Quotes About Rational

Good decisions came less through rational calculation, more from sudden good moods. But so too did some of his worst decisions.

There is a compassion in rational thought that is sometimes missing in religious conviction.

I think I've been rather reasonable about this whole situation. How do you figure? They are still breathing, aren't they?

Just so. And wonder, my friend, is the intellect's most feared foe. Its path is love, and love is the language of humility. The rational mind would stand over it with a bloodstained sword, and in the empty bleakness of its eyes you will see its triumph.

Overall, the research suggests that conspiracy theories appeal to people who seek accuracy or meaning about personally important issues, but lack the cognitive resources or have other problems that prevent them from finding the answers to questions by more rational means

Asking for a ceasefire without reaching a political roadmap first, is not rational and convincing.

I made the case for public ownership in 'Another World is Possible' - a manifesto for 21st-century socialism - as it is the most rational approach for managing resources in the long-term interest of the entire community.

The hostility between India and Pakistan has become a habit to which both the elites have become addicted. Any attempt towards a rational solution to real problems is denounced by chauvinists on both sides.

What matters to me is to find rational solutions for those that are facing difficulties so that France preserves jobs and its ability to innovate.

I'm not a romantic.

The argument for collectivism is simple if false; it is an immediate emotional argument. The argument for individualism is subtle and sophisticated; it is an indirect rational argument. And the emotional faculties are more highly developed in most men than the rational, paradoxically or especially even in those who regard themselves as intellectuals

W]e must leave in order to achieve distance... a new perspective that is rational, understanding, AND loving and obedient, and in keeping with our faith... It is our duty to leave. Not fighting, but moving on.

Love is the only rational act.

We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.

He repeated it carefully, pausing for effect. 'Love is the only rational act.

Let [love] come in. We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become to soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said, 'Love is the only rational act.

The most important thing in life is to learn how to give out love, and to let it come in. Love is the only rational act.

To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.

To obey is the proper office of a rational soul.-Montaigne

We think we don't deserve love, we think if we let it in we'll become too soft. But a wise man named Levine said it right. He said. Love is the only rational act.

The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

Climate change is like that; it's hard to keep it in your head for very long. We engage in this odd form of on-again-off-again ecological amnesia for perfectly rational reasons. We deny because we fear that letting in the full reality of this crisis will change everything. And we are right.5

Most of us chose to oppose the war as an act of folly by a president who mistook himself for a king, and his British sidekick who wanted to be on the winning side of history. There was little interest in the idea that war was a rational policy choice, that the architects of the invasion had unleashed ferocious violence because they could not crack open the closed economies of the Middle East by peaceful means, that the level of terror was proportional to what was at stake.

Its impossible to initiate a rational dialogue with some one about beliefs and concepts if he has not acquired them through reason. It doesn't matter whether we are looking at God, race, or national pride.