I don't have the slightest interest in gold. I like understanding what works and what doesn't in human systems. To me that's… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
When I was a kid, I thought that if everyone looked up the way I did then everyone would want to study… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The primary mode of experiencing images is non-verbal... but once it's brought out into the light of the day, what's understood by… — John Paul Caponigro Copy Share Image
“Four times during the first six days they were assembled and briefed and then sent back. Once, they took off and were… — Joseph Heller Copy Share Image
Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason. — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
Aristotle thought that humans are rational animals and Hobbes thought that we act on the basis of rational self-interest. If only! It's… — Dale Jamieson Copy Share Image
The claim is also sometimes made that science is as arbitrary or irrational as all other claims to knowledge, or that reason… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
In fact, in more cases than not, when we are rational, we're actually unhappy. Emotion is good; passion is good. Being into… — Frank Luntz Copy Share Image
When we strive to remove all risk from childhood we also remove the foundations of a rational adulthood, and we eliminate the… — Gever Tulley Copy Share Image
The introduction of homeopathy forced the old school doctor to stir around and learn something of a rational nature about his business.… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to… — Raymond Williams Copy Share Image
Regardless of the method, the act of worship must be in spirit and truth-from our rational consciousness and consistent with the rest… — Darlene Zschech Copy Share Image
I'm not emotional about investments. Investing is something where you have to be purely rational and not let emotion affect your decision… — Bill Ackman Copy Share Image
Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves. — Elliot Aronson Copy Share Image
Plato--who may have understood better what forms the mind of man than do some of our contemporaries who want their children exposed… — Bruno Bettelheim Copy Share Image
We shouldn't even need the word 'atheism'. If people didn't invent ridiculous imaginary gods, rational people wouldn't have to deny them. — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession. — Jimenez Lai Copy Share Image
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational. — John Wilmot Copy Share Image
A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless. — Greg L. Bahnsen Copy Share Image
Gourmandise is an impassioned, rational, and habitual preference for all objects which flatter the sense of taste. — Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Copy Share Image
I never overestimate the audience, nor do I underestimate them. I just have a very rational idea as to who we’re dealing… — Billy Wilder Copy Share Image
Economists operate with this image of the homo economicus, the rational economic agent, and while such agents are rare in the wider… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
