Rational Quotes

I've always been attracted to Pertwee's portrayal of the Doctor as dashing man-of-science, charming, sceptical, and rational.

Alastair Reynolds

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

Kathryn Harrison

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Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.

W. Edwards Deming

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While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

Karl Marx

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He who threatens us will find us deaf to his threats. We are willing to listen only to rational arguments.

Menachem Begin

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The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.

Mary Wollstonecraft

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'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

Brigitte Boisselier

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In a way, one gets stability from being able to order the rational mind.

Richard Gere

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Most Jews, like most rational persons, know that their personal identity and their ethnic identity are not one and the same.

David Novak

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Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Vladimir Nabokov

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I'm quite a rational person. I'm not very superstitious, but I really do enjoy horror as a genre.

Gemma Chan

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Hate is irrational. I am a rational person.

Varg Vikernes

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Back in 1968, when I was 30, my entire life blew up. I had a life plan, and it collapsed for no rational reason.

Gail Sheehy

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Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal.

Anatole France

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How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

Mary Wollstonecraft

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The happy medium - truth in all things - is no longer either known or valued; to gain applause, one must write things so inane that they might be played on barrel-organs, or so unintelligible that no rational being can comprehend them, though on that very account, they are likely to please.

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart

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Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

Marilyn vos Savant

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TO fear God, is one of the first and greatest Duties of his rational Creatures.

Charles Inglis

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

Thomas Aquinas

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To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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

Salman Rushdie

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The rational man finds that his share of the cost of the wastes he discharges into the commons is less than the cost of purifying his wastes before releasing them.

Garrett Hardin

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Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

Robert Owen

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We cannot sway extremists with rational thought or with our ideas of right and wrong.

Roxane Gay

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