Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
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One is tempted to define man as a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
Do not think of knocking out another person's brains because he differs in opinion from you. It would be as rational to knock yourself on the head because you differ from yourself ten years ago.
Horace Mann
In a rational society we would want our presidents to be teachers. In our actual society we insist they be cheerleaders.
Steve Allen
It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.
Bertrand Russell
I never came upon any of my discoveries through the process of rational thinking.
Albert Einstein
The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.
Albert Einstein
Those vendors have had a feature that Rational is missing and that feature is their main selling point. What [IBM wants] to be able to do is give you a place to go to get access to the data and all the tools.
Carey Schwaber
Learn the art of patience. Apply discipline to your thoughts when they become anxious over the outcome of a goal. Impatience breeds anxiety, fear, discouragement and failure. Patience creates confidence, decisiveness, and a rational outlook, which eventually leads to success.
Brian Adams
This fight has gone beyond our rational expectations.
Richard Anderson
It's pretty amazing we haven't had something like this before for people who play outdoor sports, ... It's a pretty rational and reasonable concept. Anything that can help the performance out there, people are always looking for that.
Tiffeny Milbrett
In seeking rational explanations for irrational acts, an explanation becomes the excuse.
Justice Anthony Kennedy
Even the most rational approach to ethics is defenseless if there isn't the will to do what is right.
Alexander Solzhenitsyn
RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.
Ambrose Bierce
If in fact the universe were fully explainable in a self-contained way, maybe it would be rational to simply to an atheist, ... If in fact the universe doesn't seem self-explainable, that gives a rational basis for belief that there is a God.
Commander Majwalter Bradley
I don't think anyone will be confused, because there are no more versions on the shelf than there were before. I do think consumers will be excited because their choices will be more rational.
Barry Goffe
This is a logical, rational reaction to a complex structure, ... It's a good move because there's been an overhang on the stock because of the open cable issue and contract expirations.
Arthur Newman
There's no time anymore for a long lunch -- it cuts too much into the workday. It's not rational, it's not efficient, and it does not pay in terms of family life.
Pasqual Maragall
The circumstances in which Mexico is living have changed. I see an electorate that is much more critical, more rational.
Felipe Calderon
It's the emotional vs. the rational or logical. In many instances, people view these balances as found money, but there are few instances when cashing out makes sense.
John Nersesian
Windows XP is indeed friendly and rational, and its minor inconveniences are normal in a new product.
Francesco Cossiga
They are going for a politically expedient answer to the problem rather than thinking through and doing the heavy lifting. It doesn't seem to be a rational solution.
Brenda Talbert
I am quite confident that their conscience will surface and their rational thinking will surface for the sake of the country.
Alwi Shihab
Clearly the skyscraper is the solution to rational living in high-density populations, because it allows people to use mass transit in order to move people around.
Carol Willis
For the rational, psychologically healthy man, the desire for pleasure is the desire to celebrate his control over reality. For the neurotic, the desire for pleasure is the desire to escape from reality.
Nathaniel Branden
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
Vladimir Nabokov
Kids live everywhere. ... This statute is far from rational, and may in fact be counterproductive.
Stephen Johnsongrove
When people are frightened, they cut their time horizon dramatically, ... Even advisors will say to sell because they see portfolios crumble and they fear people will have nothing left. It's really not rational, but it does happen.
David Dreman
There can be as much value in the blink of an eye as in months of rational analysis.
Malcolm Gladwell
There was only one catch and that was Catch-22, which specified that a concern for one's own safety in the face of dangers that were real and immediate was the process of a rational mind.
Joseph Heller
I was very confident that he had the facts and that he would make a rational decision.
Tommy West
He is the most collaborative, rational, calm person I've ever worked with, in all settings. He's completely data-driven, deliberative and factual, and that serves him well.
Steve Allred
First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.
Andrew Bernstein
Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Orson Welles
Personally, that's what I don't understand, ... You constantly have to be looking over your back, not only for the police but for rival gangs that want to assassinate you. Being a rational person, I don't understand doing that day in and day out.
Bill Powell
We really like the steady pace versus the bubbles that we have had in the past. We like moving from a state of irrational exuberance to a state of rational, healthy optimism.
Kate Mitchell
How quickly the gun was pulled, it didn't seem like there was rational thinking there so that's what was very scary.
Amanda Ogden
Prices for existing housing will continue to trudge up a little bit, by 5 percent to 7 percent a year, but not at double-digit numbers. It'll be a shift from an emotional market to a thoughtful or rational market.
Mark Riedy
The first rational plan in any sense that I've seen from Nasa in decades.
Robert Zubrin
The incumbent airlines undoubtedly will lower many of their fares to the same level Oasis does, and the customers will most likely make the rational choice to fly with the known commodities, with their established safety histories and frequent flier programs.
