Rational thought Quotes

“I've seen what rational thought leads to. Dumbest people I ever met were intellectuals.”

“You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water.”

“Feelings should never supersede rational thought... so, if you feel that you've got the answer, you should think some more.”

“Tea was the great arbiter of many things, and for Pastaddams, his morning cup meant the difference between expressing rational thought and succumbing to the ineptitude that occupied recesses of his dormant mind. Merely having the cup in his hand facilitated the flow of ideas, and upon tea, the great nourishment of the tailor’s life, rested all his claims to rational dependence.”

“I am more touched, still, that you are trying to understand - through rational thought - that which cannot be understood at all. The divine, as Boehme said, is unground, unfathomable, something outside the world as we experience it. But this is a difference of our minds, dearest one. I wish to arrive on wings, while you advance steadily on foot, magnifying glass in hand. I am a smattering wanderer, seeking God within the outer contours, searching for a new way of knowing. You stand upon the ground, and consider the evidence inch by inch. Your way is more rational and more methodical, but I cannot change my way.”

“That dress was designed to be a kill switch for rational thought.”

“Revenge and rational thought never sleep together.”

“Our exclusive dependence on rational thought and language has obscured our natural ability to sense the flow of energy.”

“The genuine values in America arose from rational thought and breaking with tradition, not from blind allegiance to dirt and cloth.”