208 Quotes About Rational

Brain balance is more important than bank balance.

Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions.

I do not pretend to be able to prove that there is no God. I equally cannot prove that Satan is a fiction. The Christian god may exist; so may the gods of Olympus, or of ancient Egypt, or of Babylon. But no one of these hypotheses is more probable than any other: they lie outside the region of even probable knowledge, and therefore there is no reason to consider any of them.

Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.

Reason is what helps us eliminate our prejudice, but it's love that makes us want to eliminate our prejudice.

To be a human it's necessary to carry out the requirements of civilization and the requirements of civilization are reason and compassion.

Rigidity is bondage that keeps you from realizing your true capacity.

Everything that's worth anything in the world has been achieved by the inquiring mind full of questions, not by those full of rituals and prejudice.

Reason begets honesty, and honesty, if given its head, begets confidence; so consequently, there is a sort of grand authority in the stances of those who know why they are standing.