Quotes of: Ration Keyword

Rational discussion is useful only when there is a significant base of shared assumptions.

Noam Chomsky

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

William Butler Yeats

In the 1950s, as food rationing ended, I remember a plentiful supply of sweets for the first time.

Robert Powell

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

Albert Ellis

Israel gives the West Bank water twice a week! One way of promoting good would be not to ration water.

Zubin Mehta

Universities are the custodians not only of the many cultures of man, but of the rational process itself.

Edward Levi

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

Daniel Kahneman

It's time for the sensible center to rise up and push for a rational approach to our fiscal challenges.

Steven Rattner

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.

Zbigniew Brzezinski

The relationship between parents and children, but especially between mothers and daughters, is tremendously powerful, scarcely to be comprehended in any rational way.

Joyce Carol Oates

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

Brigitte Boisselier

The idea that there is a rational truth out there that is not embodied in a person's politics is something I can't understand or subscribe to.

Natalie Jeremijenko

My work explores the frontier between rationalism and superstition and the wavering boundary between the two.

David Almond

Walk into any church, and you will see people swimming in a sea of emotions (everything from shame and guilt to love and ecstasy). That may be the reason some people think that the more emotional they are, the more spiritual they are. But, as we will...

More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality

For example, the call for equal rights has perverted into “let’s all be the same.” Male and female biological differences are discounted, because “male” and “female” are considered “outdated social constructs,” and while that is par...

More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality

Growth seems to evolve from a narrow-minded, constricted worldview (selfish) to an ever-more-encompassing worldview (multiperspective caring). To put it simply, the more self-centered you are, the lower you tend to land on these scales, while the mor...

More Likely to Quote Star Wars than the Bible: Generation X and Our Frustrating Search for Rational Spirituality

[Obituary of atheist philosopher Richard Robinson] An Atheist's Values is one of the best short accounts of liberalism (a term Robinson accepted) and humanism (a term he ignored) produced during the present century, all the more powerful for its luci...

Nicolas Walter

Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.

The Elysium Commission

I was feeling rational and restless, which is horrible for watching movies

Arrowsmith

It was an irrational fear. But when had fear ever been rational?

Into the Still Blue

I was not a believer in instalove. So said the rational part of my brain.

Taking The Reins