Reasonable Man

Famous quotes containing the words reasonable man, reasonable and/or man:

“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)

“Attention and respect give pleasure, however late, or however useless. But they are not useless, when they are late, it is reasonable to rejoice, as the day declines, to find that it has been spent with the approbation of mankind.”
—Samuel Johnson (1709–1784)

“A man of great common sense and good taste—meaning thereby a man without originality or moral courage.”
—George Bernard Shaw (1856–1950)