R Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with R. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Rather, very, little, pretty - these are the leeches that infest the pond of prose, sucking the blood of words. The constant use of the adjective little (except to indicate size) is particularly debilitating; we should all try to do a little better, we should all be very watchful of this rule, for it is a rather important one, and we are pretty sure to violate it now and then.”
“Rating systems work perfectly for players who play only in round robin closed events. I think most of them are overrated. Organizers invite same people over and over because they have the same rating and their rating stays high.”
“Ratings agencies are highly conflicted, unimaginative dupes. They are blissfully unaware of adverse selection and moral hazard. Investors should never trust them.”
“Ratings agencies are the glue that ostensibly holds the entire financial industry together.”
“Ratings are king and the money keeps flowing, and partisanship is so strong today that people rely on a few sources absolutely instead of thinking critically. So even being a cheerleader for a gameshow-host president with no respect for the rule of law or America's reputation in the world may not be a career-ending move.”
“Ratings don't last. Good journalism does.”
“Ratings experts say the best way to get people to watch during sweeps is to leave the audience with a question that won't be answered until the next time the show is on. You know, like Who shot J.R.? I like to think I do this every night - the question is, Is this show still on?”
“Ratings for the XFL are so low that pretty soon they'll be able to address the viewers by name.”
“Ratings have changed, viewer habits have changed and the options for the audience have grown enormously, but I don't think how you tell a story is fundamentally different.”
“Ratings to me are a little like the Chinese Government. I don't fully understand what makes a rating go. I don't know what makes the American television audience respond to one person and not t another. There very seldom are great differences between many television personalities.”
“Ratings translate into corporations, corporations that need a profit statement this quarter that's larger than the last.”
“Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.”
“Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.”
Source: The Intellectual World of C. S. Lewis
“Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.”
“Rational assessments too often led to rational surrenders.”
Source: Eat & Run: My Unlikely Journey to Ultramarathon Greatness
“Rational behavior ... depends upon a ceaseless flow of data from the environment. It depends upon the power of the individual to predict, with at least a fair success, the outcome of his own actions. To do this, he must be able to predict how the environment will respond to his acts. Sanity, itself, thus hinges on man's ability to predict his immediate, personal future on the basis of information fed him by the environment.”
Source: future shock
“Rational behavior requires theory. Reactive behavior requires only reflex action.”
“Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.”
“Rational conduct on the basis of the idea of calling, was born... from the spirit of Christian asceticism.”
“Rational confidence [is] the just result of knowledge and experience.”
“Rational discourse is only one way of presenting and examining an issue and by no means the best. Our new intellectuals are not aware of its limitations and of the nature of the things outside.”
“Rational egoism is the only morality that is for human life; thus, it is the only morality that is actually moral. Those who choose to be rationally self-interested thereby make the most of their life - and they are morally good because of it.”
“Rational fear of COVID-19 may save your life.”
“Rational free spirits are the light brigade who go on ahead and reconnoiter the ground which the heavy brigade of the orthodox will eventually occupy.”
“Rational order in the technological world can be as fascinating as the fetishes of a Congo witch-doctor - scientific phenomena become significant images.”
Source: Eduardo Paolozzi
“Rational people have better things to do than grant unwarranted credibility to every half-assed delusion.”
“Rational people, anti-religionists, must end their timidity and come out of the closet and assert themselves. And those who consider themselves only moderately religious really need to look in the mirror and realize that the solace and comfort that religion brings you actually comes at a terrible price.”
“Rational, responsible planning, finding and weighing longterm solutions for big [and small] expected [and unexpected] issues, close [and far].
For the benefit of [all].”
“Rational Self was screaming, “This is crazy! Abort before she lets you down easy!” But Hopeful Tama wanted to go all in; wanted to trust what he was feeling and see the wooing through. Hopeful Tama won.”
Source: Missive
“Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are swayed by other people, we get indoctrinated and we get influenced by advertising.”
“Rational thinking is good, but irrational thinking creates wonders.”
“Rational thinking which is free from assumptions ends therefore in mysticism. To relate oneself in the spirit of reverence for life to the multiform manifestations of the will-to-live which together constitute the world is ethical mysticism. All profound world-view is mysticism, the essence of which is just this: that out of my unsophisticated and naïve existence in the world there comes, as a result of thought about self and the world, spiritual self-devotion to the mysterious infinite Will which is continuously manifested in the universe.”
“Rational thought is interpretation according to a scheme which we cannot escape.”
Source: The Portable Nietzsche
“Rational thoughts never drive people's creativity the way emotions do.”
“RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.”
Source: The Devil's Dictionary: The Devil World
“Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.”
“Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith, requires necessary illusions and emotionally potent oversimplifications, which are provided by the myth maker to keep the ordinary person on course.”
“Rationalism crashes in the tails.”
“Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.”
Source: The Accidental Time Machine
“Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.”
Source: Process and Reality
“Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be wrong and you may be right and, by an effort, we may get nearer the truth."”
“Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace the whole of reality in the realm of reason, as if the reason coincides with the very principle of things.”
“Rationalism is imperative in the pursuit of truth, whereas the pursuit of a harmonious global progress demands a human to be simply human first, not a scientist, a philosopher, a preacher, or a politician. Be a human, then everything else.”
Source: Lord is My Sheep: Gospel of Human
“Rationalism is the enemy of art, though necessary as a basis for architecture.”
“Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . . . And if rationalism is a deathtrip, then irrationalism might very well be a lifetrip . . . at least until it proves otherwise.”
“Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable.”
Source: Imperium: The Philosophy of History and Politics
“Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.”
Source: Against Method
“Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.”
Source: All Men Are Brothers
“Rationality and calm self-determination were one of the great illusions of the universe... in the end, we were all ruled by our passions.”
Source: Once Upon A Lie
“Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion.”