Rational Quotes

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If the people of this religion [Islam] are asked about the proof for the soundness of their religion, they flare up, get angry and spill… — Muhammad ibn Abu Bakr
Behind every flinch is a fear or an anxiety - sometimes rational, sometimes not. Without the fear, there is no flinch. But wiping out the… — Julian Smith
In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind. — Richard Gere
Any approach to scientific inference which seeks to legitimize it and answer in reponse to complex uncertainty is, for me, a totalitarian parody of a… — Adrian Smith
Out of an intuitive experience of the world comes a continuous flow of novel distinctions. Purely rational understanding, on the other hand, serves to confirm… — Ellen Langer
The assumption that things which have been conjured in the past will always be conjured in the guiding principle not of rational but of animal… — C.S. Lewis
It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon these rather than… — Maxwell Maltz
Fear overrides all rational thinking — Greg Secker
Humans are ambitious and rational and proud. And we don't fall in line with people who don't respect us and who we don't believe have… — Rachel Maddow
It is man's intrinsic and irreducible self-responsibility to humanize himself, to exercise his entire range of rational and moral resources to raise his mode of… — Kenny Smith
We owe to memory not only the increase of our knowledge, and our progress in rational inquiries, but many other intellectual pleasures — Samuel Johnson
Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational. — Christian Friedrich Hebbel
The history of man is a graveyard of great cultures that came to catastrophic ends because of their incapacity for planned, rational, voluntary reaction to… — Erich Fromm
The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the… — Henryk Skolimowski
If teaching has any purpose, it is to implant true insight and responsibility. Education must lead us from irresponsible opinion to true responsible judgement. It… — Ludwig Mies van der Rohe
Original sin is the only rational solution of the undeniable fact of the deep, universal and early manifested sinfulness of men in all ages, of… — Charles Hodge
Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and restraint.… — Stanley Morison
To conform within rational limits to a given style is no more servile than to pay one's taxes or to write according to the rule… — Elsie de Wolfe
The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought.… — Queen Noor of Jordan
The nuclear bomb is the most useless weapon ever invented. It can be employed to no rational purpose. It is not even an effective defense… — George F. Kennan

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