of society, knowledge of the past so that one may use it in experiencing the present and aspiring to the future–all of these, it would seem reasonable to suppose, are essential to an educated man. To these must be added another–knowledge of the products of our artistic heritage that mark the history of our esthetic wonder and delight.” ~ Jerome Bruner
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“You had no right to be born; for you make no use of life. Instead of living for, in, and with yourself, as a reasonable being ought, you seek only to fasten your feebleness on some other person’s strength.” ~ Charlotte Bronte
- “I don’t think the law exists to arrive at the truth. If it did, we wouldn’t have exclusionary rules, we wouldn’t have presumptions of innocence, we wouldn’t have proof beyond reasonable doubt. There’s an enormous difference between the role of truth in law and the role of truth in science. In law, truth is one among many goals.” ~ Alan Dershowitz
- “I believe in a reasonable amount of “right to bear arms”. But private citizens of the United States are not allowed to own nuclear weapons. I always wanted a nuclear weapon, if I could have gotten one. I’m every other kind of power, but I’m not a nuclear power.” ~ Ted Turner
- “In university courses we do exercises. Term papers, quizzes, final examinations are not meant for publication. We move through a course on Dostoevsky or Poe as we move through a mildly good cocktail party, picking up the good bits of food or conversation, bearing with the rest, going home when it comes to seem the reasonable thing to do. Art, at those moments when it feels most like art — when we feel most alive, most alert, most triumphant — is less like a cocktail party than a tank full of sharks.” ~ John Gardner
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“Faith means intense, usually confident, belief that is not based on evidence sufficient to command assent from every reasonable person.” ~ Walter Kaufmann
- “Since opposed principles, or ideologies, are irreconcilable, wars fought over principle will be wars of mutual annihilation. But wars fought for simple greed will be far less destructive, because the aggressor will be careful not to destroy what he is fighting to capture. Reasonable – that is, human – men will always be capable of compromise, but men who have dehumanized themselves by becoming the blind worshipers of an idea or an ideal are fanatics whose devotion to abstractions makes them the enemies of life.” ~ Alan Watts
- “Have you ever observed somebody go through a religious conversion? The person seems perfectly reasonable to you and has no particular concern for religion. Then a parent, friend or child dies or he gets a serious illness or is involved in a car accident. In just a matter of weeks, he seeks out and finds the answers to all of life’s questions and starts studying and spouting all sorts of doctrine. During such a window of vulnerability, religion can commandeer a person’s brain.” ~ Darrel Ray
- “Oho, now I know what you are. You are an advocate of Useful Knowledge…. Well, allow me to introduce myself to you as an advocate of Ornamental Knowledge. You like the mind to be a neat machine, equipped to work efficiently, if narrowly, and with no extra bits or useless parts. I like the mind to be a dustbin of scraps of brilliant fabric, odd gems, worthless but fascinating curiosities, tinsel, quaint bits of carving, and a reasonable amount of healthy dirt. Shake the machine and it goes out of order; shake the dustbin and it adjusts itself beautifully to its new position.” ~ Robertson Davies
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“When a person implores you to be reasonable what he means is that you should speed round forthwith to his point of view.” ~ Alice Thomas Ellis
- “Let us have wine and woman, mirth and laughter, Sermons and soda water the day after. Man, being reasonable, must get drunk; The best of life is but intoxication: Glory, the grape, love, gold, in these are sunk The hopes of all men, and of every nation; Without their sap, how branchless were the trunk Of life’s strange tree, so fruitful on occasion: But to return–Get very drunk; and when You wake with head-ache, you shall see what then.” ~ Lord Byron
- “May we not have a picture of Christ, who has a true body? By no means; because, though he has a true body and a reasonable soul, John 1:14, yet his human nature subsists in his divine person, which no picture can represent, Psalm 45:2. Why ought all pictures of Christ to be abominated by Christians? Because they are downright lies, representing no more than the picture of a mere man: whereas, the true Christ is God-man” ~ James Fisher
- “It comforts me to think that if we are created beings, the thing that created us would have to be greater than us, so much greater, in fact, that we would not be able to understand it. It would have to be greater than the facts of our reality, and so it would seem to us, looking out from within our reality that it would contradict reason. But reason itself would suggest it would have to be greater than reality, or it would not be reasonable.” ~ Donald Miller
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“We have learned the lesson that the music industry didn’t learn. Give people what they want, when they want it, in the form they want it in, at a reasonable price – and they’ll more likely pay for it rather than steal it.” ~ Kevin Spacey
- “History is hard to know, because of all the hired bullshit, but even without being sure of “history” it seems entirely reasonable to think that every now and then the energy of a whole generation comes to a head in a long fine flash, for reasons that nobody understands at the time–and which never explain, in retrospect, what actually happened.” ~ Hunter S. Thompson
- “The world, unfortunately, rarely matches our hopes and consistently refuses to behave in a reasonable manner.” ~ Stephen Jay Gould
- “A foolhardy lot, we accepted it all, as we always do, never asked: “What is going to happen to us now, with this invention of print?” In the same way, we never thought to ask, “How will our lives, our way of thinking, be changed by the internet, which has seduced a whole generation with its inanities so that even quite reasonable people will confess that, once they are hooked, it is hard to cut free, and they may find a whole day has passed in blogging etc?”” ~ Doris Lessing