Richard Pinkham
The market's applauding the resolve of the Fed and acting accordingly, ... In that way, its behavior is rational.
Anthony Crescenzi
My primary issue is health care and I (feel) I am the only one who has approached it with a rational plan that is affordable. What I don't want is the Canadian plan where a person goes to the doctor 200 times a year because they are lonely.
Charles Weasel
His most rational response to my attempts at drawing him out about literature and art was 'I adore italics, don't you?'
Siegfried Sassoon
Control of all three of these projects under one management team should lead to a more rational market.
Michael Gambardella
There's so much truth about frustration and desperation. These two characters are so beaten down, but they find something to cling to. I think the brain has a way of clinging onto things that may not be rational, but they get you through the moment, and that's what the characters do so much of.
Tracy Franklin
Short of building an electrified border, we cannot stop the flow. We have to form laws so we can control the flow [of immigrants] in a rational way, but also match the supply of these workers to the demand there is for them.
Maria Juega
We just need a more rational balance between profits and risks.
Wang Dongsheng
If he decided to kill himself, I don't know where he was at, whether it was depression or a rational act. I suppose suicide could be rationally justified as an alternative to being held in our prisons.
David Barrow
Love is a choice -- not simply, or necessarily, a rational choice, but rather a willingness to be present to others without pretense or guile.
Carter Heyward
The reality of it is that private banks are not behaving from an economically rational point of view. From a shareholders point of view, there should have been an enormous amount of mergers.
Ray Soudah
I think it's a good overall environment for venture capital right now. It's a much more rational market right now.
Jessica Canning
The rational basis behind the prohibition on termination of pregnancy is the preservation of potential human life, ... With an anencephalic fetus, there is no life. Therefore, it's irrational, and I would say cruel, to apply the restriction in a case like Jane Doe's. This is about the government making this principle that is irrational and tragic.
Lisa Stone
The numerous convictions of ... fathers and day-care workers based on memories fabricated by neurotics and therapists, or on coaxed-out lurid fantasies of pre-rational children, testify to the destructive effects false knowledge can have, particularly when it cloaks itself in pseudoscientific jargon.
Bruce Thornton
In rational dollars-and-cents terms, e-mail outsourcing makes a lot of sense. Most companies aren't doing very much (with e-mail) that is unique.
Tim Sloane
The rational individualist is not the enemy of benevolence or civility, but their truest exemplar.
David E. Kelley
What they're really developing is equipment to do a rational space station and a Moon programme later.
Robert Zubrin
Insanity: a perfectly rational adjustment to the insane world.
R. D. Laing
We want rational oil production. It is a non-renewable resource and therefore we cannot exploit it abusively.
Miguel Oyono Ndong
No rational trier of fact could find that the infringing Flying B logo enabled the defendants to generate more income ... than they would have otherwise done.
Robert King
Good fellowship and friendship are lasting, rational and manly pleasures.
William Wycherley
Oh yes - of course they set the agenda. Could you imagine a Clement Atlee becoming prime minister now? You have to see the way that politicians, in order to succeed, have to be emotionally available, as opposed to coldly rational.
Michael Buerk
Election campaigns are always a bad time for rational discussions on foreign policy.
Karsten Voigt
Courts of law, and all the paraphernalia and folly of law cannot be found in a rational state of society.
Robert Owen
What we're announcing is that Rational Functional Tester is now supporting executions in that shell.
Jeff Schuster
I think I got off on the wrong planet. Beam me up Scotty, there's no rational life here.
Robert Anton Wilson
To them it's a rational choice. It's just the best computer around.
Leander Kahney
It makes more sense than the piecemeal process in use today. Gov. Romney looks forward to working with the entire New England delegation on a more rational permitting process.
Julie Teer
I now need to reflect on my experience -- was I foolhardy or rational? -- and also to enjoy freedom in peace and quiet.
Norman Kember
The role of a town administrator is to provide factual information for elected policy makers to make rational and informed decisions. It is incumbent on the administrator to present the most accurate information.
Bruce R. Keiser
Our findings provide a rational explanation for why H 5 N 1 viruses rarely infect and spread from human to human, although they can replicate efficiently in the lungs.
Yoshihiro Kawaoka
The problem with hypothetical risks is, when do they become rational and when do they pass into the boundary of the irrational?
Michael Shamos
Nonsense ought to be treated as nonsense wherever it be found, and had this been done in the rational manner it ought to have been done, instead of intimating and mincing the matter as has been too much the case, the nonsense and false doctrine of th.
Curtis Mcdougall
No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.
Karl Popper
That's just not what good people do, ... It's been proven that good people can use rational decisions about what's necessary to save their life.
