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Rational Quotes and Sayings
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The intuitive mind is a sacred gift
and the rational mind is a faithful servant.
We have created a society that honors the servant
and has forgotten the gift.
- Albert Einstein

Related topics: Life Human-Nature Psychology Intention Intuition Heart

A little simplification would be
the first step toward rational living.
- Eleanor Roosevelt

I am an Epicurean.
I consider the genuine (not the imputed) doctrines of Epicurus
as containing everything rational in moral philosophy
which Greek and Roman leave to us.
- Thomas Jefferson

The will to believe chases out the rational mind,
whenever and wherever the two come into conflict.
- Philip K. Dick

Rationally Quotes and Sayings

BUILD UP YOUR CIRCLE....
A mind that perceives
What can rationally be.
A spirit that sees
Innovative possibility.
A heart that is open to
Both beginnings and ends.
A firm hand that fits readily
To the reach of a friend.
- Mary Anne Radmacher

Rations Quotes and Sayings

As she passed among the hungry and the dejected,
delivering the rations and water,
she chanted in a low whisper,
"the spark of the mind - the sparkle of the soul" ...
"the spark of the mind - the sparkle of the soul" ...
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

Passed Quotes and Sayings

A man who has not passed through the inferno of his passions
has never overcome them.
- Carl Jung

Completion:
It is time for the project to be over.
You submitted the proposal, you painted your house,
you passed-in the term paper.
Whatever praise or criticism you received,
it is now time to move on to your next project.
- Jonathan Lockwood Huie

In rivers, the water that you touch
is the last of what has passed
and the first of that which comes;
so with present time.
- Leonardo da Vinci

The IQ and the life expectancy of the average American
recently passed each other in opposite directions.
- George Carlin

Let the word go forth from this time and place,
to friend and foe alike,
that the torch has been passed
to a new generation of Americans -
born in this century, tempered by war,
disciplined by a hard and bitter peace.
- John F. Kennedy

Jesus said: "A man was going down from Jerusalem to Jericho,
when he fell into the hands of robbers.
They stripped him of his clothes, beat him
and went away, leaving him half dead.
A priest happened to be going down the same road,
and when he saw the man, he passed by on the other side.
So too, a Levite [religious leader],
when he came to the place and saw him,
passed by on the other side.
But a Samaritan [Samaritans and Jews generally disliked
and were suspicious of each other] came where the man was;
and when he saw him, he took pity on him.
He went to him and bandaged his wounds ... and ...
took him to an inn and took care of him. ...
Jesus [said] "Go and do likewise."
- Luke 10:25-37 (The Parable of the Good Samaritan)

Man Quotes and Sayings

Why does a woman work ten years to change a man's habits
and then complain that he's not the man she married?
- Barbra Streisand

A man who dares to waste one hour of time
has not discovered the value of life.
- Charles Darwin

A dog is not considered a good dog because he is a good barker.
A man is not considered a good man because he is a good talker.
- The Buddha

Neither a man nor a crowd nor a nation
can be trusted to act humanely
or to think sanely under the influence of a great fear.
- Bertrand Russell

He is a man of courage who does not run away,
but remains at his post and fights against the enemy.
- Socrates

Man's mind, once stretched by a new idea,
never regains its original dimensions.
- Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.
- Carl Jung

I don't like that man.
I must get to know him better.
- Abraham Lincoln

Infinite striving to be the best is man's duty;
it is its own reward.
Everything else is in God's hands.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Happy is the hearing man; unhappy the speaking man.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Our problems are man-made, therefore they may be solved by man.
And man can be as big as he wants.
No problem of human destiny is beyond human beings.
- John F. Kennedy

Once made equal to man, woman becomes his superior.
- Socrates

One machine can do the work of fifty ordinary men.
No machine can do the work of one extraordinary man.
- Elbert Hubbard

Man is least himself when he talks in his own person.
Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth.
- Oscar Wilde

No matter how dull, or how mean, or how wise a man is,
he feels that happiness is his indisputable right.
- Helen Keller

It doesn't matter how long my hair is
or what color my skin is
or whether I'm a woman or a man.
- John Lennon

