Unreasonable Quotes - Page 3

• It is not unreasonable to look upon Concorde as a miracle.

  Brian Trubshaw

  Miracle, Looks, Aviation

  19 Copiar cita

• Punishments of unreasonable severity, especially where indiscriminately afflicted, have less effect in preventing crimes, and amending the manners of a people, than such as are more merciful in general, yet properly intermixed with due distinctions of severity.

  William Blackstone

  Punishment, People, Hell

  35 Copiar cita

• Since the date, 1776, is placed on the bottom course of the pyramid [on the Great Seal], and since the number 13 has been so important in the history of the United States and in the symbols of the seal, it is not unreasonable to suppose that the thirteen courses of the pyramid may represent thirteen time-periods of thirteen years each.

  Caso Paul Foster

  Years, Pyramids, Numbers

  8 Copiar cita

• The unreasonable efficiency of mathematics in science is a gift we neither understand nor deserve.

  Eugene Wigner

  Science, Efficiency, Mathematics

  35 Copiar cita

• That the great majority of those who leave school should have some idea of the kind of evidence required to substantiate given types of belief does not seem unreasonable. Nor is it absurd to expect that they should go forth with a lively interest in the ways in which knowledge is improved and a marked distaste for all conclusions reached in disharmony with the methods of scientific inquiry.

  John Dewey

  School, Knowledge, Science

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston, H. S. Thayer (2008). “The Middle Works, 1899-1924: 1910-1911”, p.77, SIU Press

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• No es razonable esperar que la ciencia produzca un sistema de ética -la ética es una especie de código de circulación para el tráfico entre la humanidad- y el hecho de que en la física los átomos que ayer se suponían cuadrados ahora se suponen redondos es explotado con tendenciosidad injustificada por todos los que están hambrientos de fe; mientras la física extienda nuestro dominio sobre la naturaleza, estos cambios deberían ser un asunto de completa indiferencia para usted.

  Sigmund Freud

  Science, Yesterday, Squares

  Sigmund Freud, Oskar Pfister (1963). "Psicoanálisis y fe: Las cartas de Sigmund Freud y Oskar Pfister"

  8 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Many of the Nazis were convicted after the war, but they were not convicted for being 'unreasonable'. They were convicted for being gruesome murderers.

  Jostein Gaarder

  War, Nazi, Murderer

  5 Copiar cita

• El amor es anticipación y recuerdo, incertidumbre y anhelo. No es razonable, por supuesto. Nada comienza con tanta excitación y esperanza y placer como el amor, excepto quizá escribir una historia. Y nada fracasa tan a menudo, excepto escribir historias. Y como una historia, el amor debe ser problemático para ser interesante.

  John Dufresne

  Memories, Writing, Love Is

  John Dufresne (2008). “Love Warps the Mind a Little: A Novel”, p.140, W. W. Norton & Company

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Political economy has disapproved equally of monopoly and communism in the various branches of human activity, wherever it has found them. Is it not then strange and unreasonable that it accepts them in the security industry?

  Gustave de Molinari

  Political, Branches, Strange

  Gustave Molinari (1977). “Production of Security, The”, p.28, Ludwig von Mises Institute

  23 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• There is no such thing as an unreasonable question, or a silly question, or a frivolous question, or a waste-of-time question. It's your life, and you've got to get these answers.

  Marcia Wallace

  Silly, Answers, Waste

  4 Copiar cita

• Tal vez no sea descabellado concluir que una democracia pura y perfecta es algo inalcanzable para el hombre, constituido como está por elementos opuestos de vicio y virtud, y siempre influido principalmente por el principio predominante del interés propio. Puede, en efecto, afirmarse con seguridad que nunca existió ese gobierno llamado república, que no fuera gobernado en última instancia por una sola voluntad, y, por lo tanto, (por atrevida que pueda parecer la paradoja) virtual y sustancialmente una monarquía.

  Alexander Fraser Tytler

  Hombres, Ser, Perfecto

  " Historia Universal: From the Creation of the World to the Beginning of the Eighteenth Century, Vol. I" de Alexander Fraser Tytler, Petridge and Company, (p. 216), 1854.

  10 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Hip to the fact that well-behaved women rarely make history, Diane [Wilson] has already inspired a new movement of totally uncontrollable, irresistible and unreasonable women!

  Medea Benjamin

  Movement, Facts, Hips

  4 Copiar cita

• Por muy irracionales que me parezcan los demás, soy responsable de no reaccionar negativamente. Independientemente de lo que ocurra a mi alrededor, siempre tendré la prerrogativa, y la responsabilidad, de elegir lo que ocurre en mi interior. Soy el creador de mi propia realidad. Cuando [repaso mi día], sé que debo dejar de juzgar a los demás. Si juzgo a los demás, probablemente me estoy juzgando a mí mismo. Quien más me molesta es mi mejor maestro. Tengo mucho que aprender de él o ella y, en el fondo de mi corazón, debo agradecérselo.

