--- title: "8 Rational Choice Quotes by 8 authors" description: "Browse 8 Rational Choice quotes by 8 authors. Discover the best Rational Choice sayings and thoughts." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e44/allen-w-wood-2748_abstract_it-is-rational-to-choose-the-right-means_112358.jpg" --- > [It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/allen-w-wood/it-is-rational-to-choose-the-right-means-to-your-ends-to-develop-very/) [Allen W. Wood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/allen-w-wood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e44/allen-w-wood-2748_abstract_it-is-rational-to-choose-the-right-means_112358.jpg) > [“Though designing the house in which modern rational choice/utility/decision theory would inhabit, it is not clear that Ramsey would have chosen to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/cheryl-misak/though-designing-the-house-in-which-modern-rational-choice-utility/) [Cheryl Misak](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/cheryl-misak/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0df/cheryl-misak-136649_equality_though-designing-the-house-in-which-mode_599824.jpg) > [“All six telegrams arrive at the same place together. What happens next is that you make a choice. What will it be?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/deepak-chopra/all-six-telegrams-arrive-at-the-same-place-together-what-happens-next/) [Deepak Chopra](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/deepak-chopra/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/fd2/deepak-chopra-63_choice_all-six-telegrams-arrive-at-the-same-pla_772933.jpg) > [“Question their intentions if you must, comprehension is a far rational choice, than assumption.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/temi-o-sola/question-their-intentions-if-you-must-comprehension-is-a-far-rational/) [Temi O'Sola](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/temi-o-sola/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c0a/temi-o-sola-281917_assumptions_question-their-intentions-if-you-must-co_1527380.jpg) > [Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/willard-gaylin/because-we-are-intelligent-creatures-meaning-that-we-are-freed-from/) [Willard Gaylin](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/willard-gaylin/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/967/willard-gaylin-26360_animal_because-we-are-intelligent-creatures-mea_1727261.png) > [Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/anonymous/faith-is-an-act-of-rational-choice-which-determines-us-to-act-as-if/) [Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/anonymous/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/01b/anonymous-1_certain_faith-is-an-act-of-rational-choice-which_1822290.jpg) > [“If you decide to join up with me, I want it to be because you're making a rational choice, not because you've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/honor-de-balzac/if-you-decide-to-join-up-with-me-i-want-it-to-be-because-you-re/) [Honoré de Balzac](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/honor-de-balzac/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b11/honor-de-balzac-197_choice_if-you-decide-to-join-up-with-me-i-want_2632320.png) > [Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/carter-heyward/love-is-a-choice-not-simply-or-necessarily-a-rational-choice-but/) [Carter Heyward](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/carter-heyward/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8f5/carter-heyward-26837_choice_love-is-a-choice-not-simply-or-necessari_3042696.png) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/rational-choice/#itemlist", "name": "Rational Choice Quotes", "numberOfItems": 8, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "It is rational to choose the right means to your ends to develop very elegant abstract formal theories of rational choice, and then turn these into what look like moral theories. Philosophers tend to be ravished by the formal beauty of such theories, and they don't pay much attention to the fact that our human limitations make them pretty useless in practice, while the simple point about instrumental reasoning is too shallow to be of much real moral interest.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Allen W. 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