202 Rational Quotes for You to Enjoy

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way. Joyce Carol Oates

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Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions. Noam Chomsky

Assumptions Significant Only Rational Shared Discussion Useful Base

Panic implies that there is no rational thought taking place. That we are frozen and incapable of adjusting. Powerless to logic, and subject to seemingly unthinkable behavior. Anthony Scaramucci

Behavior Thought Panic Adjusting Logic Seemingly Rational Taking Implies Unthinkable Powerless Subject Frozen Place Incapable

Unfortunately, most gun control advocates are not really interested in rational debate, and their political games simply send Alice chasing white rabbits down holes. Bob Barr

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational. Thomas Aquinas

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In general I was a good kid. It usually took a lot to make me mad. But once I reached the boiling point, I lost all rational control. Totally without thinking, when my anger was aroused, I grabbed the nearest brick, rock, or stick to bash someone. It was as if I had no conscious will in the matter. Ben Carson

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Our rational minds often attempt to minimise or negate the mystical encounters. We forget the power of our experiences. We must embrace the reality of that event, which is a miracle. Brian Weiss

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You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true. Eliezer Yudkowsky

There is no rational reason to doubt that the universe has existed indefinitely, for an infinite time. It is only myth that attempts to say how the universe came to be, either four thousand or twenty billion years ago. Hannes Alfven

The ancients considered mechanics in a twofold respect: as rational, which proceeds accurately by demonstration, and practical. To practical mechanics all the manual arts belong, from which mechanics took its name. Isaac Newton

Respect Twofold Took Considered Ancient Rational Name Practical Demonstration Accurately Arts Proceeds Which Manual Mechanics Belong

Researchers may like to think that, given all the facts, we make rational choices. Ask economists how that assumption works out for them. No, we are emotional creatures who use value-based reasoning in conjunction with our rationality. Kyle Hill

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Gardening is not a rational act. Margaret Atwood

Gardening Rational Act

We don't look at problems logically, we look at them emotionally. We look at them through the guts. We look at them as if we're doing a high school problem, like what is beautiful, what makes me recognized among my peers. We don't go and think about things. We, as a society, don't wish to engage in rational thought. Sebastian Thrun

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I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. Thomas Jefferson

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Hate is irrational. I am a rational person. Varg Vikernes

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What our leaders and pundits never let slip is that the terrorists - whatever else they might be - might also be rational human beings; which is to say that in their own minds they have a rational justification for their actions. William Blum

Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one. Salman Rushdie

Creation Books Entirely Rational Authors Act Choose Conscious

In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer. A. B. Yehoshua

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