Wayne Lapierre
It's a pretty pathetic addiction. I'd sit there actually concerned, really hoping that Jorge Sosa got the win or Dave Roberts got a stolen base. No rational person behaves in this manner.
Christian Williams
If you really love games and pride yourself as being an early adopter, then no rational argument is going to deter you from buying (360) on day one, ... That said, there are only a few of the first round of 360 games that are noticeably different.
John Davison
Crisis alone is not enough. There must also be a basis, though it need be neither rational nor ultimately correct, for faith in the particular candidate chosen.
Thomas Kuhn
We really like the steady pace versus the bubble (mentality) we have seen in the past. Instead of irrational exuberance, we are seeing healthy, rational optimism.
Kate Mitchell
Man, the cutting edge of terrestrial life, has no rational alternative but to expand the environmental and resource base beyond earth.
Krafft A. Ehricke
People are not as rational as we would like them to be. I'm happy we got these results, because I believe this is evidence that economists should take into consideration when we write investing models for individuals.
Camelia Kuhnen
To wisdom belongs the intellectual apprehension of things eternal; to knowledge, the rational apprehension of things temporal.
Saint Augustine
It's all emotion. But there's nothing wrong with emotion. When we are in love, we are not rational; we are emotional. When we are on vacation, we are not rational; we are emotional.
Frank Luntz
The thing about staying is sometimes the emotional decision can be so compelling, it clouds rational decisions. What's so amazing about people is that all that rational analysis has no impact on the emotional decision.
Paul Winans
News regarded the elimination of C7 as a central part of the process. Many acts, which are otherwise inexplicable in rational business terms, were specifically designed to get them out of business.
Jonathan Sumption
Any rational seller would have to feel the amount they got off market was at or more than they could have got on the market, ... So if this seller was willing to sell the property not going through the market system, then must the seller feel the price met - if not exceeded - what they could have gotten on the market?
Anne Foley
It's not rational to tell Iran not to enrich uranium - it's our right.
Amir Mohebian
These kinds of decisions inevitably are based more on politics than rational planning, ... If [West Virginia] Sen. [Robert] Byrd could have his way, every department and agency of the federal government would end up in West Virginia. That's how the game is played of course, and certainly, Sen. Warner is no different.
Mark Rozell
Tony had a message to deliver to us and he did it in a very mature, rational way. He's a two-time champion. When he comes to us, we're going to listen to him.
Jim Hunter
Kinko's is under assault, and I think what Kinko's is doing is totally rational.
Howard Davidowitz
Therefore re-education is required to restore the perpetrators rational thinking.
Made Mangku Pastika
There was no rational reason why monkeys might prefer one of these options over the other because, according to the theory of expected value, they're identical.
Michael Platt
Within the LDP, there are now very few who speak out as loudly (for farmers) as in the past and the number of farm-related lawmakers with rational views has grown.
Kaoru Yosano
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
Allan Goldfein
If you have aphasia, going to the store is a nightmare. If you have to ask for something, if you have to make change, clerks look at you like you've got some mental problem, but you are perfectly rational. They're the same inside. That's what's so frustrating. They know what they want to say, but they just can't get it out.
Joan Peters
I don't want to accuse anybody of anything, but the whole process doesn't make rational sense and it stinks.
Robert Taylor
Instead, the disorder itself takes control and the chemical changes in the body affect the brain and distort thinking. It becomes almost impossible for sufferers to make rational decisions about food.
Steve Bloomfield
The meme for blind faith secures its own perpetuation by the simple unconscious expedient of discouraging rational inquiry.
Richard Dawkins
Microsoft's exit from this market should lead to more rational pricing and likely improved profitability for Intuit's TurboTax. In an attempt to gain market share, Microsoft dramatically cut unit price, a move Intuit was forced to match.
Scott Appleby
We educated voters about the facts that marijuana is less harmful to the user and society than alcohol. To prohibit adults from making the rational, safer choice to use marijuana is bad public policy.
Mason Tvert
The decision on the tariff increase must be transparent, managerially accountable and rational.
Industry Minister Fahmi Idris
The question I would ask is: Would you consider listing the species today? Most rational people say no.
Chuck Schwartz
It demonstrates the power of using a rational approach incorporating new science to solve a complex issue.
Evans Taracha
It's an unfortunate consequence of American history. Gambling is exactly like demon rum was 75 years ago when the temperance movement was agitating. Once you demonize something, it becomes difficult to look at it in any rational way.
Eugene Christiansen
Popular nationalism and sometimes the Chinese government's manipulation of the issue, as well as Japan's poor handling of it over the years, sometimes supersede their rational economic interests. It's a dangerous pattern if it gets out of hand. So far it hasn't.
Ellis Krauss
He was always very rational, very emotionally in control, I think he had a conservative point of view.
Elaine Tarr
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