202 Rational Quotes for You to Enjoy

Every time a twenty-something CEO turns down a multibillion-dollar offer for a company that has little or no revenues, it hits a raw nerve in me. Unlike most professionals, I am not shocked by the seemingly bizarre behavior of those founders who pursue their vision beyond all rational thought or monetary reward. Jay Samit

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What people fear most about tragedy is its randomness - a taxi cab jumps the curb and hits a pedestrian, a gun misfires and kills a bystander. Better to have some rational cause and effect between incident and injury. And if cause and effect aren't possible, better that there at least be some reward for all the suffering. Jeffrey Kluger

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We could solve all our problems if only we were the efficient, rational human beings of standard economic theory and had politicians willing to think in the long-term interest of their people rather than their own. Jeremy Grantham

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I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist. Jim Harrison

Good Journalist Enough Rational

Since coming back from overseas, this is more of a foreign country than the places overseas. I don't understand it. It's like America has lost faith in rational thought. Jim Mattis

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Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life. Jimmy Wales

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Making recess appointments when the Senate isn't in recess is neither rational nor moderate. It's a raw misuse of executive power by a president whose love of government is his most vulnerable spot with the electorate. John Podhoretz

America needs a strong, rational, positive, practical conservative movement. It needs that bulwark against liberal delusion and hubris. It needs a voice that says we are imperfect, that life is complex, that government can create need even as it meets need, that you can't fix everything, and freedom is worth some danger and sorrow. Jon Lovett

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The concept of historical necessity is the product of rational thought and arrived in Russia by the Western route. The idea of the noble savage, of an inherently good human nature hampered by bad institutions, of the ideal state, of social justice and so forth - none of these originated or blossomed on the banks of the Volga. Joseph Brodsky

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Few people have ever seriously wished to be exclusively rational. The good life which most desire is a life warmed by passions and touched with that ceremonial grace which is impossible without some affectionate loyalty to traditional form and ceremonies. Joseph Wood Krutch

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

Wealth Medium Definite Rational Sound Real Representative

Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be. Julian Baggini

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I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives. Kathryn Harrison

Our Rational Unconscious Between Always Been Interested Lives Intersection

I am a socialist, a believer in rational thought and the rule of law. Ken Livingstone

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Most investors give too much credence to the theory that prices are rational; they presume that a market collapse must have been justified by serious economic trouble. Kenneth Fisher

Too Much Trouble Too Market Collapse Presume Must Give Economic Rational Prices Investors Most Been Justified Much Theory Serious Credence

A rational system and order for educational administration should be established on the principle of ensuring smooth progress of teaching and scientific research by teachers and researchers, and of edification of students. Kim Jong-un

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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational. Lars Peter Hansen

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I'll wager there isn't a human being on earth who doesn't believe in luck, however rational they pretend to be in public life. In reality, most of human life is luck - and, of course, its darker, more prevalent opposite. One only has to live long enough to experience both. Lawrence Osborne

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