Top 100 Quotes About Rationally
#1. Culture belongs to the imagination; to judge it rationally is to misunderstand its function.
G. Willow Wilson
#2. Socialized medicine must fail for the same reasons all socialism must fail: it offers no system for rationally allocating resources, and instead promotes the overutilization of all resources, ending in bankruptcy.
Llewellyn Rockwell
#3. Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those who choose to be rationally self-interested thereby make the most of their life - and they are morally good because of it.
Craig Biddle
#4. Arthur thought about this, and decided quite rationally that lying was by far the best approach to take.
Graham Moore
#5. Society has provided [children] no rituals by which they become members of the tribe, of the community. All children need to be twice born, to learn to function rationally in the present world, leaving childhood behind.
Joseph Campbell
#6. And if ever you need encouragement, remember at least two sober facts which nobody can rationally deny: that you are a new and unique living force in nature, and that you can, by taking thought and pursuing it, become more and more intensely alive.
John Steeksma
#7. Some people talk about illogical things like love.. But then they can rationally sacrifice their relatives. - Sebastian Michaelis
Yana Toboso
#8. Since we built such sophisticated business machines, people tended to think of IBM as a model of order and logic - a totally streamlined organization in which we developed plans rationally and carried them out with utter precision. I never thought for a minute that was really the case.
Thomas J. Watson
#9. There is a measure needing courage to adopt and enforce it, which I believe to be of virtue sufficient to redeem the nation in this its darkest hour: one only; I know of no other to which we may rationally trust for relief from impending dangers without and within.
Robert Dale Owen
#10. Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.
Joni Mitchell
#11. When one lives in the midst of a lie long enough, it becomes a part of you whether you want to rationally accept it or not.
Leanne Payne
#12. Chances are, if we can't laugh at something, we can't think rationally about it.
Clay A. Johnson
#13. Some people think emotionally more often than they think politically. Some think politically more often than they think rationally. Others never think rationally about anything at all.
No judgment implied. Just an observation.
Neil DeGrasse Tyson
#14. Rationally, I was convinced that the universe without God made no sense, but that simply was not the same as believing. But I also knew that I could not argue myself, or be argued, into faith.
Henry Grunwald
#15. There is no talking rationally, using logic or facts, with someone under the spell of the psychic epidemic, as their ability to reason and to use discernment has been disabled and distorted in service to the psychic pathogen which they carry.
Paul Levy
#16. In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.
Joseph Beuys
#17. The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.
Walter Lippmann
#18. Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.
Albert Ellis
#19. No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson
#20. I forgot, being too interested myself, that he's a king, and does not see things rationally, but as a king. All I've told him means to him simply that his power is threatened, his kingdom is a dust mote in space, his kingship is a joke to men who rule a hundred worlds.
Ursula K. Le Guin
#21. You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!
Marianne Williamson
#22. Rationally, factory farming is so obviously wrong, in so many ways. In all of my reading and conversations, I've yet to find a credible defense of it. But food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, and identity.
Jonathan Safran Foer
#23. And so. And so I choose to go on serving it. I choose to go north, even though like every other direction, it is rationally without hope.
John Green
#24. Yeah. She'd manipulated the second most powerful vampire in town into taking her side against a psycho bitch-queen sorority girl. She'd talked rationally about putting people's brains into computers. This was a normal day. No wonder she was screwed up.
Rachel Caine
#25. I have a reverence for medicine because I hero-worshiped my father [a former doctor], and because I admire doctors, I admire study, empiricism and rational thought. I don't study, empiricize or think rationally myself - but I admire it in others.
Hugh Laurie
#26. I have huge admiration for people who think like the effective altruist, who try to rationally think about how they can change the world for the better, and who try not to be swayed by irrational considerations, such as skin color or whether or not someone lives in the same neighborhood.
Paul Bloom
#27. Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.
Albert Einstein
#28. Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.
John Eliot
#29. In philosophy methods are unimportant; any method is legitimate if it leads to results capable of being rationally discussed. What matters is not methods or techniques but a sensitivity to problems, and a consuming passion for them; or, as the Greeks said, the gift of wonder.
Karl Popper
#30. People do not consciously and rationally choose the form of their society. Societies develop through processes of social evolution that are not under rational human control.
Theodore Kaczynski
#31. The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
Steven Pinker
#32. To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards
Frances G. Wickes
#33. Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.
Daniel Kahneman
#34. Man does indeed know intuitively more than he rationally understands. The question, however , is how we can gain access to the potentials of the knowledge contained in the depth of us, how we can achieve increased capacities of direct intuition and enlarged awareness.
Ira Progoff
#35. In daily life, reality gives us material incentives to restrain our irrationality. But what incentive do we have to think rationally about politics?
Bryan Caplan
#36. I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.
