Rational Quotes

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In my rational mind, I know... that is a very simplistic way of looking at it, but when there is violence of that kind, it… — Linda Vester
Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed… — Joseph Lancaster
I recoil with horror at the ferociousness of man. Will nations never devise a more rational umpire of differences than force? Are there no means… — Thomas Jefferson
In questions of law or of fact conscience is very often confounded with opinion. No man's conscience can tell him the rights of another man;… — Samuel Johnson
After a period in which technocrats attempted to become stars and stars to become politicians, the political void has been occupied by the force of… — John Ralston Saul
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. — Ambrose Bierce
If we state the function of man to be a certain kind of life, and this to be an activity or actions of the soul… — Aristotle
I would never sit and write a song in front of anyone, because you're so vulnerable. I don't know at what point in the process… — Laura Marling
In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully… — Immanuel Kant
Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal. — Robert A. Heinlein
Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. — P.D. James
It is more rational to suspect knavery and folly than to discount, at a stroke, everything that past experience has taught me about the way… — David Hume
Only one rational path is open to us - simultaneous de-development of the [overdeveloped countries] and semi-development of the underdeveloped countries (UDCs), in order to… — John Holdren
If the finding of Coines, Medals, Urnes, and other Monuments of famous Persons, or Towns, or Utensils, be admitted for unquestionable Proofs, that such Persons… — Robert Hooke
Arithmetic starts with the integers and proceeds by successively enlarging the number system by rational and negative numbers, irrational numbers, etc... But the next quite… — Abraham Robinson
Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move… — Henry Ward Beecher
The only weapon we have to oppose the bad effects of technology is technology itself. There is no other. We can't retreat into a nontechnological… — Carrie P Snow
Tension is an interesting quality - and architecture must have it. There should be elements of the inexplicable, the mysterious, and the poetic in something… — Annabelle Selldorf
We have a high moral responsibility to be rational — Charlie Munger
The earlier, more analytic impulse was to use very rational but kind of absurd techniques or tendenciesâ€”mapping, charting, and architectureâ€”to try and make sense of… — Julie Mehretu

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