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You're saying, "I'm gonna do this thing," and you have to be aware, as a rational human being, that you may not be allowed back in.
— M. Night Shyamalan
A rational human being of the civilized world would be like the swan that can draw the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water.
— Abhijit Naskar
Life, to be worthy of a rational being, must be always in progression; we must always purpose to do more or better than in time past.
— Samuel Johnson
The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.
— Adam Weishaupt
First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.
— Andrew Bernstein
If we had a better understanding of the ways we think about enemies, we might be able to think of more rational ways of settling conflict.
— Sam Keen
In theory I am an agnostic, but pending the appearance of rational evidence, I must be classed, practically and provisionally, as an atheist.
— H.P. Lovecraft
Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be.
— Charlie Munger
The will to be totally rational is the will to be made out of glass and steel: and to use others as if they were glass and steel.
— Marge Piercy
If faith were rational , it wouldn't be -by definition- faith.
— Elizabeth Gilbert
Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational.
— Joey Comeau
Analytic and romantic understanding should be united at a basic level. Reassimilate the passions from which the rational mind fled.
— Robert M. Pirsig
Of countering it if that had been the only factor, since all non-rational inborn tendencies are a kind of disease which ought to be fought against.
— Michel De Montaigne
Be as beneficent as the sun or the sea, but if your rights as a rational being are trenched on, die on the first inch of your territory.
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
My need to be around Abby Abernathy overruled any rational thought. It had always been that way, and I imagined it always would.
— Jamie McGuire
Division may be rational or irrational. Dominance either seems or is justified. Difference is.
— Catharine A. MacKinnon
The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic.
— Eban Goodstein
Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.
— Steven Weinberg
But love is anything but rational. Love is ugly, and messy. Love makes no fucking sense. And I love him, as impossible as that may be.
— J.M. Darhower
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
— Jane Austen
We must be both rational and intellectual, both analytic and imaginative, utilizing both statistics and insight.
— Lloyd
Man is an emotional animal, occasionally rational; and through his feelings he can be deceived to his heart's content.
— Will Durant
I'm a militant fundamentalist atheist. I'm going to get on a crowded train, unbutton my coat and say rational things. People will be hurt.
— Ricky Gervais
Feelings, which aren't always rational, have their own life span and sometimes, for whatever reason, need to be lived out.
— Melissa De La Cruz
The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.
— Nino Gruettke
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.
— Eleanor Roosevelt
With men he can be rational and unaffected, but when he has ladies to please, every feature works.
— Jane Austen
The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.
— John Polkinghorne
Children must be taught mathematics well in anywhere under every condition at every age and so we can have more rational, more logical societies!
— Mehmet Murat Ildan
[There can be no] rational administration of government when good men are held in the same esteem as bad ones.
— Polybius
All rational beings have an agency of their own; and according to their own choice they will be saved or damned.
— Brigham Young
A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.
— Karen Armstrong
God forgive me for having thought it possible that a schoolmaster could be out and out a rational being.
— Walter Scott
You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic often has to take a backseat to understanding.
— Akio Morita
I argue that we should be kind, we should be compassionate, and we should definitely be reasonable and rational, but that empathy leads us astray.
— Paul Bloom
Today, architecture is invention. It isn't enough to just be rational - It must also be beautiful.
— Oscar Niemeyer
the worst madmen don't seem odd at all," Grimm said. "They appear to be quite calm and rational, in fact. Until the screaming starts.
— Jim Butcher
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
Falling in love is not a rational process. It can't be planned or avoided. It happens
for good or bad it simply happens. - Katrina Svensen — Suzanne Selfors
for good or bad it simply happens. - Katrina Svensen — Suzanne Selfors
It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.
— Warren Buffett
To be engrossed by something outside ourselves is a powerful antidote for the rational mind, the mind that so frequently has its head up its own ass.
— Anne Lamott
There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.
— Aristotle.
