Rationality Quotes
Rationality Quote of the day
Elinor agreed to it all, for she did not think he deserved the compliment of rational opposition.
When men reject reason, they have no means left for dealing with one another — except brute, physical force.
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.
When a man tells you he knows the exact truth about anything, you are safe in inferring he is an inexact man.
Rationality attracts conscientious humans, whereas mysticism attracts fools.
A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.
You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water.
Like many another materialist, that is, he lied cleverly on the basis of insufficient knowledge, because the knowledge supplied seemed to his own particular intelligence inadmissible.("The Wendigo")
The often-used phrase “pay attention” is apt: you dispose of a limited budget of attention that you can allocate to activities, and if you try to you try to go beyond your budget, you will fail.
Logic stays true, wherever you may go, So logic never tells you where you live.
The more rational we are, the more emotional we can be.
When you go with first principles, a giant light goes off in what you think is a city and turns out to be an insane asylum.
If we were rational enough to judge what we are fed based on what we are fed, those in the business of selling us hope (i.e., public speakers, presidents, priests, etc.) wouldn't wear suits.
Never trust books on the question of whether or not to trust your rational thinking. Trust your rational thinking on the question of whether or not to trust the books.
What the efficient market hypothesis doesn't account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer.
Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.
With a philosophy education, one can infuriate his peers, intimidate his date, think of obscure, unreliable ways to make money, and never regret a thing.
Spiritual": religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.
I’ve suppressed my aspirations to forget all rationality and let the moment explain everything, for nothing to be said and everything understood. If only I knew how to let these feelings out.
Writing my own novels in the '90s...I never imagined that in ten years, science and rationality would require explanation and defense in a world rocked and ruled by religious fervor.
Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.
You may substitute knowledge for superstition without satisfying the needs that drive people into superstition's arms.
Of course, I rationalize the fear. I realize it’s not real, that my house isn’t burning down, that the deer aren’t going to kill me.
The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.
To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.
Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.
We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.
Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.
It is easy for us to criticize the prejudices of our grandfathers, from which our fathers freed themselves. It is more difficult to search for prejudices among the beliefs and values we hold.
The Bible is clear: Truth exists. It can be known. And when we ground our beliefs in it, we are rational.
It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus
Once your fairytale gets shattered multiple times, life will finally paint reality in its place.
And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it is not in our power to determine the most true opinions we ought to follow the most probable.
It seems that life, in order to maintain itself, must revolt every so often against man's ceaseless attempts to master its irrational forces with his mind.
A bitter thing cannot be made sweet. The taste of anything can be changed. But poison cannot be changed into nectar.
A man who does not question his own judgment, society, and who flourishes between deceit and bewilderment, fails his moral responsibility as a rational being.
Truth has nothing to do with the conclusion, and everything to do with the methodology.
As understanding deepens, the further removed it becomes from knowledge.
We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.
