Rational Quotes

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Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases which appeal more… — Margaret Atwood
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. — Saint Augustine
Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to lawful self-defense; of… — Frederic Bastiat
Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. — Annie Besant
Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers. — Zbigniew Brzezinski
In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world… — Luther Burbank
Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their… — Benjamin Carson
In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost… — Benjamin Carson
I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. — Noam Chomsky
Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. — A. R. Ammons
A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. — Thomas Aquinas
There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
We have already shown that there is no such thing as free will. That's a will-o'-the-wisp. You never make choices without reasons, not as a… — John Gerstner
In such sad circumstances I but see myself exalted by my own enemies, for in order to defeat some small works of mine they try… — Marcello Malpighi
Still, even the most admirable of atheists is nothing more than a moral parasite, living his life based on borrowed ethics. This is why, when… — Theodore Beale
I condemn false prophets, I condemn the effort to take away the power of rational decision, to drain people of their free will - and… — Gene Roddenberry
In short, I didn't become a Christian because God promised I would have an even happier life than I had as an atheist. He never… — Lee Strobel
That Americans are entitled to freedom is incontestable on every rational principle. All men have one common original: they participate in one common nature, and… — Alexander Hamilton
Violence is essentially wordless. and it can begin only where thought and rational communication have broken down. — Thomas Merton

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