Adversity introduces a man to himself.
- Anonymous

The greatest virtue of man is perhaps curiosity.
- Anatole France

The man who is dissatisfied with himself, what can he do?
- Henry David Thoreau

Man prefers to believe what he prefers to be true.
- Francis Bacon

A man must be both stupid and uncharitable
who believes there is no virtue or truth but on his own side.
- Joseph Addison

The man of genius inspires us with
a boundless confidence in our own powers.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Experience is not what happens to a man.
It is what a man does with what happens to him.
- Aldous Huxley

What is happiness except the simple harmony
between a man and the life he leads?
- Albert Camus

Man should forget his anger before he lies down to sleep.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

The man who can't dance thinks the band is no good.
- Polish Proverb

Of course I am afraid. What sane man is not?
- Luciano Pavarotti

A man cannot be comfortable without his own approval.
- Mark Twain

Each man is afraid of his neighbor's disapproval -
a thing which, to the general run of the human race,
is more dreaded than wolves and death.
- Mark Twain

A man who doesn't trust himself
can never really trust anyone else.
- Cardinal De Retz

No man is a failure who enjoys life.
- William Feather

Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Habit is habit,
and not to be flung out of the window by any man,
but coaxed down-stairs a step at a time.
- Mark Twain

All religions must be tolerated...
for every man must get to heaven in his own way.
- Epictetus

The man form is higher than the angel form;
of all forms it is the highest.
Man is the highest being in creation,
because he aspires to freedom.
- Paramahansa Yogananda

Every man has his own courage,
and is betrayed because he seeks in himself
the courage of other persons.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

If a man is proud of his wealth,
he should not be praised until it is known how he employs it.
- Socrates

Hardly a man in the world has an opinion
upon morals, political, or religion
which he got otherwise than
through his associations and sympathies.
- Mark Twain

Two things a man should never be angry at:
what he can help,
and what he cannot help.
- Thomas Fuller

The man with insight enough to admit his limitations
comes nearest to perfection.
- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Interdependence is and ought to be
as much the ideal of man as self-sufficiency.
Man is a social being.
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

Freedom is never dear at any price.
It is the breath of life.
What would a man not pay for living?
- Mohandas (Mahatma) Gandhi

A man too busy to take care of his health is like
a mechanic too busy to take care of his tools.
- Spanish Proverb

Revenge... is like a rolling stone,
which, when a man hath forced up a hill,
will return upon him with a greater violence,
and break those bones whose sinews gave it motion.
- Albert Schweitzer

A great secret of success is to go through life
as a man who never gets used up.
- Albert Schweitzer

Man tends to treat all of his opinions as principles.
- Herbert Sebastian Agar

What is the appropriate behavior for a man or a woman
in the midst of this world,
where each person is clinging to his piece of debris?
What's the proper salutation between people
as they pass each other in this flood?
- The Buddha

There is no limit to what a man can do
or where he can go,
if he doesn't mind who gets the credit.
- Robert Woodruff

Don't marry a man to reform him -
that's what reform schools are for.
- Mae West

A man is a fool if he drinks before he reaches the age of 50,
and a fool if he doesn't afterward.
- Frank Lloyd Wright

Whatever your life's work is, do it well.
A man should do his job so well that the living,
the dead, and the unborn could do it no better.
- Martin Luther King, Jr.

I am a man of fixed and unbending principles,
the first of which is to be flexible at all times.
- Everett Dirksen

Afraid? Me? A man who's licked
his weight in wild caterpillars?
Afraid? You bet I'm afraid!
- Groucho Marx

If the tongue had not been framed for articulation,
man would still be a beast in the forest.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson

Do not marry a man to reform him.
That is what reform schools are for.
- Mae West

Books serve to show a man
that those original thoughts of his
aren't very new at all.
- Abraham Lincoln

Men always want to be a woman's first love -
women like to be a man's last romance.
- Oscar Wilde

Show me a sane man, and I will cure him for you.
- Carl Jung

I care not much for a man's religion
whose dog and cat are not the better for it.
- Abraham Lincoln

He's the kind of man a woman would have to marry to get rid of.
- Mae West

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      - Jonathan Lockwood Huie