Rational Quotes

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Feminism is to sexism what black nationalism is to racism; the most rational response to the problem. — Pearl Cleage
We can at least try to understand our own motives, passions, and prejudices, so as to be conscious of what we are doing when we… — Thomas Stearns Eliot
Equality and justice, the two great distinguishing characteristics of democracy, follow inevitably from the conception of men, all men, as rational and spiritual beings. — Robert M. Hutchins
Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves. — Elliot Aronson
life is of no value but as it brings gratifications. among the most valuable of these is rational society. it informs the mind, sweetens the… — Thomas Jefferson
....Man's struggle to be rational about himself, about his relationship to his own society and to other peoples and nations involves a constant search for… — J. William Fulbright
The preservation of our free society in the years and decades to come will depend ultimately on whether we succeed or fail in directing the… — J. William Fulbright
Intelligence is an extremely subtle concept. It's a kind of understanding that flourishes if it's combined with a good memory, but exists anyway even in… — Isaac Asimov
Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.… — Robertson Davies
The more rational statement is that we feel sorry because we strike, afraid because we tremble, and not that we cry, strike, or tremble because… — William James
The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational… — John Culliney
The importance of insomnia is so colossal that I am tempted to define man as the animal who cannot sleep. Why call him a rational… — Emile M. Cioran
If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling… — Sam Keen
The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life. — William Hazlitt
The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example. — Albert Einstein
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational. — John Wilmot
But science can only be created by those who are thoroughly imbued with the aspiration toward truth and understanding. This source of feeling, however, springs… — Albert Einstein
Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape. — Friedrich Nietzsche
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
He who prohibited the making of a graven image would never himself have made an image in the likeness of holy things [i.e., by creating… — Clement of Alexandria

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