No one ever pretended that shopping for anything is a rational experience. If it were, would there be Fluffernutter? Laceless sneakers? Porkpie… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
“THE MISCONCEPTION: You are a rational, logical being who sees the world as it really is. THE TRUTH: You are as deluded… — David McRaney Copy Share Image
Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human society is no less absurd than… — Chris Hedges 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
Man [is] a rational animal, endowed by nature with rights and with an innate sense of justice. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is the considered opinion of most members of our rational élites that, in any given difference of opinion with reality, reality… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will… — Ricky Gervais Copy Share Image
[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Most specifically, irrationality means that rational systems are unreasonable systems. By that I mean that they deny the basic humanity, the human… — George Ritzer Copy Share Image
There is some conflict between religion and science in my world, but that's nothing new. Science, at its root, is a rational… — Patrick Rothfuss Copy Share Image
It's got to be the best intellectual exercise out there. You're seeing through new situations every ten minutes. In the stock market… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
What matters is that they are curious about life, energy, truth, and themselves and that they haven't sold out to the establishment… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost… — Susan Cheever Copy Share Image
The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
Just as Wall Street needs to break the hold of the bonus culture, which drives risk-taking that is rational for individuals but… — Randy Schekman Copy Share Image
“It is one of the greatest Curses visited upon Mankind, he told me, that they shall fear where no Fear is: this… — Peter Ackroyd Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
While reasons are provided by the facts,...rationality...depends instead on our beliefs. [...] [I]f I believe falsely that my hotel is on fire,… — Derek Parfit Copy Share Image
I have sometimes thought there could be no stronger testimony in favor of Religion or against temporal Enjoyments even the most rational… — James Madison Copy Share Image
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But… — Abraham Robinson Copy Share Image
Investors, monarchies, and parliamentarians devised methods to control the processes of wealth accumulation and the power that came with it, but the… — Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz Copy Share Image
Gossip, public, private, social - to fight against it either by word or pen seems, after all, like fighting with shadows. Everybody… — Dinah Maria Murlock Craik Copy Share Image
The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
To some extent, stocks are like Rembrandts. They sell based on what they've sold in the past. Bonds are much more rational.… — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Panic implies that there is no rational thought taking place. That we are frozen and incapable of adjusting. Powerless to logic, and… — Anthony Scaramucci Copy Share Image
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a… — Frederick Pollock Copy Share Image
“We have no rational evidence that there exits another world, but we have a clear feeling that man does not exist only… — Alija Izetbegovic Copy Share Image
Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled. — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“What could be more rational than the decision to use my gifts in a way which would most clearly manifest my moral… — Susan Howatch Copy Share Image
A successful trader is rational, analytical, able to control emotions, practical, and profit oriented. — Monroe Trout Copy Share Image
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to… — Benjamin Carson 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
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works. — Jane Austen Copy Share Image
Serious rational criticism is so rare that it should be encouraged. Being too ready to defend oneself is more dangerous than being… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“One way or another we are all biased, but still we have the modern cortical capacity to choose whether or not to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Answer me this: Is love rational? Is it sane? Can it be tamed and sculpted, like a piece of clay? Of course… — Leigh Hershkovich Copy Share Image
Any time there's something so ridiculously dangerous that no rational human being would try it, they send for me.' --Garion — David Eddings Copy Share Image
But as sickness and diseases have created the necessity of medicines and physicians, so the disorders of our rational nature have introduced… — John Wesley Copy Share Image
In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for… — Lee Iacocca Copy Share Image
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