Rational Quotes

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It wasn't idealism that made me, from the beginning, want a more secure and rational society. It was an intellectual judgment, to which I still… — Raymond Williams
There is one unmistakable lesson in American history: A community that allows a large number of young men to grow up in broken families, dominated… — Daniel Patrick Moynihan
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers… — Alan Lightman
The British are supposed to be particularly averse to intellectuals, a prejudice closely bound up with their dislike of foreigners. Indeed, one important source of… — Terry Eagleton
Personally, I don't see old economics and behavioural economics as opposed. It is useful to assume people are rational as a good approximation to their… — Evan Davis
In the end, rational policy is always good. — Paul Keating
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction. — Paul Keating
Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are… — Julian Baggini
If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices. — Daniel Kahneman
Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself. — Edward H. Levi
Sometimes, I work a little more from emotion than I do from rational thought. — Ronnie Dunn
After all, we scientific workers ... like women, are the victims of fashion: at one time we wear dissociated ions, at another electrons; and we… — Henry Edward Armstrong
A hundred years ago, Auguste Compte, ... a great philosopher, said that humans will never be able to visit the stars, that we will never… — Michio Kaku
I've always been sceptical about the notion that the market is a person you can engage in an argument with, and that that person is… — Joseph Stiglitz
To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all. — Colin Firth
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the… — Anthony Kennedy
One of the most thoughtless statements, parroted ad nauseam ever since rational concern for our environment exploded into an emotional syndrome, calls Man the only… — Krafft Arnold Ehricke
I understand and sympathize with the reasonable needs of a reasonable number of people on a finite continent. All life depends upon other life. But… — Edward Abbey
Thinking in terms of two realms understands the paired concepts worldy-Christia n, natural-superna tural, profane-sacred, rational-revela tions, as ultimate static opposites...and fails to recognize the… — Dietrich Bonhoeffer
I invent, find, and borrow ways of making painterly statements, which reflect my person to the extent that I am able to reach into that… — Thornton Willis

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