Rational Quotes

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You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. — Anne Lamott
The fact that modern physics, the manifestation of an extreme specialization of the rational mind, is now making contact with mysticism, the essence of religion… — Fritjof Capra
Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was… — Terry Pratchett
Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant — Charlie Chaplin
Even in Europe a change has sensibly taken place in the mind of man. Science has liberated the ideas of those who read and reflect,… — Thomas Jefferson
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being. — Walter Scott
So far as discipline is concerned, freedom means not its absence but the use of higher and more rational forms as contrasted with those that… — Charles Horton Cooley
The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were… — Marge Piercy
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures. — William Wycherley
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society. — Robert Owen
Respect for sovereignity, for privacy, for total independence. Gentle alliances against loneliness, they were, cool rational love-affairs without the love. — Richard Bach
'Tis a short sight to limit our faith in laws to those of gravity, of chemistry, of botany, and so forth. Those laws do not… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and… — George Boole
There prevails among men of letters, an opinion, that all appearance of science is particularly hateful to Women; and that therefore whoever desires to be… — Samuel Johnson
[I]t is truth alone-scientific, established, proved, and rational truth-which is capable of satisfying nowadays the awakened minds of all classes. We may still say perhaps,… — Henri Frederic Amiel
The air of caricature never fails to show itself in the products of reason applied relentlessly and without correction. The observation of clinical facts would… — Wilfred Trotter
Even if the received opinion be not only true, but the whole truth; unless it is suffered to be, and actually is, vigorously and earnestly… — John Stuart Mill
The church at the time was much more faithful to reason than Galileo himself, and also took into consideration the ethical and social consequences of… — Paul Feyerabend
This is why rational people - anti-religionists - must end their timidity and come out of their closet and assert themselves. — Bill Maher
My religious superstition gave place to rational ideas based on scientific facts, and in proportion as I looked at everything from a new standpoint, I… — Elizabeth Cady Stanton

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