I never made one of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“Keep your mind open, just not so open that your brain starts leaking - an empty attic is a primate's olympus.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Washington's incredible wastefulness of tax dollars is abhorrent to any sense of fairness or rational thinking. — Mike Espy Copy Share Image
“No Quran, no Bible, no Gita, no Cow, is greater than the human self.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Take action to cool your planet or the planet will take action and cool your life forever.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“If you’re short on your quota of marbles, rational thinking doesn’t apply.” — Joy Ellis Copy Share Image
“That sort of thing doesn't happen any more," reiterated Wensleydale, the rational thinking person. "'Cos we invented Science and all the vicars… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
On any longer view, man is only fitfully committed to the rational -- to thinking, seeing, learning, knowing. Believing is what he's… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science,… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends… — George Bernard Shaw Copy Share Image
“Harmony is not a luxury, it is an existential necessity of the species. And to achieve it, if a hundred Bibles have… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“All that rational thinking had to be thrown out the window. This was why he liked irrational thinking so much better. It… — Abigail Roux Copy Share Image
“Patriotism or Nationalism without reasoning is what I call “Nationalist Fundamentalism”, which is as dangerous as “Religious Fundamentalism”.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“More Important Than Truth (The Sonnet) In the beginning even I was, Bedazzled by the concept of truth. It took me some… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Social scientists in the 1970s broadly accepted two ideas about human nature. First, people are generally rational, and their thinking is normally… — Daniel Kahneman Copy Share Image
“If one does not have the basic conscientious capacity to refute the primitive textual verses of the scriptures that demand one to… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Modern society is modern because of its mental cocktail of reasoning and compassion. Turn the compassion network in the brain off, and… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
I thought I was getting better at this. I thought I was starting to make peace with being in love with a… — Holly Black Copy Share Image
The difference in sex does not hinder the ability of being strong on the levels of thinking, giving, having a strong willpower… — Mohammad Hussein Fadlallah Copy Share Image
“If you believe, God is the supreme creator of everything, then God is also the one who gave you a brain. Use… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“I am yet to find a happy computer, despite being the epitome of rationality. Likewise, I am yet to find a civilized… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Adaptive decision making is the quintessence of rationality, but the items used to assess intelligence on widely accepted tests bear no resemblance… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
“Rather than encouraging people to believe in a literal Goddess, she encourages people to view Her as a metaphor or a work… — Barbara Walker Copy Share Image
“The development of objective thinking by the Greeks appears to have required a number of specific cultural factors. First was the assembly,… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Changing the spelling of one's name to ensure success, performing rituals for good luck, wearing colored gem stones for success in business… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
[T]here seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional… — Robert A. Heinlein Copy Share Image
“Religion and politics have always been used to acquire and maintain control of resources– Especially human resources such as the military– An… — Shawn Corey Copy Share Image
Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
“Real teachers like Jesus, Buddha, Nanak, Rumi have much more to teach humanity, than the imaginary figure Krishna, concocted by an ancient… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Democracy allows rhetoric, false empathy and emotion to pummel rational thinking - so it's no wonder so many politicians thrive in it. — David Harsanyi Copy Share Image
“Listen closely my dear rational brave heart - I do not want you to believe anything I say, unless it can pass… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
If faith cannot be reconciled with rational thinking, it has to be eliminated as an anachronistic remnant of earlier stages of culture… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
“You are not going to heaven if you do good, you are not going to hell if you do evil, you'll simply… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“It doesn't matter whether our certain thought or feeling or behavior is reasonable or not, what we must be aware of is,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Instincts are effective tools of survival, but when it comes to finding true answers to real questions, your rational thinking is the… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Naskar's Razor: When more than one course of action are possible, most humane course is the correct course of action, even if… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
The truth is that Christian theology, like every other theology, is not only opposed to the scientific spirit; it is also opposed… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
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