Top 76 Think Rationally Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Chances are, if we can't laugh at something, we can't think rationally about it.
Clay A. Johnson
#3. The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense
Bertrand Russell
#4. Love is like this amazing, all-consuming force that sneaks up on you and steals all those brain cells that make you think rationally and replaces them with emotions so powerful that you're impotent to change their course.
Melissa Foster
#5. No, she did not want to go to hospital. Yes, she would like a cup of tea. Only then did she begin to think rationally again.
Stieg Larsson
#7. Education should enable a student to think rationally, critically, and ultimately to understand, accept, and adapt with new and old ideas.
Debasish Mridha
#8. *cums* *begins to think rationally*
Unknown
#9. Education gives you the power to think rationally, think better, and be productive in every act.
Debasish Mridha
#10. 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
#11. The rules of friendship are tacit, unconscious; they are not rational. In business, though, you have to think rationally.
Steven Pinker
#12. 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
#13. The best way to reclaim your dignity is to act rationally and treat yourself lovingly. Do not self-destruct.
Ben Newman
#14. By setting up Berkshire Hathaway, Warren has done everything very rationally.
Walter Schloss
#15. 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
#16. While most people can talk rationally about kernel design and portability, the issue of free-ness is 100% emotional.
Andrew S. Tanenbaum
#17. 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
#19. For when moral convictions are reduced to arbitrary preferences, then they can no longer be debated rationally.
Nancy Pearcey
#20. 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
#21. 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
#22. 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
#23. 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
#24. 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
#25. 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
#26. We spend our time responding rationally to a world which we understand and recognize, but which no longer exists.
Eddie Obeng
#27. 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
#28. So sue me, a girl could only think so rationally after a text like that.
Dahlia Adler
#29. 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
#30. 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
#31. 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
#32. 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
#33. I am convinced of the afterlife, independent of theology. If the world is rationally constructed, there must be an afterlife
Kurt Godel
#34. 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
#35. 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
#36. 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
#37. God may rationally be supposed to have framed so great and admirable an automaton as the world for special ends and purposes.
Robert Boyle
#38. 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
#39. 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
#40. 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
#41. 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
#42. There's a reason they call it hopelessly romantic.
And not rationally romantic?
Well-developed-thoughtly romantic.
Chloe Neill
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. Culture belongs to the imagination; to judge it rationally is to misunderstand its function.
G. Willow Wilson
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. Arthur thought about this, and decided quite rationally that lying was by far the best approach to take.
Graham Moore
#50. 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
#51. 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
#52. Some people talk about illogical things like love.. But then they can rationally sacrifice their relatives. - Sebastian Michaelis
Yana Toboso
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. Rationally I have no hope, irrationally I believe in miracles.
Joni Mitchell
#56. 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
#57. 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
#58. 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
#59. In places like universities, where everyone talks too rationally, it is necessary for a kind of enchanter to appear.
Joseph Beuys
#60. The public interest may be presumed to be what men would choose if they saw clearly, thought rationally, acted disinterestedly and benevolently.
Walter Lippmann
#61. 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
#62. No man can rationally live, worship, or love his neighbour on an empty stomach.
Woodrow Wilson
#63. 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
#64. You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!
Marianne Williamson
#65. 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
#66. 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
#67. 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
#68. 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
#69. Good acts are like good poems. One may easily get their drift, but they are not rationally understood.
Albert Einstein
#70. Overachievers don't think reasonably, sensibly, or rationally.
John Eliot
#71. 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
#72. 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
#73. To the rationally minded the mental processes of the intuitive appear to work backwards
Frances G. Wickes
#74. Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.
Daniel Kahneman
#75. 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
#76. I'm afraid of heights. Not unreasonably, but rationally afraid of heights. I think everyone is.
Joe Rogan
