Change Quote by Stephen Toulmin

Changing ideas is a strain not to be lightly incurred, particularly when these ideas are intimately related to one's self-esteem ... men have elaborated…

— Robert E Lane

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

— Charles Lindbergh

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

— Oscar Wilde

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

— Bertrand Russell

A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he…

— Walter Lippmann

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

— Ayn Rand

A man who has made up his mind on a given subject twenty-five years ago and continues to hold his political opinions after he…

— A. P. Herbert

Man can alter his life by altering his thinking.

— William James

The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought.

— Frank Barron

A man for whom accident discovers sense, is not a rational being. A man only is so who understands, who distinguishes, who tests it.

— Francois de La Rochefoucauld

Irresolution and mutability are often the faults of men whose views are wide, and whose imagination is vigorous and excursive.

— Samuel Johnson

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not…

— Ai Weiwei