Rational Quotes

Lucas attended a conference on rational expectations at the University of Minnesota in the spring of 1973. The day after the conference, I received a call from Pittsburgh.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.

Architecture is not an inspirational business, it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things; that's all.

Like the 'little emperors' of one-child China, too many Boomers were taught early that the world was made (or saved) for their comfort and enjoyment. They behaved accordingly, with a self-indulgence that was wholly rational, given their situation.

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

In the span of my own lifetime I observed such wondrous progress in plant evolution that I look forward optimistically to a healthy, happy world as soon as its children are taught the principles of simple and rational living.

I think the Democratic Party has picked a lot of the wrong candidates, the kind that Middle America, or people who are more down the middle and more rational, can't side with. I think that's been the problem.

But it is strange how many rational beings believe the ultimate truths of the universe to be reducible to patterns on a blackboard.

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

For people who have no critical acumen, a state is a mythical entity, for those who think critically it is a rational fiction, created by man in order to facilitate human coexistence.

From 1918 on, trade unionists were to express from the platforms of their congresses the workers' desire for peace through a rational organization of the world.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

Indeed, I am sometimes inclined to doubt whether some men consider youth as rational and intelligent beings, with minds capable of expansion, and talents formed for usefulness.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

While the miser is merely a capitalist gone mad, the capitalist is a rational miser.

The remedy for speech that is false is speech that is true. This is the ordinary course in a free society. The response to the unreasoned is the rational; to the uninformed, the enlightened; to the straight-out lie, the simple truth.

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

My purpose is to make a movie to make you warm. To give you some heat. Now, this rational world has become a place where only what is cool is good. Do you cut the movie on the basis of the beat of modernity or the basis of the beat of your own heart?

In a completely rational society, the best of us would be teachers and the rest of us would have to settle for something else.

Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.

How can a rational being be ennobled by any thing that is not obtained by its own exertions?

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

A king is always a king - and a woman always a woman: his authority and her sex ever stand between them and rational converse.

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

'I realize they say we are 'wacko' and 'out there, but we are the most rational of all.

At the constitutional level where we work, 90 percent of any decision is emotional. The rational part of us supplies the reasons for supporting our predilections.

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

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.

I have often thought that if a rational Fascist dictatorship were to exist, then it would choose the American system.