Reasonable

Famous quotes containing the word reasonable:

    An act of God was defined as “something which no reasonable man could have expected.”
    —A.P. (Sir Alan Patrick)

    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 (1856–1950)

    We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonable to do so when his proposition is agreeable to us.
    Friedrich Nietzsche (1844–1900)