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Rational Quotes by Steven Pinker
- Sex and excretion are reminders that anyone's claim to round-the-clock dignity is tenuous. The so-called rational animal has a desperate drive to pair up and…
- The indispensability of reason does not imply that individual people are always rational or are unswayed by passion and illusion. It only means that people…
- The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
More Rational Quotes
- There is one topic peremptorily forbidden to all well-bred, to all rational mortals, namely, their distempers. If you have not slept or… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
- 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
- In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling… — Benjamin Carson
- Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of… — Terry Pratchett
- All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear.… — Robert D. Maurer
- Passive acceptance of the teacher's wisdom is easy to most boys and girls. It involves no effort of independent thought, and seems… — Bertrand Russell
- Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are… — Ha-Joon Chang