Rational Quotes

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Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion. — Marilyn vos Savant
Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all. — Harry Seidler
Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing. — Michael Shermer
Respect for another man's opinion is worthy. It is the realization that any opinion is valuable, for it is the sign of a rational being. — Sargent Shriver
Human decision-making is complex. On our own, our tendency to yield to short-term temptations, and even to addictions, may be too strong for our rational,… — Peter Singer
If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its… — Gloria Steinem
George Bush and John Ashcroft were religious in a scary way, but the rational among us could always take heart that, deep down, the Bush… — Matt Taibbi
The auto industry must acknowledge that a rational transportation policy should seek a balance between individual convenience, the efficient use of limited resources, and urban-living… — Stewart Udall
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. — Adam Weishaupt
The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue. — Alfred North Whitehead
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. — Oscar Wilde
I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here. — Robert Anton Wilson
Republicans: steely, rational, paternalistic, respectful of authority, easy to herd, the party of No. Democrats: sugary, emotional, idealistic, yearning for novelty, hard to marshal, the… — James Wolcott
I think of evolution as a myth, like the Norse myths, the Greek myths - anybody's myths. But it was created for a rational age. — Tom Wolfe
Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of… — Mary Wollstonecraft
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason. — Mary Wollstonecraft
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? — Mary Wollstonecraft
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. — William Butler Yeats
Whereas story is processed in the mind in a straightforward manner, poetry bypasses rational thought and goes straight to the limbic system and lights it… — Jasper Fforde
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on… — Horace Mann

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