Rational Behavior Quotes

Banks are run by executives, and executives protect themselves, and that does not always mean that banks are going to behave rationally.

Good and evil, reward and punishment, are the only motives to a rational creature

I wasn't acting on passion. I was simply acting.

We have a high moral responsibility to be rational

When money is free, the rational lender will keep on lending until there is no one else to lend to.

... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

In the 1940s, economics started getting highly mathematical. It was basically because economists weren't smart enough to write down models of real behavior that they started writing down models of highly rational behavior - and they kind of forgot about humans.

Satan knows that the nature of humankind is to act out of how we feel rather than what we know. One of our most important defenses against satanic influence will be learning how to behave out of what we know is truth rather than what we feel.

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you're crazy.

Now I must give one smirk and then we may be rational again

Where can I find a man governed by reason instead of habits and urges?

Whoever's calm and sensible is insane!

Man is a rational animal – so at least I have been told. Throughout a long life, I have looked diligently for evidence in favour of this statement, but so far I have not had the good fortune to come across it, though I have searched in many countries spread over three continents.

She went crazy with a calm face, justifiably so.

Neoclassical economics ... has uncovered important truths about the nature of money and markets because its fundamental model of rational self-interested human behavior is correct about 80% of the time.

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

It is the job of conscious rational thought to decide what you want, select the goals you wish to achieve-and concentrate upon these rather than upon what you do not want. To spend time and effort concentrating upon what you do not want is not rational.

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

Bones glanced behind me, with just the barest inclination of his head. I walked away from him, muttering, "Don't worry, you don't need to have Mencheres break out the invisible straitjacket again. I haven't gone crazy. I just didn't understand until now." He still looked like he was debating having Mencheres lay the power whammy on me, so I sat down by Kira in a very deliberate manner, folding my hands in my lap. There. Didn't I look calm and sane?

People always call it luck when you've acted more sensibly than they have.

A rational army would run away.

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

Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a really good idea. You must avoid the nonsense that is conventional in one's own time. It requires developing systems of thought that improve your batting average over time.

Most people are reasonable. That's why they only do reasonably well.

A man can believe a considerable deal of rubbish, and yet go about his daily work in a rational and cheerful manner.