Reasonable

Famous quotes containing the word reasonable:

“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)

“A man that is ashamed of passions that are natural and reasonable is generally proud of those that are shameful and silly.”
—Mary Wortley, Lady Montagu (1689–1762)

“... the novelist is bound by the reasonable possibilities, not the probabilities, of his culture.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)