Rationality Quote by Jonah Lehrer Download Open image ““People who are more rational don't perceive emotion less, they just regulate it better.”” — Jonah Lehrer ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Rationality
“It is wise for people to learn how to control their emotions instead of allowing it to overwhelm them and making them behaves irrational.” — Abdulazeez Henry Musa Copy Share Image
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“Few things are as destructive and limiting as a worldview that assumes people are mostly rational.” — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“Emotions are tricky things. If you don't control them, they will control you. And if you're living your life out of control, you'll never… — Lisa Mangum Copy Share Image
“Fear and hate aren’t rational emotions, and they damn sure don’t depend on the existence of valid reasons. People” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
“The key to coping with questionable emotions is knowing that we are in control of them, and not the other way around.” — Jeanne Segal Copy Share Image
“I discovered that those who seldom dwell on their emotions know better than anyone else just what an emotion is.” — John Cage Copy Share Image
“In a world soaked in propaganda, men who were meant to be rational now move almost entirely by emotion.” — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“Apparently rational justifications will never explain all sorts of the different feelings and raw emotions art invoke in people.” — Cristiane Serruya Copy Share Image
“It affects your mind so that you cannot think clearly, or make rational decisions about your own well-being.” — Lauren Oliver Copy Share Image
It's a hard thing to describe. It's just this sense that you got something to say. — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“When the mind is denied the emotional sting of losing , it never figures out how to win.” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Insights, after all, come from the overlap between seemingly unrelated thoughts. They emerge when concepts are transposed, when the rules of one place are… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Every brilliant experiment, like every great work of art, starts with an act of imagination. Unfortunately, our current culture subscribes to a very narrow… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“You break out of the box by stepping into shackles. From Imagine: How Creativity Works pg 23 (hardcover)” — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
So let's not pretend that travel is always fun. We don't spend 10 hours lost in the Louvre because we like it, and the… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“In fact, most of us see perseverance as a distinctly uncreative approach, the sort of strategy that people with mediocre ideas are forced to… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
“Even when alternative views are clearly wrong, being exposed to them still expands our creative potential. In a way, the power of dissent is… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Cities force us to interact with strangers and with the strange. They pry the mind open. And that is why they are the idea… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Distance and difference are the secret tonic of creativity. When we get home, home is still the same. But something in our mind has… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
In fact, the only way to remain creative over time--to not be undone by our expertise--is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things… — Jonah Lehrer Copy Share Image
Truth is much too complicated to allow anything but approximations. — John von Neumann Copy Share Image
I regard individuality as the most precious trait we have, because without it there is no creativity, there is no consciousness, there is no… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“When it comes to the Big Questions in Life, the preponderance of evidence should be our best advisor to inform our Beliefs. The companion… — Brian Goedken Copy Share Image
“When a human being develops an argument, when a human being attempts not only to think but to speak with precision, he or she… — Helen DeWitt Copy Share Image
“It's no use preaching to the choir. The rulebook, evidence, and good, old-fashioned fact-checking – let alone human decency – have been thrown out… — H.M. Forester Copy Share Image
“Once your fairytale gets shattered multiple times, life will finally paint reality in its place.” — VaeEshia Ratcliff-Davis Copy Share Image
“the thing about fear is that it defies the laws of rationality. It creates its own laws instead” — David Levithan Copy Share Image
I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure. — George Saunders Copy Share Image