#unreason

It must always be remembered that what the Constitution forbids is not all searches and seizures, but unreasonable searches and seizures. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#constitution #forbids #must #remembered #searches

The 4th Amendment and the personal rights it secures have a long history. At the very core stands the right of a man to retreat into his own home and there be free from unreasonable governmental intrusion. ↗

— Potter Stewart

#core #free #governmental #his #history

Such is the inconsistency of real love, that it is always awake to suspicion, however unreasonable; always requiring new assurances from the object of its interest. ↗

— Ann Radcliffe

#inconsistancy #love #suspicion #unreasonable #love

It is generally recognised that women are better than men at languages, personal relations and multi-tasking, but less good at map-reading and spatial awareness. It is therefore not unreasonable to suppose that women might be less good at mathematics and physics. ↗

— Stephen Hawking

#better #generally #good #languages #less

I am tough. Sometimes I'm unreasonable. I have to catch myself every once in a while. ↗

— George Steinbrenner

#catch #every #i #i am #myself

I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is. ↗

— Joe Rogan

#everyone #heights #i #i think #rationally

A woman will allow herself to be clouded by her emotions. Her reasonable thought becomes completely unreasonable over the most ridiculous thing. It's a girl thing. ↗

— Lea DeLaria

#becomes #clouded #completely #emotions #girl

They who assert that a blind fatality produced the various effects we behold in this world talk very absurdly; for can anything be more unreasonable than to pretend that a blind fatality could be productive of intelligent beings? ↗

— Charles de Secondat

#anything #assert #behold #beings #blind

...Today the invisible hand seems confused and indecisive...Ideology and rhetoric increasingly guide policy decision, often bearing little relationship to factual reality. And the America we once knew seems divided and angry, defiantly embracing unreason. ↗

— Shawn Lawrence Otto

#science #unreason #relationship

In the ordinary affairs of life we do not require nor expect demonstrative evidence, because it is inconsistent with the nature of matters of fact, and to insist on its production would be unreasonable and absurd. ↗

— Simon Greenleaf

#affairs #because #demonstrative #evidence #expect