First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker. — Andrew Bernstein Copy Share Image
“Moral education, which ought never, in any circumstances, to be rational.” — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same. — David Novak Copy Share Image
Even the charities I give to are related to things that touch my life, like the Special Olympics. I'm not fully rational;… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go, 'Yeah, well,… — Jonathan Ive Copy Share Image
“When you deal with irrational animals, with things and circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are rational; they are not.” — Marcus Aurelius Copy Share Image
All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
I believe that the subconscious always knows what is best. It is our conditional, vastly overrated rational mind which screws everything up. — Robyn Davidson Copy Share Image
Oh, shame to men! devil with devil damn'd Firm concord holds, men only disagree Of creatures rational. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“If I have to die either for religion or atheism I would prefer atheism, since my conscience will respect my rational decision.” — M.F. Moonzajer 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
Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are… — Paul Feyerabend Copy Share Image
“A misleading perception or false belief is increasingly being perpetuated that the unconscious or the intuitive is all that really matters in… — Anthon St. Maarten Copy Share Image
China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to… — Yoshihiko Noda Copy Share Image
When you think about the abolition of slavery for example, for the ruling class with the rich white people owning plantations and… — Edward Snowden Copy Share Image
Here's all I know: that the world is uncontrollable. Chaos reigns. That anything and everything might be possible. I won't subscribe to… — Kenneth Oppel Copy Share Image
There are ages in which the rational man and the intuitive man stand side by side, the one in fear of intuition,… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Societies would _not_ be better off if everyone were like Mr Spock, all rationality and no emotion. Instead, a balance - a… — David Eagleman 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
“Thinking is man’s only basic virtue, from which all the others proceed. And his basic vice, the source of all his evils,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
To stand on the firing parapet and expose yourself to danger; to stand and fight a thousand miles from home when you're… — Jerry Pournelle Copy Share Image
Upon this law, depend the natural rights of mankind, the supreme being gave existence to man, together with the means of preserving… — Alexander Hamilton Copy Share Image
The way of trust is a movement into obscurity, into the undefined, into ambiguity, not into some predetermined, clearly delineated plan for… — Brennan Manning Copy Share Image
Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich… — Philip E. Agre Copy Share Image
I have found on Alpha that those from an essentially enlightened background feel at home with the parts of the course which… — Nicky Gumbel Copy Share Image
It is slightly chilling to realize there are rational, functional people up there employed to spot, nurture, and exploit those down here… — Jon Ronson Copy Share Image
When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion. — Jules de Goncourt Copy Share Image
TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures. — Charles Inglis Copy Share Image
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. — Eleanor Roosevelt Copy Share Image
I'm excited to bring a dose of moderate, rational conservatism to 'The Cycle.' — Abby Huntsman Copy Share Image
Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
“My brother had never been the most rational of agents, but this one was the ill zinger.” — Junot Díaz Copy Share Image
I just don't understand why the idea of the universe creating itself is a rational one — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
