Rational Thought Quotes
39 quotes by 36 authors
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Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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No, no, no - you don't argue with concepts. You have to claim Dogma, and therefore leave no room for rational thought.
— Kevin J. Anderson
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Our garden was debated territory between five local cats, and we'd heard that the best way to keep other cats out of the garden was…
— Terry Pratchett
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All changes, even positive ones, are scary. Attempts to reach goals through radical or revolutionary means often fail because they heighten fear. But the small…
— Robert D. Maurer
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Only the heart knows the correct answer. Most people think the heart is mushy and sentimental. But it's not. The heart is intuitive; it's holistic,…
— Deepak Chopra
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Life does not require us to be consistent, cruel, patient, helpful, angry, rational, thoughtless, loving, rash, open-minded, neurotic, careful, rigid, tolerant, wasteful, rich, downtrodden, gentle,…
— Richard Bach
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Big ideas come from the unconscious. This is true in art, in science, and in advertising. But your unconscious has to be well informed, or…
— David Ogilvy
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Painting quickly is a calculated act to block out rational thought.
— Antoni Tapies
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The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.
— Stefan Molyneux
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We cannot discover ourselves without first discovering the universe, the earth, and the imperatives of our own being. Each of these has a creative power…
— Thomas Berry
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The entire history of humanity is marked by a single inexorable movement - from animal instinct toward rational thought, from inborn behavior toward acquired knowledge.…
— Philipp Meyer
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More than ambition, more than ability, it is rules that limit contribution; rules are the lowest common denominator of human behavior. They are a substitute…
— Hyman Rickover
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The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.
— Mariella Frostrup
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Manic depression distorts moods and thoughts, incites dreadful behaviors, destroys the basis of rational thought, and too often erodes the desire and will to live.
— Kay Redfield Jamison
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Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich Hayek should make…
— Philip E. Agre
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It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon these rather than…
— Maxwell Maltz
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The sheer folly of trying to defend a nation by destroying all life on the planet must be apparent to anyone capable of rational thought.…
— Queen Noor of Jordan
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Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational…
— Hugh Laurie
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In sports teams, apart from talk of sporting prowess and the imparting of inspirational thought, an extraordinary amount of time is spent discussing, and flaunting,…
— Harsha Bhogle
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