People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
The problem of human suffering is never too much rational thinking, or too high a demand for evidence. But the solutions are.… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons,… — John Gerstner Copy Share Image
The only reason of the institution of civil government; and the only rational ground of submission to it, is the common safety… — Jonathan Mayhew Copy Share Image
“The only relationships that exist are based on truth. Everything else is just a mutual and isolating delusion.” — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
“There is a rational explanation for everything, regardless of whether that explanation is known.” — Koda Copy Share Image
Laws are no longer made by a rational process of public discussion; they are made by a process of blackmail and intimidation,… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America. — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
In our view, though, investment students need only two well-taught courses-How to Value a Business, and How to Think about Market Prices.… — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in… — Charles Hodge Copy Share Image
I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study,… — Hugh Laurie Copy Share Image
I am once more seated under my own vine and fig tree ... and hope to spend the remainder of my days… — George Washington Copy Share Image
Anthony Weiner deserves to be supported and hopefully he will be mayor of New York one day. I'm serious. He is a… — Janeane Garofalo Copy Share Image
Murphy watched me thoughtfully for several empty seconds. Then she said, very gently, "You're a good man, Harry." I swallowed and bowed… — Jim Butcher Copy Share Image
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The… — Anthony Kennedy Copy Share Image
It certainly seems too simple to say what I am going to say, yet it is almost as if you would be… — Seth 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
“One does not learn anything except by believing something, and -- conversely -- if one doubts everything one learns nothing. On the… — Lesslie Newbigin Copy Share Image
There was an idea that God created man different from other animals, because man was rational and animals had drives and instincts.… — Eric Kandel Copy Share Image
A purpose derived from a false premise - that a deity has ordained submission to his will - cannot merit respect. The… — Jeffrey Tayler Copy Share Image
The will and self are ultimately dynamic, they are their actions. This energy can be trained and directed, tuned like an orchestra.… — Kenny Smith Copy Share Image
I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that… — Joseph Stiglitz 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
What reason is there for believing that a high death rate, in itself, is undesirable? To my knowledge none whatever. The plain… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
Brits, Scandinavians, Finns, Estonians consider themselves rational, logical, unencumbered by emotional arguments; we are businesslike, stubborn, and hard-working. — Toomas Hendrik Ilves Copy Share Image
At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
In my opinion, economists and sociologists are the people to whom we ought to turn more than we do for instruction in… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought. — Kevin J. Anderson Copy Share Image
I'm quite a rational person, but I'm drawn to the irrational. I love coincidences, and I like to question that in fiction:… — Lisa Tuttle Copy Share Image
Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Humans alone are created as rational beings in the image of God, capable of a relationship with God and given by him… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
Disruption never helps your cause. ... It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion. — Barney Frank Copy Share Image
Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously,… — Nirmala Srivastava Copy Share Image
And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all. — Neal Stephenson Copy Share Image
In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience. — Richard Baxter Copy Share Image
Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace… — Brian Weiss Copy Share Image
“Tell me I'm not crazy," He said. I couldn't do that. I was nowhere near sane enough at the moment to advise… — Cora Carmack Copy Share Image
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted… — Charles Horton Cooley Copy Share Image
The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written… — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify… — Thomas Huxley Copy Share Image
![“I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't study, empiricize or think rationally myself - but I admire it in others.” quote by Hugh Laurie](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/824/hugh-laurie-2413_admire_i-have-a-reverence-for-medicine-because_1101942.jpg)
![“Anthony Weiner deserves to be supported and hopefully he will be mayor of New York one day. I'm serious. He is a Democrat [who] actually fights for the things liberals and progressive and rational people care about. I don't know why he's being thrown under the bus. He hasn't done any - he hasn't…” quote by Janeane Garofalo](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/91b/janeane-garofalo-1940_broke_anthony-weiner-deserves-to-be-supported_359790.jpg)
![“The true fountains of evidence [are] the head and heart of every rational and honest man. It is there nature has written her moral laws, and where every man may read them for himself.” quote by Thomas Jefferson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4fc/thomas-jefferson-43_every-man_the-true-fountains-of-evidence-are-the-h_163246.jpg)
