Cardinal Richelieu Quotes

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

I am not an adolescent, nor a romantic. I analyze objectively.

Mostly, I try to take a rational approach to life.

Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.

Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defense.

I am not someone who is afraid; I am someone who reasons.

I don't make decisions with my heart, I use my brain to think things through.

Italians think with their heads.

I'm very rational. I tend to let my head rule my heart.

The world of reason is to be regarded as a great and immortal being, who ceaselessly works out what is necessary, and so makes himself lord also over what is accidental.

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

Never let your emotions overrule your head.

To disparage the dictate of reason is equivalent to contemning the command of God.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

I am a commonsense sort of a person, and I don't get carried away with emotion and fears.

We believe it is bad or dangerous to be carried away by our emotions. We admire the person who is cool, who acts without feeling.

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

I'm against sloppy, emotional thinking.

First, he must hold rational values, and to do this he must be a thinker.