Rational Mind Quotes
36 quotes by 28 authors
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Comparatively few people know what a million dollars actually is. To the majority it is a gaseous concept, swelling or decreasing as the occasion suggests.…
— Robertson Davies
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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
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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
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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
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Obsession is so extreme and so hard to imagine with the rational mind that it has a science-fiction-like quality to it-it's almost as if the…
— Susan Cheever
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Anytime that is ‘betwixt and between’ or transitional is the faeries’ favorite time. They inhabit transitional spaces: the bottom of the garden, existing in a…
— Brian Froud
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To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things become possible.
— Brian Froud
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Those guys are doing the Koch Brothers bidding and are against all the evidence of the rational mind, saying global warming does not exit. They…
— Robert F. Kennedy, Jr.
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When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.
— Viola Spolin
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To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its…
— Anne Lamott
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There was only one catch and that was Catch22, which specified that a concern for one's safety in the face of dangers that were real…
— Joseph Heller
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In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.
— Richard Gere
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When the waters of a lake are absolutely still, the lake reflects the trees, the sky, and everything around it perfectly. At the slightest breeze,…
— Alberto Villoldo
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Writing is an act of hope. It means carving order out of chaos, of challenging one's own beliefs and assumptions, of facing the world with…
— Jack Heffron
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A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone’s orders, directives, or controls; it does not…
— Ayn Rand
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It seems to me that my lack of faith is not, as I once thought, a triumph of the rational mind, but rather a failure…
— Zoë Heller
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The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
— Philip K. Dick
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I am continually calming the restless scanning of my rational mind in order to perceive the finer energies that enable me to unitively merge with…
— Ken Keyes Jr.
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One of the essential differences between the liberal and conservative worldview is that the liberals believe in rationality, whereas conservative believe that human events are…
— Thom Hartmann
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At the moment our rational mind stops, hits against a wall ... something else happens. And a bigger mind, like a pearl, rolls in a…
— Natalie Goldberg
Who Wrote These Rational Mind Quotes
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