Rational Quotes
What if I am wrong? Any rational investment plan has to start with that question.
Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.
-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
The creative scientist studies nature with the rapt gaze of the lover, and is guided as often by aesthetics as by rational considerations in guessing how nature works.
I started to call myself a rational therapist in 1955; later I used the term rational emotive. Now I call myself a rational emotive behavior therapist.
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.
Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.
... the happiness of a people is the only rational object of government, and the only object for which a people, free to choose, can have a government at all.
to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
Some people can never learn to ski powder snow without exerting tremendous effort and strength because they allow their rational, left-brain hemisphere to control the entire situation.
Were we a rational society, a virtue of which we have rarely been accused, we would husband our oil and gas resources.
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.
Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.
It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to challenge.
Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.
Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond Earth.
I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one
We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.
We should respect each other as rational beings by trying to achieve our goals through reason and persuasion rather than threats and coercion.
Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.
The movie business is very much like that: people in authority making purely emotional decisions instead of interesting rational ones.
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
If you were a sane woman, I would, of course, behave in a more rational fashion. Since you are a lunatic, however, this is the only way.
Sociotropic voters with biased economic beliefs are more likely to produce severe political failures than are selfish voters with rational expectations.
Whichever theory we adopt to give a rational explanation of human existence, that theory must take into account and explain the mental nature we see at work in all modern communities.
The first and most optimistic response was complete rational expectations econometrics. A rational expectations equilibrium is a likelihood function. Maximize it.
I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but he is not rational.
A guest should be permitted to graze, as it were, in the pastures of his host's kindness, left even to his own devices, like a rational being, and handsomely neglected.
The First Aphorism of Religion Cases: Only the religious convictions of other people are weird. Yours are perfectly rational.
We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.
..the self-knowledge that I am talking about is concrete, verifiable and is tangible like science itself and completely understandable in rational terms.
