I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. — Ken Livingstone Copy Share Image
We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong. — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
“My need to be around Abby Abernathy overruled any rational thought. It had always been that way, and I imagined it always… — Jamie McGuire Copy Share Image
“I am heartened to find so much wit in you, that you'd give thought to consequences and choose your way with reason,… — Deborah J. Lightfoot 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
Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like… — Jim Mattis 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
Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
“Shane felt a jolt of heat, a desire that threatened to overwhelm rational thought. And perhaps for the moment that was all… — Rebecca York 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
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
In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent… — Harsha Bhogle Copy Share Image
All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear.… — Robert D. Maurer Copy Share Image
I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
“Mia shrugged. “You doom yourselves, Susannah. You seem positively bent on it, and the root is always the same: your faith fails… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
“He knew it was stupid to say he was falling in love with her. They had only known each other for a… — Chessela Helm Copy Share Image
“Oh yes, Sean Kowalski. Your amazing kisses have made all rational thought fly out of my besotted brain. If only you could… — Shannon Stacey Copy Share Image
The concept of historical necessity is the product of rational thought and arrived in Russia by the Western route. The idea of… — Joseph Brodsky Copy Share Image
“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves… — Hal Herzog Copy Share Image
The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior… — Philipp Meyer Copy Share Image
“Except then I wonder what it's like to feel normal because if you take away the things I've felt all my life--the… — Kelley York Copy Share Image
“The “Founding Fathers” were not Christian. They were Deists. Deism was an eighteenth-century rationalist philosophy, emerging from the European Enlightenment. Deists understood… — Monica Sjöö 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
“...her hand closes on smooth metal. Her fingers test the sharpness of the edge. Perfect. It's a fresh blade. The girls' voices… — Julia Hoban 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
“In the 18th century, a revolution in thought, known as the Enlightenment, dragged us away from the superstition and brutality of the… — Charlie Brooker 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
Feelings should never supersede rational thought... so, if you feel that you've got the answer, you should think some more — Julie Ann Elliott-Morton 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
“Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
“Progress of the human society is predicated upon the proper functioning of a key element of the human mind, that is reasoning.” — Abhijit Naskar 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
“Exterminate all rational thought. That is the conclusion I have come to. (William Lee-Naked Lunch)” — David Cronenberg 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
“My anger is like some rudimentary, single-celled beast, an exploding virus of fury that paralyses rational thought and blinds me to everything… — Candace Bushnell Copy Share Image
“I’m beyond rational thought. Beyond words, beyond comprehensible ideas. Seconds are merging into minutes and hearts are collapsing and hands are grasping… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
The child is thinking and receiving vibrational thought from you on the day that he enters your environment. That is the reason… — Esther Hicks Copy Share Image
I always loved movies. I wanted to be in them! I always saw them and said, 'How do you do that?' It… — Richard Jenkins Copy Share Image
