Rational Choice Quotes

#1. If you view yourself as having a value-conferring status in virtue of of your power of rational choice, you must view anyone who has the power of rational choice as having...a value conferring status.

Christine M. Korsgaard

#2. Because we are intelligent creatures-meaning that we are freed from instinctive and patterned behavior to a degree unparalleled in the animal kingdom-we are capable of, and dependent on, using rational choice to decide our futures.

Willard Gaylin

#3. The daughter is the goddess, separately or together, of Infatuation, Mischief, Delusion and Blind Folly, rendering her victims "incapable of rational choice" and blind to distinctions of morality and expedience.

Barbara W. Tuchman

#4. Driven by a concern with institutions, we re-enter the world of the behavioralists. But we do so not in protest against the notion of rational choice, but rather in an effort to understand how rationality on the part of individuals leads to coherence at the level of society. (Bates 1988, p. 399)

Elinor Ostrom

#5. Illegal immigrants make a rational choice when they decide to violate our immigration laws. They weigh the costs, including the risks of getting caught, against the benefits of a better life.

Jan C. Ting

#6. If you decide to join up with me, I want it to be because you're making a rational choice, not because you've been pushed by passion or despair.

Honore De Balzac

#7. All six telegrams arrive at the same place together. What happens next is that you make a choice. What will it be? Most adults know that the rational choice - in terms of health, weight, nutrition, and

Deepak Chopra

#8. I mean what does a democracy depend on? A democracy depends on the individual voter making an intelligent and rational choice for what he regards as his enlightened self-interest, in any given circumstance.

Aldous Huxley

#9. Every skill and every inquiry, and similarly every action and rational choice, is thought to aim at some good; and so the good had been aptly described as that at which everything aims.

Aristotle.

#10. Faith is an act of rational choice, which determines us to act as if certain things were true, and in the confident expectation that they will prove to be true.

Dean Inge

#11. Love isn't crazy. Love isn't a degree of insanity. Love is sanity at its purest. It forces your soul to make a rational choice - a choice to make another person's happiness your priority, to allow them access to your heart and soul.

Lila Felix

#12. The tragedy of being both rational and animal seems to consist in having to choose between duty and desire rather than in making any particular choice

Mortimer J. Adler

#13. Marketers know - no matter how deep the emotional connection or brand loyalty - when a product does not perform, rational thought overtakes emotion, and most consumers make a new choice.

Mark McKinnon

#14. Over the past decades, students who have blindly followed their passion, without rational analysis of whether their choice of career truly was wise, have been more unhappy with their job choices than those who coupled passion with rationality.

Barbara Oakley

#15. Performing, for me, has always been a very inner process.

Barbra Streisand

#16. I feel that one must deliberate then act, must scan every life choice with rational thinking but then base the decision on whether one's heart will be in it.

Jean Shinoda Bolen

#17. My fear is turnout. I think a lot of people might think: 'Well, in the end, it's the rational thing to stay, but I'll let other people make that choice for me.' Don't. This is very close, no doubt about it.

David Cameron

#18. This, in every hour and every issue, is your basic moral choice: thinking or non-thinking, existence or non-existence, A or non-A, entity or zero.

Ayn Rand

#19. People who kill themselves generally suffer from severe clinical depression," I said. "Their reasons for choosing suicide are not always rational. It's often a chemical imbalance that leads them to the choice.

Lisa Unger

#20. All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.

Brigham Young

#21. When you're working on development issues, optimism is not always based on rational analysis, often it is a moral choice.

Jim Yong Kim

#22. The next big frontier in medicine is Energy Medicine.

Mehmet Oz

#23. I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.

Dario Argento

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

Thomas Aquinas

#25. Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#26. [At age 92:] There are places I'd like to return to. But not as I was then but as I am now. 'Cause I'm trying to understand. And I've understood nothing.

Leonora Carrington

#27. What I have against M.B.A.s is the assumption that you come out of a two-year program probably never having been a manager - at least for full-time younger people M.B.A. programs - and assume you are ready to manage.

Henry Mintzberg

#28. But in my defense - yes, I'm defending myself against myself - fear is not rational. It doesn't give you a choice. It just is. So, yeah, I'm afraid.

Samantha Towle

#29. One question," I said. "Did you tell me all that because you think I'm going to die?"
"No," he said. "It's because you're doing something brave, and I felt I should too."
"I'll take that as a yes," I said.

Maureen Johnson

#30. A process of reason is a process of constant choice in answer to the question: True or False? - Right or Wrong?

Ayn Rand

#31. With violence, as with so many other concerns, human nature is the problem, but human nature is also the solution.

Steven Pinker