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“I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.” ~ Clint Eastwood
- “A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, … a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never know what stars are made out of, that that’s the one thing that science will never ever understand, because they’re so far away. And then, just a few years later, scientists took starlight, ran it through a prism, looked at the rainbow coming from the starlight, and said: “Hydrogen!” Just a few years after this very rational, very reasonable, very scientific prediction was made, that we’ll never know what stars are made of.” ~ Michio Kaku
- “Don’t you know that there’s another bubble as well An expectations bubble. Bigger houses private planes yachts …… stupid salaries and bonuses. People come to desire these things and expect them. But the expectations bubble will burst as well as all bubbles do. Come to my gallery and I will sell you beautiful things at a more reasonable price. But the point is that they will have value. Things of real beauty things of the spirit.” ~ Edward Rutherfurd
- “I tried being reasonable, I didn’t like it.” ~ Clint Eastwood
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“We are more likely to cheat if we see others doing so. We tend to conform to accepted norms of reasonable behaviour, rather than adhere to strict rules.” ~ Evan Davis
- “The Jacksonian era is generally talked about in terms of individualism, and the development of free market capitalism, and Victorian prudery. It was shocking to find a parallel history to that – a bunch of Americans with very different priorities. I stumbled on to these people, and then became completely fixated on them. The question that drove me was: how did these reasonable people adopt these extremely unreasonable ideas?” ~ Christine Jennings
- “The mental capacity of a person to make reasonable contracts, is the only criterion, by which to determine his legal capacity to make obligatory contracts. And his mental capacity to make reasonable contracts is certainly not to be determined by the fact that he is, or is not, twenty-one years of age.” ~ Lysander Spooner
- “I think it’s reasonable to say that even thought, in all likelihood, we have slightly different experiences of reality, they are similar enough to us not to clash. In other words, I’m not, it’s very unlikely, in fact, let’s say impossible, for you to say the situation in which you and I are in right now, relative to the machinery that is capturing this.” ~ Antonio Damasio
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“No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.” ~ Kurt Vonnegut
- “I think any reasonable person knows which reporters to eliminate.” ~ Megyn Kelly
- “I’ve always considered myself a failure: I feel I’ve never done anything wholly right. […] Everybody will tell you, “Oh no, how can you say that, because ten thousand people clap you on a night?” But part of that is reflex action and part of it is because you’re reasonably good. But if you’re great, that’s a different thing.” ~ Ronnie Drew , Reasonable quotes about myself
- “Time interval is a strange and contradictory matter in the mind. It would be reasonable to suppose that a routine time or an eventless time would seem interminable. It should be so, but it is not. It is the dull eventless times that have no duration whatever. A time splashed with interest, wounded with tragedy, crevassed with joy – that’s the time that seems long in the memory. And this is right when you think about it. Eventlessness has no posts to drape duration on. From nothing to nothing is no time at all.” ~ John Steinbeck
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“It is one of the great weaknesses of reasonable men and women that they imagine that projects which fly in the face of commonsense are not serious or being seriously undertaken.” ~ Margaret Thatcher
- “In every sound convert the judgment is brought to approve of the laws and ways of Christ, and subscribe to them as most righteous and reasonable; the desire of the heart is to know the whole mind of Christ; the free and resolved choice of the heart is determined for the ways of Christ, before all the pleasures of sin, and prosperities of the world; it is the daily care of his life to walk with God.” ~ Joseph Alleine
- “People who earn reasonable amounts are being turned into the anti-Christ. I think 45 per cent tax is a colossal amount to take off somebody, and it is taking away the incentive to earn.” ~ Anthea Turner
- “Every day look at a beautiful picture, read a beautiful poem, listen to some beautiful music, and if possible, say some reasonable thing.” ~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- “It is only reasonable to allow the administration of affairs to mothers before their children reach the age prescribed by law at which they themselves can be responsible. But that father would have reared them ill who could not hope that in their maturity they would have more wisdom and competence than his wife.” ~ Michel de Montaigne
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“They either attach themselves to God’s will, which results in their continuous progress, improvement and advancement, or they oppose God’s will, are justly subjected to what He permits, and sink wretchedly from bad to worse.” ~ Gregory Palamas
- “The physicist, in his study of natural phenomena, has two methods of making progress: (1) the method of experiment and observation, and (2) the method of mathematical reasoning. The former is just the collection of selected data; the latter enables one to infer results about experiments that have not been performed. There is no logical reason why the second method should be possible at all, but one has found in practice that it does work and meets with reasonable success.” ~ Paul Dirac
- “It is time for us now as a nation to exercise the same reasonable foresight in dealing with our great natural resources that would be shown by any prudent man in conserving and widely using the property which contains the assurance of well-being for himself and his children.” ~ Theodore Roosevelt
- “In all thy undertakings, let a reasonable assurance animate thy endeavors if thou despairest of success, thou shalt not succeed.” ~ Akhenaton
- “The essence of the free press is the reliable, reasonable and moral nature of freedom.” ~ Karl Marx