... people decided what they thought and would not be moved, not even by the most patient, the most rational argument.
— Alexander McCall Smith
I try to be rational and suppress the hope that this is for real, but hope has a way of closing its eyes to reason and it just keeps growing.
— Tammara Webber
You cannot be a rational subject without veto-control on the level of mental action.
— Thomas Metzinger
A god or revelation capable of proof or rational verification by an autonomous man would be worthless.
— Greg L. Bahnsen
rational recreation" genre. Now, however, magic tricks featuring sympathetic ink began to be added, and they
— Kristie Macrakis
Even the most brilliant and rational person, in the heat of passion, seems to be absolutely and completely divorced from the person he thought he was.
— Dan Ariely
In a dream it's typical not to be rational.
— John Forbes Nash Jr.
How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?
— Mary Wollstonecraft
The being cannot be termed rational or virtuous, who obeys any authority, but that of reason.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
It might not be rational, but I am terrified of getting stuck in an elevator with a bear.
— Dana Gould
But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.
— Frederick Pollock
Certain levels of human understanding cannot be attained, it is claimed, until the brain can work in more than one way.
— Idries Shah
But it was important to be rational at all times, not just when calm.
— Brandon Sanderson
To stand well in the estimation of one's country is a happiness that no rational creature can be insensible of.
— George Washington
You can't behave in a calm, rational manner. You've got to be out there on the lunatic fringe.
— Jack Welch
A man may be hard to persuade by rational argument while he is easily swayed by a display of passion, even if it is feigned.
— Yukio Mishima
You'd be amazed at the grand tales the human brain will throw up to make sense of something nonsensical.
— Dianna Hardy
A rational man acting in the real world may be defined as one who decides where he will strike a balance between what he desires and what can be done.
— Walter Lippmann
Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.
— Plutarch
any rational privateer would have long since scuttled southwards until the weather improved. No prize could be boarded in this. By
— Julian Stockwin
Because Miss Jenkins believes in learned behavior instead of rational thought. What we should be taught is compassionate response.
— Wen Spencer
If you want to feel good, be rational.
— Ayn Rand
Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.
— Marilyn Vos Savant
Discernment can be described as the ability to find the root of the matter, and it relies on intuition as well as rational thought.
— John C. Maxwell
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.
— Doris Egan
North Korea. Not only does North Korean have nuclear weapons, but their leadership appears to not be rational.
— Ted Lieu
We have a high moral responsibility to be rational
— Charlie Munger
We were made to be neither cerebral men nor visceral men, but Men. Not beasts nor angels but Men - things at once rational and animal.
— C.S. Lewis
Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.
— John Crowley
Those who think themselves to be civilized are not always particularly intelligent, or rational.
— Sara Donati
If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.
— Saint Augustine
To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.
— Lord Chesterfield
To be rational is so glorious a thing, that two-legged creatures generally content themselves with the title.
— John Locke
When you deal with irrational animals, with things and circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are rational; they are not.
— Marcus Aurelius
Everything must be organized in the most rational way. The state won't accept excessive prices.
— Vladimir Putin
We believe certain things because they ought to be true.
— Thomas Gilovich
It was on the order of coin or stamp collecting; no rational explanation could ever be given. And high prices were being paid by wealthy collectors.
— Philip K. Dick
If there be such a distinguishing excellency in divine things, tis rational to suppose that there may be such a thing as seeing it.
— Jonathan Edwards
(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
The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Evidently, women are capable of experiencing rational thought and sexual arousal simultaneously, because I appeared to be doing precisely that.
— Diana Gabaldon
The Bible is clear: Truth exists. It can be known. And when we ground our beliefs in it, we are rational.
— Patty Houser
Your daily choices and actions should be rational and productive
— Sunday Adelaja
I'd be a dog, a monkey, or a bear, or anything but that vain animal who is so proud of being rational.
— John Wilmot
The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.
— Albert Einstein