rational

My best friend is rational or reasonable because she always uses facts and logic to think about things. She is the most rational or balanced thinker I know because she thoroughly considers problems before finding a useful answer. She never lets emotion get in the way of her rational or fact-based thinking, even in stressful moments. Plus, she is a really intelligent person, which helps with her rational or carefully considered decisions!

Quiz: Try again! What is someone like who is acting in a rational way?

• They are relaxing and avoiding doing tasks that need to get done.
• They are being reasonable and making good decisions.
• They are angry and yelling at everyone to get things done quickly.

• Rational hope accepts that the situation is genuinely dark, but then it still looks around for signposts leading up and out. — The New York Times
• "The idea is to give the child experiences that will lead the child to develop rational thinking," Briggs told the CBC in 2011. In a nutshell, the parent would act out what happened when the child misbehaved, including the real-life consequences of that behavior. — NPR
• It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this. — Bertrand Russell, British mathematician, philosopher, and public intellectual