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Rational Quotes by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or if you have…
- '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…
- Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch…
- If we suddenly plant our foot, and say, - I will neither eat nor drink nor wear nor touch any food or fabric which I…
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- Gardening is not a rational act. — Margaret Atwood
- I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words or phrases… — Margaret Atwood
- If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe. — Saint Augustine
- Finally, is not liberty the restricting of the law only to its rational sphere of organizing the right of the individual to… — Frederic Bastiat
- Refusal to believe until proof is given is a rational position; denial of all outside of our own limited experience is absurd. — Annie Besant
- Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5… — Zbigniew Brzezinski
- In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a… — Luther Burbank
- Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to… — Benjamin Carson
- In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling… — Benjamin Carson
- I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system. — Noam Chomsky
- Poetry leads us to the unstructured sources of our beings, to the unknown, and returns us to our rational, structured selves refreshed. — A. R. Ammons
- A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. — Thomas Aquinas