Top 1200 Rational Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 7

When our children are old enough, and if we can afford to, we send them to college, where ... the point is to acquire the skills not of positive thinking but of critical thinking.

I'm very rational. I tend to let my head rule my heart.

We are convinced that locking Russia out of Europe is not rational.

When I was 14 I wasn't even thinking of playing professional tennis. I was thinking of going to high school in Sweden then getting a job.

The need for a rational consistency is the hobgoblin of small minds.

Better a superstitious believer than a rational unbeliever.

Reality is very, very contradictory, and so I try to write just perfecting what I see, what I read, what I feel, in a feel-thinking way. Not only giving ideas, or receiving ideas, or trying to explain something, but mainly feel-thinking, a feel-thinking language able to tie the heart and the mind, which have been divorced.

In a time of crisis, there is rational tendency to turn to the writer.

Reason is the substance of the universe. The design of the world is absolutely rational.

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

On the whole, when the unexpected danger happens to you, you're thinking so fast, you're thinking so hard, every bit of you is alive to 'What should I do?' 'What can I do?' There isn't a lot of time for contemplation.

Income is the natural and rational gauge and measure of respectability.

Something like missing a shot, and the next play you're thinking about it, or you give up a play on defense and you're thinking about it, you're frustrated about it, what's happening is that you're really thinking about yourself. You're not connected to the team. And you have to be connected, or those few plays add up.

When incredulity becomes a faith, it is less rational than a religion.

If you wish a wise answer, you must put a rational question.

I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.

Some form of gnosis or immediacy is attached to all thinking as its root-form or primitive origination; every act of thinking has this passive derivation, this coming-into-being of thinking not out of nothing (as it likes to imagine) but out of some unthinkable something. But the most self-abstractivist or self-reductivist kind of thinking cannot tolerate even the notion (much less the traumatic experience or confrontation) of an incurable pathos, a weakness or blind-spot, within consciousness. The very idea is an insult to the autonomy or self-determinability of ego/will/reason.

Knowing where things are, and why, is essential to rational decision making

Science stands for rational thought, faith for superstition and unreason.

Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.

Awareness is not the same as thought. It lies beyond thinking, although it makes no use of thinking, honoring it's value and it's power. Awareness is more like a vessel which can hold and contain our thinking, helping us to see and know our thought as thought rather than getting caught up in them as reality.

There is nothing so disastrous as a rational investment policy in an irrational world.

In times of crisis human beings don't have it in them to be rational.

Insanity - a perfectly rational adjustment to an insane world.

Cricket is not a rational sport in India, and we go overboard.

I'm a very rational person but I pray every day.

I'm an activist and I come from a very socialist background. For me, my thinking was formed by great thought leaders. And wealth preserving wasn't part of my thinking.

Architecture, in itself, at the end of the day, is a rational profession.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

A rational nature admits of nothing but what is serviceable to the rest of mankind.

When the rational mind is shut off, we have the possibility of intuition.

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, and I hope that REBT teaches them how to do it.

If everything on earth were rational, nothing would happen.

If we're talking about the urban landscape as an advanced, forward-thinking art form, there must be some intellectual thinking involved.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

I tend to be cautious and rational, prone to keep everything under control.

It's awful to have to, but I've started thinking about that, you know. 86. I'm thinking, well, maybe I might make it to 90. At least I'd like to have my brains.

At times, I'm thinking negatively, thinking that we don't learn from our mistakes, but then I get more positive-minded. I do believe in the good of humanity.

Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.

I'm so disappointed in the frat parties at Columbia. I'm like an English boy going to an American college. I'm thinking cheerleaders, I'm thinking kegs. That's not what's on the cards.

There is no substantive, rational defense; I mean, the other side doesn't have a case.

Worry lives a long way from rational thought."---Self

As a philosopher, I have a right to ask for a rational explanation of religious faith.

The rational and peaceable instrument of reform, the suffrage of the people.

If we did not have rational souls, we would not be able to believe.

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

The test of real and vigorous thinking, the thinking which ascertains truths instead of dreaming dreams, is successful application to practice.

I believe there are two types of business people - risky and rational.

It is rational Republicans who want to pull the plug on the Trump presidency.

My job is making irrational people do rational things.

Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.

This country is about, in my judgment, aggressive, open debate. There is an old saying: When everyone is thinking the same thing, no one is thinking very much.

Complacency with our traditional judgement based thinking methods is not enough. Our existing thinking habits are excellent just as the rear wheel of a motor car is excellent but not enough. We need to put far more emphasis on creative and design thinking. Judgement and analysis are not enough.

Thinking rationally is often different from "positive thinking," in that it is a realistic assessment of the situation, with a view towards rectifying the problem if possible.

The pursuit of pleasure must be the goal of every rational person.

Lovers are rarely the most rational beings in creation.

To be bothered wherever you go - it's not a rational thing to want at all.

Destruction of the environment is not only rational; it's exactly what you're taught to do in college.

Only the stupid and the wicked can fear rational criticism.

Being so rational, we have created a very simple version of ourselves.