Top 1200 Rational Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

If you want to feel good, be rational.

Formal art is essentially rational.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Socialism is the renunciation of rational economy.

Do I think that people should in the best of all possible worlds have to go to jail for wanting the US government to pay attention to the warnings of scientists about climate change? Not really. I mean, in a rational world, if all the scientists said, "The worst thing that ever happened is about to happen and here's what you should do to stop it," you would expect any rational system to say, "Oh, sure, OK, let's do something about it." But that's not the world we live in. In the world we live in, you do need people willing to stand up, fight, march and sometimes go to jail.

Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

We should exterminate all rational thought.

I don't delude myself into thinking I'll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especially Sean Hannity.

When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!

Piece of Heaven?" "No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinking.

Kim Jong-un is not a rational person.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

I wouldn't say we were doing that. I think we probably stopped thinking. Though it took a while to stop thinking.

Goethe's thinking was not rigid with inflexible contours; it was a thinking in which the concepts continually metamorphose.

I don't think any extremism is rational.

Design is a thinking process that starts in the head and with sketches. Thinking cannot be done by a computer.

Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

Prayer is thinking and thanking. It is thinking of our many blessings and accepting them with a thankful spirit.

Investment must be rational; if you can't understand it, don't do it.

You may go days without thinking of God, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of you.

There's a fine line between thinking about somebody and thinking about not thinking about somebody, but I have the patience and the self-control to walk that line for hours - days, if I have to.

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

I'm a writer, not an editor, and though the editing rarely cut into my writing time, it did take away from that walking-around-thinking-about-it-when-you're-not-thinking-about-it time that I think is important for writers. When you're half-thinking about what you're working on while driving, cooking . . . just letting things sift and settle, come to you.

Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is another dimension in them that is not thinking but the ability to be aware of thinking. It is not emotion but the ability to be aware of emotion.

To be honest, I'm not even thinking about America. If I was to start thinking about the enormity of 'Downton' and the size of the project, then I wouldn't be able to be very truthful to the work. I would start to watch myself too much. I'm not even thinking about it. Who knows what will happen.

I'm contemplating thinking about thinking...but....it's overrated - just get another drink in!

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

Philosophy is the rational expression of genius.

The technological way of thinking has infected even ethics, which is supposed to be thinking about the good.

We have a high moral responsibility to be rational

Love is the only rational act.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.

Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.

Thinking is always dangerous to the status quo. [...] The moment you start thinking, you'll want to change something.

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

After MIP, it was like, 'OK, there is way more.' We thinking MVP, we thinking All-Star.

Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.

If you start doubting yourself like that, thinking, 'Am I good enough?' - maybe there is a reason you're thinking that.

I'm thinking of you, that's all I do, all the time. You're always the first and the last thing on this heart of mine. No matter where I go, or what I do, I'm thinking of you.

And with joy you realize for the first time "Thinking's just like not thinking — So I don't have to think any more".

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can't do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has.

It looks as if I was thinking what you were thinking." "Actually, you weren't. I was really thinking I needed to ask you a question." "What was that?" "Do you think we should ask Goatee Guy how to find the caterer?" I smiled at him innocently as his eyebrows pratically met above his nose. "I am never going to share my pet peeves with you again."

Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

Positive thinking doesn't guarantee results, all it offers is something better than negative thinking.

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

When people you greatly admire appear to be thinking deep thoughts, they probably are thinking about lunch.

It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.

One right-thinking man thinks like all other right-thinking men of his time that is to say, in most cases, like some wrong-thinking man of another time.

You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

Ultimately there is no power to narcissistic, self-indulgent thinking. Authentic thinking originates with an encounter with the world.

Only the rational and useful is beautiful.

It is not healthy to be thinking all the time. Thinking is intended for acquiring knowledge or applying it. It is not essential living.