Joe Rogan
#37. Yes, it's difficult to talk to your heart, and perhaps it isn't even necessary. We simply have to trust and follow the signs and live our Personal Legend; sooner or later, we will realize that we are all part of something, even if we can't understand rationally what that something is.
Paulo Coelho
#38. By setting up Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has done everything very rationally.
Walter Schloss
#39. Cut through the ridicule and search for factual information in most of the skeptical commentary and one is usually left with nothing. This is not surprising. After all, how can one rationally object to a call for scientific examination of evidence? Be skeptical of the skeptics.
Bernard Haisch
#40. We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
Eddie Obeng
#41. If we look forward to a future in which mankind behaves rationally and avoids self-destruction, we can visualize a world that will be more complicated than the one we know today, but a world that will run better and, most of all, a world in which the individual will count for more, not less.
Isaac Asimov
#42. Most writers I know move back and forth between the rational and the intuitive, though there are some who approach writing very rationally, and others who claim not to think their work through.
Peter Turchi
#43. Knowing about the neurobiological and evolutionary basis for social behavior can soften the arrogance and self-righteousness that often attends discussions of morality. It may help us all to think a little more carefully and rationally.
Patricia Churchland
#44. It's a very wise thing for people to rationally sit down and look at what the risks are not only on a daily basis, on a weekly basis, on a monthly basis, on a yearly basis, on a lifetime basis, and then plan one's life accordingly.
Benjamin Carson
#45. I'll say this for the man: He never had any problems thinking big. Thinking rationally and responsibly, yes, major problems there ...
Simon R. Green
#46. One might rationally argue that individual human beings should be free choose what moral behavior they approve of, and which they don't, subject to the constraints of the law.
Lawrence M. Krauss
#47. For when moral convictions are reduced to arbitrary preferences, then they can no longer be debated rationally.
Nancy Pearcey
#49. Is that a good definition of marking the ageing watershed? That moment when you realize - quite rationally, quite unemotionally - that the world in the not-so-distant future will not contain you: that the trees you planted will continue growing but you will not be there to see them.
William Boyd
#50. Education gives you the power to think rationally, think better, and be productive in every act.
Debasish Mridha
#51. While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
#52. Trying to replace the common law with a rationally designed law is, he jests, like trying to design a better rhinoceros in a laboratory.
Matt Ridley
#53. The best way to reclaim your dignity is to act rationally and treat yourself lovingly. Do not self-destruct.
Ben Newman
#54. The thing that keeps you scrambling over the rocks, risking snakes, and swatting at the flies is the view. It is only your enjoyment of and commitment to what you see, not to what you rationally understand, that balances the otherwise absurd investment of labor.
Robert Adams
#55. 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
#56. Later, in the afternoon, I read what I did that morning. It's almost always a surprise. But I can read it rationally; edit, polish, re-write, and think what I might do tomorrow in the early darkness.
Jeff Lindsay
#57. Sending people into space is very important culturally. That's really the justification. You cannot rationally justify it on the basis of the science and technology we get out of it.
Kip Thorne
#58. I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife
Kurt Godel
#59. Family relationships trigger childhood wounds, and those wounds often trump our rational thinking. We can't 'rationally' transcend the kind of primal pain that such relationships can arouse.
Marianne Williamson
#60. The last level of metaphor in the Alice books is this: that life, viewed rationally and without illusion, appears to be a nonsense tale told by an idiot mathematician.
Martin Gardner
#61. dialogue led participants not to certainty but to a shocking realization of the profundity of human ignorance. However carefully, logically, and rationally Socrates and his friends analyzed a topic, something always eluded them.
Karen Armstrong
#62. God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
Robert Boyle
#63. I am not particularly religious. But I think we do face the question of where God is, why we are created and where does life go, why we exist. That sort of thing. And it is very hard to talk about it these days, because it cannot be proven. It is hard to discuss it rationally.
Ang Lee
#64. He passes from lyric to epic poetry in order to speak about the world and the torment in the world through man, rationally and emotionally. The poet then becomes a danger.
Salvatore Quasimodo
#65. God looks at the world through the eyes of love. If we, therefore, as human beings made in the image of God, also want to see reality rationally, that is, as it truly is, then we, too, must learn to look at what we see with love.
Roberta Bondi
#66. I saw my parents as model grown-ups, and their manner, their silence, informed my sense of what adulthood looked and felt like. Grown-ups behaved rationally and calmly. Grown-ups worked during the day and came home at night and sat down for drinks and passed the evening quietly.
Caroline Knapp
#67. There's a reason they call it hopelessly romantic.
And not rationally romantic?
Well-developed-thoughtly romantic.
Chloe Neill
#68. (4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man's loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will.
