Quotes About Thinking Rationally

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.

John Eliot

#5. 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

#6. Life's not easy, it is a hard task to live it well and with grace - but, by Hades, let's not complicate it with deities and water-nymphs!

Michael Moorcock

#7. 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

#8. 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

#9. 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

#10. 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

#11. 1 In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.

Anonymous

#12. If I am to have faith when I pray, I must find some promise in the Word of God to rest my faith on

R.A. Torrey

#13. Keep your jacket buttoned. Always. It's just really flattering - it will take pounds off you.

Tom Ford

#14. A person who commits suicide is not thinking rationally,

John Grisham

#15. The sole function of Government is to bring about a condition of affairs favorable to the beneficial development of private enterprise.

Herbert Hoover

#16. 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.

#17. 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

#18. When human body itself is made of flesh, where is the need to consume the flesh of birds and animals? You should partake of only sacred food. Only then you will have sacred feelings.

Sathya Sai Baba

#19. Here are sweet peas, on tiptoe for a flight; With wings of gentle flush o'er delicate white, And taper fingers catching at all things, To bind them all about with tiny rings.

John Keats

#20. I am not bossy, I am the boss.

Beyonce Knowles

#21. In the little town where I live in Hampshire County, Massachusetts, we now have a 'Public Safety Complex' around the corner from what used to be our hokey Andy Griffith-esque fire station.

Rachel Maddow

#22. I don't think if we had been able to make that choice rationally, we would have said that's what we want to do. We would have said: "Can't we save the banks and solve our health care problems?" The answer is yes. You could have.

Joseph Stiglitz

#23. If the process don't transfer, they cannot even be called thinking. They can be called learning, memory, or habit, but not thinking. The purpose of a course on thinking is to enhance student's abilities to face new challenges and to attack novel problems confidently, rationally and productively.

Marilyn Jager Adams

#24. Intellectualism - the conception of man as above all a thinking animal, consciously adapting means to rationally chosen ends - fell sick with Rousseau, took to its bed with Kant, and died with Schopenhauer.

Will Durant

#25. In Quiet Dell, Phillips mesmerizingly spins together fact and fiction, vividly imagining the circumstances leading to their deaths, and sets a young female reporter on the case to solve it.

Elissa Schappell

#26. I never think of things rationally or intellectually. I swear, every single decision I make is just instinct and my instincts tend to be accurate.

Neill Blomkamp

#27. Living rationally and authentically does not mean that you map out your future by thinking carefully about what it would be like if you chose one path versus another path and then choosing on that basis.

L.A. Paul

#28. Adversity is the adventure of time.

Lailah Gifty Akita