We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“Aristotle very famously said in his Politics I.V.8 that some people are born to be slaves. He meant that some people are… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
“No rational person would intentionally commit an act of evil, for everyone knows that it would bring the wrath of the community… — Karen Essex Copy Share Image
“Every television program must be a complete package in itself. No previous knowledge is to be required. There must not be even… — Neil Postman Copy Share Image
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“Of course I’m getting ideas. You’re hot and I’m not dead. But I know enough not to confuse lust with anything else.”… — Shannon Stacey Copy Share Image
I tried for about a year to write a teenage character until I finally got the phrase 'he has lost the power… — Harry Enfield Copy Share Image
“You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails you, and… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
Our science is like a store filled with the most subtle intellectual devices for solving the most complex problems, and yet we… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
Water creates a neurosis in golfers. The very thought of this harmless fluid robs them of their normal powers of rational thought,… — Peter Dobereiner Copy Share Image
Unlike rational thought, intuition cannot be 'taught' or even turned on. In fact, it is impossible to find or manipulate this intuitive… — Tom Hoover Copy Share Image
“Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. (William Lee-Naked Lunch)” — David Cronenberg Copy Share Image
“Considered interrupting them to note that the entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement—from animal instinct toward rational… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water. — Periyar E. V. Ramasamy Copy Share Image
“To be rational, a person must have well-calibrated beliefs and must act appropriately on those beliefs to achieve goals-both properties of the… — Keith E. Stanovich Copy Share Image
Some of the most powerful memories are those when you are very, very young. Adult life is seen through the reflection of… — Hisham Matar Copy Share Image
More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Instinctively she tried to push him away, only to find that he was too strong to be so easily dispatched. By the… — Catherine Anderson Copy Share Image
“they felt like they were informed. It was a fine line--too much information led to more interrogation and too little information leads… — Stacey Rychener Copy Share Image
“Basically, love and hate activate similar circuits in the brain, but hate also activates the circuits used for rational thought. Which means,… — Cassia Leo Copy Share Image
“The early Wittgenstein and the logical positivists that he inspired are often thought to have their roots in the philosophical investigations of… — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
“.It is asking a great deal of a man, who has learnt to regulate his everyday affairs in accordance with the rules… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
Nobody ever arrives at a very big idea through a conscious, rational thought process. It comes from your unconscious. — David Ogilvy 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
