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Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders. -- Scott Jurek
Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do. -- Neil deGrasse Tyson
Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action. -- W. Edwards Deming
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. -- R. D. Laing
Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience. -- Edward Gibbon
Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally. -- Steven Weinberg
Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. -- Albert Ellis
Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions. -- Noam Chomsky
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people. -- Doris Egan
Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion. -- PZ Myers
Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish. -- Alister E. McGrath
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. -- Adam Weishaupt
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational. -- Albert Ellis
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. -- William Butler Yeats
Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images. -- Eduardo Paolozzi
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. -- Oscar Wilde
Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy. -- Georg C. Lichtenberg
What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish. -- Austin Farrer
What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. -- Thomas Aquinas
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking -- Albert Einstein
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. -- Eleanor Roosevelt
I didn't arrive at my understanding of the fundamental laws of the universe through my rational mind. -- Albert Einstein
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. -- Jane Austen
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. -- Richard Dawkins
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. -- Karl Popper
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. -- Bertrand Russell
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. -- Albert Einstein
As an atheist evolving to agnosticism, and seeking answers to whether or not belief in God is potentially rational, my life was turned upside down 35 years ago by reading C. S. Lewis's Mere Christianity. -- Francis Collins
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge. -- Albert Einstein
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long? -- Gloria Steinem
I think 'vegan' is a beautiful word. It is more than just a description for our diet. I see it as a visible template for an ethical, healthy, responsible, and rational life. Because it describes our character, it says we do not take the life of another living being to satisfy our wants. -- Philip Wollen
I cannot imagine a God who rewards and punishes the objects of his creation, whose purposes are modeled after our own -- a God, in short, who is but a reflection of human frailty. Neither can I believe that the individual survives the death of his body, although feeble souls harbor such thoughts through fear or ridiculous egotisms. -- Albert Einstein
History does not record anywhere at any time a religion that has any rational basis. Religion is a crutch for people not strong enough to stand up to the unknown without help. But, like dandruff, most people do have a religion and spend time and money on it and seem to derive considerable pleasure from fiddling with it. -- Robert A. Heinlein
In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter. -- Ben Carson
In a dream it's typical not to be rational. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing. -- Michael Shermer
While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser. -- Karl Marx
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. -- Frederick Douglass
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. -- Mary Wollstonecraft
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion. -- Marilyn vos Savant
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. -- Harry Seidler
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. -- Robert Owen
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Every aspect of Western culture needs a new code of ethics - a rational ethics - as a precondition of rebirth. -- Ayn Rand
The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way. -- Joyce Carol Oates
There are two kinds of terrorism. Rational terrorism such as Palestinian terrorism and apocalyptic terrorism like Sept. 11. You have to distinguish between the two. -- Alan Dershowitz
Feelings are more dangerous than ideas, because they aren't susceptible to rational evaluation. They grow quietly, spreading underground, and erupt suddenly, all over the place. -- Brian Eno
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational. The real challenge is to work out what aliens might actually be like. -- Stephen Hawking
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational, long-term planning. -- Peter Singer
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. -- Thomas Jefferson
The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living values that protect spaciousness, natural beauty, and human-scale mobility. -- Stewart Udall
Well, love is insanity. The ancient Greeks knew that. It is the taking over of a rational and lucid mind by delusion and self-destruction. You lose yourself, you have no power over yourself, you can't even think straight. -- Marilyn French
We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision. -- Daniel Kahneman
As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the fields and forests were places of adventure and self-discovery. Animals were companions and friends, and the world moved at a slower, more rational pace than the bustling cities where I'd resided my adult life. -- David Mixner
Is management rational? -- Warren Buffett
Few fears are rational. -- Joan Slonczewski
Love isn't rational, it's instinctive -- Laurie Faria Stolarz
Fear overrides all rational thinking -- Greg Secker
Formal art is essentially rational. -- Sol LeWitt
We should exterminate all rational thought. -- William S. Burroughs
Gardening is not a rational act. -- Margaret Atwood
A rational army would run away. -- Baron de Montesquieu
Love is the only rational act. -- Mitch Albom
I am more human than rational. -- Karen Essex
I get rational when I panic. -- Amy Hempel
Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy. -- Ludwig von Mises
Philosophy is the rational expression of genius. -- Alphonse de Lamartine
The world is not a rational place. -- Bette Greene
A rational process is a moral process. -- Ayn Rand
Only the rational and useful is beautiful. -- Yevgeny Zamyatin
By any rational metric, I am boring. -- John Oliver
Better a superstitious believer than a rational unbeliever. -- Nachman of Breslov
In the end, rational policy is always good. -- Paul Keating
Optimism.. is the enemy of the rational buyer -- Warren Buffett
If you want to feel good, be rational. -- Ayn Rand
I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought. -- Harold Ramis
Without passion, any rational person would give up! -- Steve Jobs
Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self -- Mary Roach
Challenge authority; the authority of your own rational convictions. -- Bryant McGill
If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen. -- Fyodor Dostoevsky
A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory. -- W. Edwards Deming
Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation... -- Susanna Clarke
If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational. -- Etgar Keret
It is not music's function to express rational necessities. -- Artur Schnabel
Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational. -- Joey Comeau
We have a high moral responsibility to be rational -- Charlie Munger
Man is many things, but he is not rational. -- Oscar Wilde
In a dream it's typical not to be rational. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. -- Jim Harrison
Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself? -- Ram Dass
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds. -- Livy
Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life. -- Phillip Lopate
If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature. -- Solanus Casey
Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden. -- Periyar E.V. Ramasamy
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. -- William Wycherley
Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason. -- Deepak Chopra
Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism. -- Mario Bunge
A person is an individual substance of a rational nature. -- Boethius
I'm a very rational person but I pray every day. -- Emmy Rossum
Travel penetrates your consciousness, but not in a rational way. -- Milton Glaser
Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life. -- Jimmy Wales
The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs. -- Charlotte Bronte
Fear beyond rational limits forces people to cling to normality -- Hiroya Oku
Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity. -- Jonathan Safran Foer
Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought. -- Antoni Tapies
If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational. -- Noam Chomsky
In rational worlds all the hierarchies of our world are reversed. -- Bruce Crown
Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal. -- Robert A. Heinlein
Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere. -- Raymond Smullyan
The real is the rational and the rational is the real. -- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words. -- Vladimir Nabokov
In real life, I'm very rational, and I'm not very dramatic. -- Sophie Kennedy Clark
Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability. -- Ambrose Bierce
It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational. -- Warren Buffett
Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius. -- Pitirim Sorokin
Faith in God's promises means not always following the expected, rational path. -- Timothy Keller
There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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