Top 1200 Rational Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 6

I'm terrified beyond the capacity for rational thought.

I'll be more enthusiastic about encouraging thinking outside the box when there's evidence of any thinking going on inside it.

The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition has solved more important problems than its rivals, then accepting that tradition is rational precisely to the degree that we are aiming to "progress," i.e., to maximize the scope f solved problems. In other words, the choice of one tradition over its rivals is a progressive (and thus a rational) choice precisely to the extent that the chosen tradition is a better problem solver than its rivals.

I am more human than rational.

At Uniqlo, we're thinking ahead. We're thinking about how to create new, innovative products... and sell that to everyone.

All the new thinking is about loss. In this it resembles all the old thinking

A rational army would run away.

you have to understand. i wasn't just thinking of me. i was thinking of her, too.

When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.

There seems to be no limit to which some men will go to avoid the labor of thinking. Thinking is hard work.

A rational prediction has an explanation based on theory.

I'm always thinking and so even if I'm not on the golf course I'm mentally thinking.

Hedonism can be a rational response to a difficult life.

If everyone is thinking alike, then somebody isn't thinking.

I think the first thing to do is to be aware that you can choose what you're thinking about and that your life is going down the path that you're thinking.

I'm not going to sit around an pretend I'm not thinking things on my blog when I am thinking them and when I'm open to rebuttal.

The rational herdsman concludes that the only sensible course for him to pursue is to add another animal to his herd. And another; and another . . . But this is the conclusion reached by each and every rational herdsman sharing a commons. Therein is the tragedy. Each man is locked into a system that compels him to increase his herd without limit — in a world that is limited. Ruin is the destination toward which all men rush, each pursuing his own best interest in a society that believes in the freedom of the commons. Freedom in a commons brings ruin to all.

Thinking isn't something you think about. It comes naturally. Thinking involves many things. It involves being an observer. It involves analyzing things, taking in what's around you in the world and finding how to make it inspire your work or turn it into a lesson to teach your children; it's paying attention to details. That's what thinking is: processing.

It's a beautiful book [Into the Forest], so for those who are thinking about reading it, they absolutely should. First and foremost, I just devoured it, as a story. At that time, and still, it just encompassed a lot of things that I was thinking about, and that the world is thinking about, with society's relationship to the environment, our personal relationship to it, and how disconnected we are from it, myself included.

Since you got here by not thinking, it seems reasonable to expect that, in order to get out, you must start thinking.

Hate is irrational. I am a rational person.

It is rational to believe, as it is our very existence that is at stake.

What was I thinking? Fact is I wasn't thinking. I didn't want to think. I wanted to feel.

Would that well-thinking people should be replaced by thinking ones.

Because you're not thinking about existence and being, you're not really thinking at all.

Thinking doesn't guarantee that we won't make mistakes. But not thinking guarantees that we will.

By any rational metric, I am boring.

I am not thinking about World Cup and all those things. You can't play freely if you start thinking like that.

The conscious act of thinking about one's thoughts in a different way changes the very brain circuits that do that thinking.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

We need to get rid of all remnants of bureaucracy and bureaucratic thinking, and start thinking like entrepreneurs again.

Think against your feelings; unmask the unbelief they have nourished; let evangelical thinking correct emotional thinking.

When we are not engaged in thinking about some definite problem, we usually spend about 95 percent of our time thinking about ourselves. Now, if we stop thinking about ourselves for a while and begin to think of the other person's good points, we won't have to resort to flattery so cheap and false that it can be spotted almost before it is out of the mouth.

It is not music's function to express rational necessities.

Well, it's possible to be mentally ill and rational.

... writing letters is thinking, just as talking to you is thinking.

A man has free choice to the extent that he is rational.

We are all hunting for rational reasons for believing in the absurd.

When time is running out and the score is close, most players are thinking, I don't want to be the one to lose the game, but I'm thinking, What do I have to do to win?

Can you use the rational mind to transcend itself?

I'd rather know what you're thinking - even if what you're thinking is insane.

If you accept the institutional lunacy, then the policies are rational.

Thinking ahead or thinking behind is not good for me.

Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism.

If everybody's thinking the same thing, then nobody's thinking.

All the new thinking is about loss, In this it resembles all the old thinking.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

Since the election [of Donald Trump], I've been thinking about a lot of theory. Lots of [Michel] Foucault and [Karl] Marx, thinking about different systems, thinking about power. Trying to figure out what I can take and learn from history as a tool for getting through whatever is happening right now, which feels very significant and major.

I used to spend a lot of time just thinking about myself, thinking that the party started when I showed up.

Fuzzy thinking leads to hesitancy in acting. Clear thinking makes it easier to act boldly and consistently.

When you're writing criticism or thinking critically, to draw a very limited minor conclusion from solid evidence is really not thinking.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

But the rational mind usually doesn't decide what emotions we "should" have !

A person is an individual substance of a rational nature.

I work eight hours a day, but I'm not writing all that time. I'm thinking, editing, looking something up. Thinking is what I do a lot of.

Right thinking will be rewarded, wrong thinking punished.

Positive thinking is just one small part of positive psychology. Plus, as an approach to well-being, positive thinking only helps you to the extent that it yields one or more positive emotions. The problem with positive thinking is that it sometimes just stays up "in the head" and fails to drip down to become a fully embodied experience.

I had told my wife that I was thinking of retiring at the end of the year. I was thinking I didn't want to do it anymore, but then I was traded to the Dodgers.

Any clear-thinking person should be able to engage in nuanced thinking when it comes to complex political positions.

Progress is always the product of fresh thinking, and much of it thinking which to practical men bears the semblance of dreaming.