“Elinor agreed with it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.”
Jane Austen
“Ther's No greater Compliment Than The Hidden Compliment Of An Adversary.”
Donald Lynn Frost
“You see things; and you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say, 'Why not?'”
George Bernard Shaw
“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
“I think sometimes it would be good to tear my heart from my chest and bury it in my yard and then say to my BRAIN you have no choice you must take over and think for yourself!”
Anjie Henley
“Indeed, so far from being humorous, the male American is the most abnormally serious creature who ever existed.... It is only fair to admit that he can exaggerate, but even his exaggeration has a rational basis. It is not founded on wit or fancy; it does not spring from any poetic imagination....”
Oscar Wilde
“Whereas the degrees of rationality vary and some minds are distinguished over others, these clerks, if not convinced of what the Pasha has given them, must turn to their associates with the problem, and if all see an excess or shortcoming in the matter, then they should turn to the Pasha and present the requisite information.”
Muhammad Ali
