Rational Quotes

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. (Bertrand Russell)
Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world. View quote
Ronald David Laing
The Art of Seeing. It is essential to an architect to know how to see: I mean, to see in such a way that the vision is not overpowered by rational analysis. View quote
Luis Barragán
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason. View quote
Oscar Wilde
To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual. View quote
Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions? View quote
Mary Wollstonecraft
The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth. View quote
Anthony Kennedy
I am an Epicurean. I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus as containing everything rational in moral philosophy which Greek and Roman leave to us. View quote
Thomas Jefferson
To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind. View quote
George Boole
A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information. View quote
Robert Aumann
What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds. View quote
Livy
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. View quote
William Butler Yeats
Of all the ways of defining man, the worst is the one which makes him out to be a rational animal. View quote
Anatole France
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry. View quote
Richard Dawkins
Tragedy speaks not of secular dilemmas which may be resolved by rational innovation, but of the unalterable bias toward inhumanity and destruction in the drift of the world. View quote
George Steiner
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude. View quote
Karl Popper
The intuitive mind is a sacred gift and the rational mind is a faithful servant. We have created a society that honors the servant and has forgotten the gift. View quote
Albert Einstein
It is a mistake to let aesthetics drive your rational decision making. View quote
Cory Doctorow
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability. View quote
Cicero
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men. (Adam Weishaupt)
Gardening is not a rational act. View quote
Margaret Atwood
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection. View quote
Ambrose Bierce
For me, I think the greatest achievements of science is to allow humanity to realize that our world is comprehensible. Through science, rational thinking, we can understand how the universe works. View quote
Jim Al-Khalili
Game theory is a theory of strategic interaction. That is to say, it is a theory of rational behavior in social situations in which each player has to choose his moves on the basis of what he thinks the other players' countermoves are likely to be. View quote
John Harsanyi