Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to…

Cheshvan starts tonight," Rixon said, "What are you doing arsing around in a graveyard?" "Thinking." "Thinking?" "A process by which I use my brain…

— Becca Fitzpatrick

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but…

— Carlos Ghosn

Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

— Jodi Picoult

It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making.

— Cory Doctorow

Thinking. A process by which I use my brain to make a rational decision.

— Becca Fitzpatrick

Don't undermine the science just because you don't like the economics. That's a dangerous slope, because the problem of course is you're not undermining…

— Brian Cox

We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are…

— Dan Ariely

In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in the grounds…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

(Game theory is) essentially a structural theory. It uncovers the logical structure of a great variety of conflict situations and describes this structure in…

— Anatol Rapoport

“The film nicely shows how a person may make a rational decision to achieve a goal while at the same time unconsciously doing everything…

— Renata Salecl

“What could be more rational than the decision to use my gifts in a way which would most clearly manifest my moral and intellectual…

— Susan Howatch

“Standard economics assumes that we are rational... But, as the results presented in this book (and others) show, we are far less rational in…

— Dan Ariely

Two things happen when you're fearful. First, you make seemingly rational decisions that are actually hedges. Or second, you fail to do something because…

— John Landgraf

Amor deliria nervosa: It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being. Symptom number twelve.

— Lauren Oliver

Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should…

— Philip E. Agre