Top 1200 Rational Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 12

Thinking you've had depression makes about as much sense as thinking you've been run over by a bus. Trust me - you know when you've got depression.

Art is the expression of the conviction that we can have a rational relationship with the world and each other. It isn't the faith or hope that we can, it is the demonstration that we can.

Becoming fully rational is not enough anymore; evidently it can lead to distortions of all the great human possibilities.

The secret story is the one we'll never know, although we're living it from day to day, thinking we're alive, thinking we've got it all under control and the stuff we overlook doesn't matter.

Most of all I admire Mozart's capacity to be both deep and rational, a combination often said to be impossible.

You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water.

I'm just doing what I want. I'm not thinking, like, 'Today I'm going to dress like a woman.' I'm not even thinking about that. I'm just thinking, 'I want to wear this today; I want to be this today.'

A rational model of software is to design it quickly - the economic pressure to improvise presents an interesting challenge.

I like thinking big. If you're going to be thinking anything, you might as well think big.

I wasn't thinking so much of music. I wasnt thinking so much of perfection or stardom or any of that stuff.

Militarism is basically a way of thinking, a certain interpretation of the function of the state; this manner of thinking is, moreover, revealed by its outer forms: by armaments and state organization.

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

I can remember, when I was in college, irritating deeply somebody I was going out with, because he would ask me what I was thinking and I would say I was thinking nothing. And it was true.

The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything except our thinking. Thus, we are drifting toward catastrophe beyond conception. We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.

Writing a book is a way of thinking to me, the only way of thinking that I have found successful.

The only rational liberty is that which is born of subjection, reared in the fear of God and the love of man.

Thinking and spoken discourse are the same thing, except that what we call thinking is, precisely, the inward dialogue carried on by the mind with itself without spoken sound.

I didn't think about whether I was writing poems. I was thinking. And the more I was thinking, the more there was I didn't understand.

The animals are at a level prior to thinking. They haven't lost themselves in thought. We rise above thinking and then we meet them again, where we're both in no-thought. There's a deep connection.

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

One of the great things about being commander in chief is getting to know our men and women in uniform in a very intimate way, whether it's visiting Walter Reed and seeing our wounded soldiers, or being on a base and talking to families, or interacting with them on missions. They're the best of the best: always thinking about the mission, not thinking about credit, not thinking about who's up front.

You have to play offense and defense without thinking, and react like you know what to do, but if you're thinking of where to be and 1,000 other things you can lose focus. You're trying to play hard, but you're overthinking.

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

Disruption never helps your cause. ... It just looks like you're afraid to have rational discussion.

Apathy is a rational reaction to a system that no longer represents, hears or addresses the vast majority of people.

to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to offer.

Here's one from me: 'You have to be aware that everyone else is thinking far too hard about themselves to be thinking about you, whoever you are.' If you want it, you can have it. Once you know that, you can be free.

Children are to be won to follow liberal studies by exhortations and rational motives, and on no account to be forced thereto by whipping.

Some problems are just too complicated for rational, logical solutions. They admit of insights, not answers.

It takes time for change to take place. But then when huge changes are taking place, they are extraordinary. And it requires a kind of philosophical thinking, thinking in terms of epochs.

I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.

We are all born with a powerful herd instinct and it can force otherwise rational people to act in inexplicable ways.

Masterpieces are not single and solitary births; they are the outcome of many years of thinking in common, of thinking by the body of the people, so that the experience of the mass is behind the single voice.

Going through everything in my mind, I kept waking up in the middle of the night thinking Baltimore, thinking this is my fit, this is where I want to be, and they want me.

Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith.

As a rule, I think they are quite impossible. Geniuses talk so much, don't they? Such a bad habit! And they are always thinking about themselves, when I want them to be thinking about me.

I saw a muskrat come out of a hole in the ice ... While I am looking at him, I am thinking what he is thinking of me. He is a different sort of man, that's all.

I think a lot of people don't understand that when I sit out it's not because of this year. I'm thinking about long term. I'm thinking about after I'm done with basketball.

I wasn't thinking that I was two horrors back to back; I was thinking these were characters that I want to play.

I can see there's a connection between not following normal thinking and doing creative thinking. I wouldn't have had good scientific ideas if I had thought more normally.

"Facilitate my thinking" means thinking about who I am as a human being in relation to the world around me. It's how I position myself, how I navigate through this world. That to me is thinking. It is also exhausting to constantly be making art that in some ways responds to the conditions of the world around you. I gave myself permission to turn all of that off, and to lose myself in work.

Angels are thoughts of God--to pray to an angel is to look to a level of pure thinking, divine thinking, and to ask that it replace our thoughts of fear. (Page 27.)

Thinking - in particular abstract thinking, which most of us are introduced to through the study of mathematics and literature - helps us learn that we can become problem solvers.

The most rational cure after all for the inordinate fear of death is to set a just value on life.

And it happened all the time that the compromise between two perfectly rational alternatives was something that made no sense at all.

A person without a shadow should keep out of the sun, that is the only safe and rational plan.

It's characteristic of democracy that majority rule is understood as being effective not only in politics but also in thinking. In thinking, of course, the majority is always wrong.

We have to stop thinking about ourselves so much and start thinking about the environment. We have to change.

When I'm recording a song, I wake up and I'm thinking about it. I go to sleep and I'm thinking about it.

There is no way any rational, reasonable person can say that the Bush Administration has been good for America.

Learning can be a bridge between doing and thinking. But then there is a danger that the person who uses learning as a bridge between doing and thinking may get stuck in learning and never get on to thinking.

Like a lover who spends all his time thinking of his distant love, God has been thinking of me since before I was born, for all eternity.

When I get ready to talk to people, I spend two thirds of the time thinking what they want to hear and one third thinking about what I want to say.

Thinking through quotes, which to say scouring a range of texts for insight, is one way to outline the process of thinking/feeling through a subject.

The world so clamors for action that men and women devote little time to thinking. Many believe in secondhand thinking. They find it easier to ascertain and adopt the thoughts of others than to think for themselves.

I am a rational man, but haven't you heard? i'm also insane. It gives me a unique perspective on things.

The will to believe chases out the rational mind, whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.

If Christians cannot communicate as thinking beings, they are reduced to encountering one another only at the shallow level of gossip and small talk. Hence the perhaps peculiarly modern problem - the loneliness of the thinking Christian.

To take a wife merely as an agreeable and rational companion, will commonly be found to be a grand mistake.

Thinking about language, while thinking _in_ language, leads to puzzles and paradoxes.