Peter Kreeft
#69. Mark how fleeting and paltry is the estate of man-yesterday in embryo, tomorrow a mummy or ashes. So for the hairsbreadth of time assigned to thee, live rationally, and part with life cheerfully, as drops the ripe olive, extolling the season that bore it and the tree that matured it.
Marcus Aurelius
#71. In science fiction a fantastic event or development is considered rationally.
James Gunn
#72. For me, each game is a new challenge, which has to be dealt with rationally and systematically. At that time, every other thought fades into oblivion.
Viswanathan Anand
#74. There may be occasions when it is best to behave irrationally, but whether there are should be decided rationally.
I. J. Good
#75. A person who commits suicide is not thinking rationally,
John Grisham
#76. Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.
Marc Bloch
#77. When a pope's election could not be explained rationally, it was attributed to the Holy Ghost.
Barbara W. Tuchman
#78. After what Holden and Kevin had told him, and what he could find himself, he just wanted to sit this guy down, talk calmly and rationally, and then beat him so bad his grandkids would be born dizzy and bleeding from the eyeballs.
Andrea Speed
#79. The whole dimension of religious belief requires transcendence, it requires going beyond what you can establish rationally.
George Coyne
#80. Roughly speaking, when you are dealing with business firms operating in a competitive system, you can assume that they're going to act rationally. Why? Because someone in a firm who buys things at $10 and sells them for $8.00 isn't going to last very long in that firm.
Ronald Coase
#81. He supposed he knew, rationally, that she wasn't the prettiest woman in the world, but if his eyes saw any imperfections, his heart didn't care.
Linda Howard
#82. Lead rationally.
Lead responsibly.
Lead resiliently.
Lead reliably.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#83. Having rationally decided to become less rational, we hoped to find new, meaningful, exciting, useful truths. Folk
Mark Vonnegut
#84. We must choose for others as we have reason to believe they would choose for themselves if they were at the age of reason and deciding rationally.
John Rawls
#85. The mind carries you with it, away from what you are supposed to do, toward things that cannot be explained rationally, toward difficulty, lack of clarity, late-afternoon light.
Donald Barthelme
#86. I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter of joy as if someone returned from physical disability to good physical health.
John Forbes Nash Jr.
#87. When you make people angry, they act in accordance with their baser instincts, often violently and irrationally. When you inspire people, they act in accordance with their higher instincts, sensibly and rationally. Also, anger is transient, whereas inspiration sometimes has a life-long effect.
Peace Pilgrim
#88. Rationally speaking, blaming one's behavior on alcohol or drugs is like blaming the ladder by which you descended into a pit, or the staircase that took you down to a cellar, for what you found there.
Graham Joyce
#89. The whole art of politics consists in directing rationally the irrationalities of men.
Reinhold Niebuhr
#90. Here's the perversity of Wall Street's psychology: The more Wall Street is convinced that Washington will act rationally and raise the debt ceiling, most likely at the 11th hour, the less pressure there will be on lawmakers to reach an agreement. That will make it more likely a deal isn't reached.
Andrew Ross Sorkin
#91. People could rationally decide that prolonged relationships take up too much time and effort and that they'd much rather do other kinds of things. But most people are afraid of rejection.
Albert Ellis
#92. We can never speak about God rationally as we speak about ordinary things, but that does not mean we should give up thinking about God. We must push our minds to the limits of what we could know, descending ever deeper into the darkness of unknowing.
Joy Williams
#93. The only systems we can afford to employ are those that rationally serve the planet first, then all humanity. Not out of some woolly, bullshit tree-hugging piffle but because we live on it, currently without alternatives.
Russell Brand
#94. I decided that life rationally considered seemed pointless and futile, but it is still interesting in a variety of ways, including the study of science. So why not carry on, following the path of scientific hedonism? Besides, I did not have the courage for the more rational procedure of suicide.
Robert S. Mulliken
#95. Despite all that I know rationally, and everything that I can put into words, I can say that I have difficulty giving up the notion of the nobility of art.
Aleksandar Hemon
#96. When a planner speaks of implementing goals rationally, he implies that it is possible to demonstrate logically and experimentally the relationship between the proposed means and the ends they are intended to further.
Alan A. Altshuler
#97. *cums* *begins to think rationally*
Unknown
#98. Love rationally.
Love religiously.
Love resiliently.
Love rejoicingly.
Matshona Dhliwayo
#99. How infinitely passionate a thing religion at its highest flights can be. Like love, like wrath, like hope, ambition, jealousy, like every other instinctive eagerness and impulse, it adds to life an enchantment which is not rationally or logically deducible from anything else.
William James
#100. THE MISCONCEPTION: You rationally analyze all factors before making a choice or determining value. THE TRUTH: Your first perception lingers in your mind, affecting later perceptions and decisions.
David McRaney
