Quotes About Rational

Ignorance rises in our community because people do not utlize their common knowledge to express their thoughts to others that can be considered fair and rational.

It is better to be a pragmatist than a lunatic.

Don't let your emotions get in the way of rational decision making.

Archer wouldn't consider her allowance of the guard to be evidence of the powers of rational argument. He'd take it as proof that she was in love with whichever of her guards was the most handsome.

We must trust our thoughts while we sleep. We must trust our hunches. We must begin to examine all of those things that we think of as irrational simply because we do not understand them. In other words, we must distrust the rational, the logical, the sane, in an attempt to reach for something higher, for something more worthy.

In other words, we must distrust the rational, the logical, the sane, in an attempt to reach for something higher, for something more worthy.

If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.

If faith were rational, it wouldn't be—by definition—faith. Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch.

Dar aici este diferenta dintre mintile noastre, draga mea. Eu vreau sa ajung la revelatie purtat de aripi, in timp ce tu inaintezi statornic pe jos, cu lupa in mana. Eu sunt un ratacitor nestatornic, il caut pe Dumnezeu in contururile mari, caut o cale noua de cunoastere. Tu stai cu picioarele pe pamant si masori dovezile palma cu palma. Calea ta e mai rationala si mai metodica, dar eu nu pot sa mi-o schimb pe a mea.

The task of a university is the creation of the future, so far as rational thought and civilized modes of appreciation can affect the issue.

Reason not the need, the man says. Need not the reason.

Só a vida simbólica pode exprimir a necessidade cotidiana da alma.' E como não têm algo assim, as pessoas não podem sair da esfera de sua experiência - essa vida opressiva, terrível, banal em que não são 'nada senão...' e é por isso que as pessoas são neuróticas... A vida é muito racional, não há nenhuma existência simbólica em que eu seja outra coisa, em que eu cumpra o meu papel como um dos atores no divino drama da existência.

Music, as everyone experiences, provides an unquestionable justification and a fulfilling pleasure for the activities it accompanies: the soldier who hears the marching band is enthralled and reassured; the religious man is exalted in his prayer by the sound of the organ in the church; and the lover is carried away and his conscience stilled by the romantic guitar. Armed with music, man can damn rational doubt.

If you have evidence for every proposition you believe, then you will believe infinitely many propositions. So presumably some propositions can properly be believed and accepted without evidence. Well, why not belief in God? Why is it not entirely acceptable, desirable, right, proper, and rational to accept belief in God without any argument or evidence?

It has a sound and rational circulating medium, a real and definite representative of wealth.

I want people to know that I'm not just this crazy person flailing around. A lot of thought goes into what I do.

Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational.

I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

There are plenty of good, rational, compassionate and talented conservatives who deserve a microphone and a platform. It's time to pass the baton to a new generation of leaders who don't speak - or think - like Archie Bunker.

Animal behavior is not purely emotional. Nor is human decision-making purely rational.

A rational anarchist believes that concepts such as 'state' and 'society' and 'government' have no existence save as physically exemplified in the acts of self-responsible individuals.

We assume, without too much thinking, that any regime change in these places will be for the better. But it easily could be for the worse. Both Putin and Xi Jinping are rational actors, holding back more extreme elements. They are bold, but not crazy. The idea that more liberal regimes might replace them is an illusion.

The rational reasons were all rationales for an underlying irrationality.

She had the charisma of the sensible.