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Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors. -- Edsger Dijkstra
Fear overrides all rational thinking -- Greg Secker
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking -- Albert Einstein
I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it. -- Jean Shinoda Bolen
The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed to all other attempts at rational thinking. -- H. L. Mencken
In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum rational thinking of our daytime lives. -- Stephen King
The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are. ... Reason is nothing less than the guardian of love. -- Sam Harris
For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works. -- Jim Al-Khalili
Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising. -- Ha-Joon Chang
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture and replaced by science dealing with facts and theories which are intelligible and can be validated. -- Erich Fromm
Fear-bola attacks the part of the brain responsible for rational thinking. It starts with a low-grade concern about the two health care workers diagnosed with Ebola in Dallas and slowly builds into fear of a widespread epidemic in the United States. -- Mel Robbins
The difference in sex does not hinder the ability of being strong on the levels of thinking, giving, having a strong willpower and the ability to take the right decision and the right position after studying all options, once the circumstances that favor creativity and rational thinking are available. -- Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah
If you attach your mind to any ideology, you're going to be on a road, and that road may or may not lead you in a good direction. But you're gonna stay on that road because you are attached to an ideology. It could be a terrible road, but you stick with it regardless of rational thinking. -- Joe Rogan
The re-interpretation and eventually (sic) eradication of the concept of right and wrong which has been the basis of child training, the substitution of intelligent and rational thinking for faith... are the belated objectives of practically all effective psychotherapy. The fact is, that most psychiatrists and psychologists and other respectable people have escaped from these moral chains and are able to observe and think freely. -- Brock Chisholm
Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing. -- Michael Shermer
Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it. -- David Harsanyi
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
The Enlightenment view of mankind is a complete myth. It leads us into thinking we're sane and rational creatures most of the time, and we're not. -- J. G. Ballard
Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse. -- Marianne Williamson
I did a lot of work without thinking about it in a calm, rational way. Stopping and thinking about what I was doing made my music calmer and deeper in tone. -- Bill Callahan
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health. -- John Forbes Nash, Jr.
But when it comes to writing the thing that I've sort of been thinking about lately, is why? You know, is it rational? Is it logical that anybody should be expected to be afraid of the work that they feel they were put on this Earth to do. -- Elizabeth Gilbert
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
Gratitude is the first sign of a thinking, rational creature. -- Solanus Casey
To my mathematical brain, the numbers alone make thinking about aliens perfectly rational, -- Stephen Hawking
We need conscious entertainment that engage and influence its consumer to rational thinking. -- Unarine Ramaru
Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think. -- Peter Watts
A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires. -- Ayn Rand
On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's really proud of. -- Martin Amis
I think my thinking with my heartI act with my thinking from my heartbut I'm just a human being with a heart and not a rational thinker -- Kristian Goldmund Aumann
Cheshvan starts tonight," Rixon said, "What are you doing arsing around in a graveyard?" "Thinking." "Thinking?" "A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision. -- Becca Fitzpatrick
Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit. -- Nirmala Srivastava

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