Rational Quotes

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At all events, arbitration is more rational, just, and humane than the resort to the sword. — Richard Cobden
The lived experiences which could not find adequate scientific expression in the substance doctrine of rational psychology were now validated in light of new and… — Wilhelm Dilthey
Wonder, connected with a principle of rational curiosity, is the source of all knowledge and discover, and it is a principle even of piety; but… — Samuel Horsley
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds. — Livy
It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered… — Luis Barragan
China should be developing through the various foreign investments it receives. I hope for its level-headed and rational understanding that anything to discourage that is… — Yoshihiko Noda
Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are. — John Crowley
Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes. — Bob Barr
Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their hearts they know… — Hilary Mantel
The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress. — Rodney Stark
Pope John Paul II was a great presence on the stage. Pope Benedict is a much more gentle and refined person, and I think he… — Vincent Nichols
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal. — Saint Augustine
No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history. — Stephen Jay Gould
They afterwards took me to a dancing saloon where I saw the only rational method of art criticism I have ever come across. Over the… — Oscar Wilde
I cannot account for the existence of evil by any rational method. To want to do so is to be co-equal with God.I know that… — Mohandas Gandhi
It is not because God is irrational that we cannot comprehend him; it is because God is rational, and in the nature of the case,… — Alfred Lord Tennyson
Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature: these are the spur and reins whereby all mankind are set… — John Locke
Pleasure is the object, duty and the goal of all rational creatures. — Voltaire
The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid… — Wilford O Cross
The nearer society approaches to divine order, the less separation will there be in the characters, duties, and pursuits of men and women. Women will… — Lydia M Child

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