Rational Quotes
913 quotes by 669 authors
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The investigation of mathematical truths accustoms the mind to method and correctness in reasoning, and is an employment peculiarly worthy of rational beings.
— George Washington
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The kind of evidence that was put before the jurors led to less-than-rational decision-making. I think that juries are composed of good people who can…
— Kenneth C. Frazier
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Proposition 8 fails to advance any rational basis in singling out gay men and lesbians for denial of a marriage licence. Indeed, the evidence shows…
— Vaughn Walker
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Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissingthe…
— Margaret Atwood
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In both writing and sleeping, we learn to be physically still at the same time we are encouraging our minds to unlock from the humdrum…
— Stephen King
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The obsession required to see a feature through from concept to release is not a rational thing to do with your brief time on this…
— Yahoo Serious
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As a spiritual person, nature for me has always been a healing place. Going back all the way to my childhood on the farm, the…
— David Mixner
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Despite all the lunacy of the last century, all the absurdity of war and genocide, we believe that humans being are rational and are made…
— Timothy Radcliffe
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The corporate state is an immensely powerful machine, ordered, legalistic, rational, yet utterly out of human control, wholly and perfectly indifferent to any human values.
— Charles A. Reich
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Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or anomalies; they are perfectly rational responses to the myriad avoidable disappointments that begin in a thoroughly…
— Shalom Auslander
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Love is a choice — not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guide.…
— Carter Heyward
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A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.
— Greg L. Bahnsen
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Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through…
— Theodore Kaczynski
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My religion recognizes no obligation to resolve doubt other than through rational means; and it commands no mere faith in eternal truths
— Moses Mendelssohn
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Unions are for 'collective bargaining,' not individual bargaining. It follows that most of the achievements of a union, even if they were more impressive than…
— Mancur Olson
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I write plays not to make money, but to stop myself from going mad. Because it's my way of making the world rational to me.
— Edward Bond
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You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
— Akio Morita
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Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived from Reason, or…
— David Hume
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Just as a mirror, which reflects all things, is set in its own container, so too the rational soul is placed in the fragile container…
— Hildegard of Bingen
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