Top 1200 Rational Decisions Quotes & Sayings - Page 16

Man is a conscious, rational thinker and a supra-conscious creator genius.

To a rational being it is the same thing to act according to nature and according to reason.

Why was the judgement of the disapproving so valuable? Who said that their good opinions tended to be any more rational than those of generally pleasant people?

You can't 'work through worry and fear rationally,' because fear isn't rational!

Entrepreneurs don't really make mistakes, though. We just make decisions that seem right at the time, but which sometimes turn out to have been the wrong path to take. For example, we allowed a buyer to place a huge opening order and later had to take some product back. We didn't have our sell-through programs in place, so in hindsight, it would have been wiser to sell in less product at the outset. The scary thing is you are always making decisions without knowing the future.

I was once like you, enlightened and "rational", I too scoffed at lovers, Now I am drunk, crazed, thin with misery. No one is safe! Watch out.

People aren't rational. We're not thinking machines, we're - we're feeling machines that happen to think.

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.

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

I was a choir director for my high school. Of my friends, I was the more rational one, because I was the choir girl!

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

Make women rational creatures, and free citizens, and they will quickly become good wives; - that is, if men do not neglect the duties of husbands and fathers.

I'm very rational, so sometimes I need the facts, and if I don't have the facts, then I get huffy, and I move on.

Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

It is possible for leaders or regimes to be cruel, bigoted, twisted in their world views and still make rational calculations with respect to their limits and their self-preservation.

Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.

I survive by finding the sweet spot between reason and unreason, between the rational and irrational.

Love does not exist. There exists the physical need for intercourse, and the rational need for a mate in life

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

There are men who never err, because they never propose anything rational.

Being a skeptic just means being rational and empirical: thinking and seeing before believing.

I would like people to pay attention to the idea of rational empathy, and that as a society, we are walking down a path that's well-trodden throughout history.

All the dancer's gestures are signs of things, and the dance called rational, because it aptly signifies and displays something over and above the pleasure of the senses.

How is it possible for someone who believes that the world was created in six days to have a rational conversation with me, who doesnt believe that, about other possibilities?

There is usually a clock in our heads regarding decisions we make and the course of our lives. Sometimes this clock is helpful in that it get us to move rather than put off key actions. Other times, it creates us false sense of urgency that can cause us to overreact, lost patience and make poor decisions. In raising this issue in my book, I want people to be aware of the clock in their heads and question whether that clock is helping or hindering the quality of each particular decision.

The only rational way of educating is to be an example. If one can't help it, a warning example.

I have never been able to conceive how any rational being could propose happiness to himself from the exercise of power over others.

Religion is something that gets hammered in early, and never really goes away. And has powers to move which go beyond anything rational.

The human race will then become one family, and the world will be the dwelling of Rational Men.

The ability to make a decision is another characteristic of a winner in money matters. I have found over and over again that those who succeed in making large sums of money reach decisions very promptly and change them, if at all, very slowly. I have also found that people who fail to make money reach decisions very slowly, if at all, and change them frequently and quickly.

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

History does not record anywhere or at any time a religion that has any rational basis.

A person's behavior is rational if it is in his best interests, given his information

Refuse any image that could have a rational meaning or any memory or culture

When you are motivating people to do amazing things, you have to win over both their rational side and their emotive side.

Even in the era of AIDS, sex raises no unique moral issues at all. Decisions about sex may involve considerations about honesty, concern for others, prudence, and so on, but there is nothing special about sex in this respect, for the same could be said of decisions about driving a car. (In fact, the moral issues raised by driving a car, both from an environmental and from a safety point of view, are much more serious than those raised by sex.)

I've always been interested in the intersection between our rational and our unconscious lives.

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

We appreciate every rational and every true comment, and we take criticism very seriously.

I think it's rational to assume the best in other people because most people are pretty decent.

Only to the rational animal is it given to follow voluntarily what happens; but simply to follow is a necessity imposed on all.

I think that rational people in the world know that oil is a very important commodity for the rest of the world.

The major producer of the social chaos, the indeterminacy of thought and values that rational knowledge is supposed to eliminate, is none other than science itself.

Psychologically speaking, the rational, healthy response to climate change is to say to oneself, "What can I do about this?" But that question is often answered through individual action.

There has got to be a point that exists somewhere, when a rational person just has to shake his head and say: 'You know what? Maybe all the crack-pots are right!'

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

What counts as rational argumentation is as historically determined and as context-dependent, as what counts as good French.

The moral is the chosen, not the forced; the understood, not the obeyed. The moral is the rational, and reason accepts no commandments.

It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

Remember, taboos are just a map of what a society feels it's acceptable to be neurotic about. Taboos aren't rational.

There is a difference between having a rational judgment that honey is sweet, and having a sense of its sweetness

Kant was a rational theologian. He did not pretend to be a biblical or revealed theologian.

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

If you're stuck in a rut doing the same thing over and over again, what are you actually, really achieving? I'm someone who strives for success, for self-growth and new experiences, and to make a record that pushes me out of my comfort zone is something that's really exciting. It means you're making new decisions, you're making bold decisions, you're being scared, and you're getting through that - hopefully making something you're proud of, or being in a better position that makes you feel stronger as a human being.

That the vegetable creation should restore the air which is spoiled by the animal part of it, looks like a rational system, and seems to be of a piece with the rest.

To him who looks upon the world rationally, the world in its turn presents a rational aspect. The relation is mutual.

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

An external thing that is knowable [is knowable] by means of something internal that is consubstantial [with the rational soul].