  Bill W.

  Profesor, Corazón, Responsabilidad

  243 Copiar cita

• Babies are unreasonable; they expect far too much of existence. Each new generation that comes takes one look at the world, thinks wildly, "Is this all they've done to it?" and bursts into tears.

  Clarence Day

  Baby, Children, Thinking

  "The Crow's Nest".

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Sería una estúpida insensatez y una locura inexplicable que naciones enteras permitieran que un hombre irrazonable, ambicioso y cruel se ensañara en su miseria...

  Jonathan Mayhew

  Estupidez, Hombres, Sufrimiento

  Jonathan Mayhew (1750). "Discurso sobre la sumisión ilimitada y la no resistencia a los poderes superiores: With Some Reflections on the Resistance Made to King Charles I, and on the Anniversary of His Death: in which the Mysterious Doctrine of the Princes' Saintship and Martyrdom is Unriddled: the Substance of which was Delivered in a Sermon Preached in the West Meeting-house in Boston the Lord's-day After the 30th of January, 1749/50...", p.40.

  8 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Los hombres razonables se adaptan a su entorno; los hombres irrazonables intentan adaptar su entorno a ellos mismos. Así, todo progreso es el resultado de los esfuerzos de los hombres irrazonables.

  George Bernard Shaw

  Men, Effort, Progress

  8 Copiar cita

• Dependence goes somewhat against the grain of a generous mind; and it is no wonder that it should do so, considering the unreasonable advantage which is often taken of the inequality of fortune.

  Jeremy Collier

  Taken, Mind, Wonder

  Jeremy COLLIER (the Nonjuror.), J. E. (1838). “Pearls of Great Price: or, Maxims, reflections, characters and thoughts, on miscellaneous subjects ... Selected from the works of the Rev. Jeremy Collier by the editor of “Sir William Jones's Discourses,” etc. [The editor's preface signed: J. E., i.e. James Elmes.]”, p.28

  4 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Tal es la inconsistencia del verdadero amor, que siempre está despierto a la sospecha, por irrazonable que sea; siempre exige nuevas garantías del objeto de su interés.

  Ann Radcliffe

  Amor, Real, Recaída

  Ann Radcliffe (1998). "The Mysteries of Udolpho" (Los misterios de Udolpho), p. 317, OUP Oxford.

  16 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Live. Love. Smile. Hug. Laugh. Dream. Do. Create. Have fun. Be intense. Be audacious. Be unreasonable. Act impeccably. Breathe. Be you. Be different.

  Brian Johnson

  Motivational, Dream, Fun

  55 Copiar cita

• Simplemente no hay comparación entre un hombre armado y otro que no lo está. Es simplemente irrazonable esperar que un hombre armado obedezca a uno desarmado, o que un hombre desarmado permanezca a salvo y seguro cuando sus sirvientes están armados.

  Nicolás Maquiavelo

  Arte, Guerra, Hombres

  52 Copiar cita

• Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

  Eli Broad

  Research, Irrational, Situation

  Eli Broad (2012). “The Art of Being Unreasonable: Lessons in Unconventional Thinking”, p.5, John Wiley & Sons

  10 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• In strange and uncertain times such as those we are living in, sometimes a reasonable person might despair. But hope is unreasonable and love is greater even than this. May we trust the inexpressible benevolence of the creative impulse.

  Robert Fripp

  Love Is, Creative, Despair

  "Robert Fripp's Diary". Robert Fripp, DGMlive.com, May 27, 2010.

  41 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• Sometimes sorrow, sometimes joy. But beneath it all remember the innate perfection of your life unfolding. That is the secret of unreasonable happiness.

  Dan Millman

  Perfection, Joy, Secret

  Dan Millman (2009). "El camino del guerrero pacífico: Un libro que cambia vidas", p.276, ReadHowYouWant.com

  8 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente

• It came down to the obvious point that all the union cared about was the money and these other things certainly didn't matter enough. It's a tremendous situation that they have and it has become burdensome for the teams. Yes, we're asking for some relief going forward. I don't think that was unreasonable.

  Mike Brown

  Equipo, Pensamiento, NFL

  4 Copiar cita

• Time will prolong time, and life will serve life. In this field that is both limited and bulging with possibilities, everything to himself, except his lucidity, seems unforeseeable to him. What rule, then, could emanate from that unreasonable order? The only truth that might seem instructive to him is not formal: it comes to life and unfolds in men. The absurd mind cannot so much expect ethical rules at the end of its reasoning as, rather, illustrations and the breath of human lives.

  Albert Camus

  Men, Illustration, Order

  Albert Camus (2012). "El mito de Sísifo: And Other Essays", p.68, Vintage

  7 Copiar cita

  Mostrar fuente