Rationality Quotes
What a paradox it is, the sane causes more problems than the insane! It is! The real problems of the world do not come from the insane but, the sane!
Only education, self-respect and rational qualities will uplift the down-trodden.
Poor Hayduke: won all his arguments but lost his immortal soul.
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.
It takes a huge amount of culture to normalize "crazy", and of course that's its main focus
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.
I have tried to be very rational, although I know love and hate are not rational and explained feelings.
To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.
Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions.
The Bible is clear: Truth exists. It can be known. And when we ground our beliefs in it, we are rational.
Historical definition of a country's borders... "...here's where my murder geography ends and your murder geography begins, at least until I get more murderers to expand my murder-fest.
Spiritual": religion without any rules. All the comfort of fictitious friends with none of their demands.
Emotion and instinct were the basis of all our decisions, our actions, everything we valued, the way we saw the world. Reason and rationality were a thin coat of paint on a ragged surface.
Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.
To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational.
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.
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.
We human beings are created and yet we are more rational than the creator himself who spawned us.
The reader who thinks that rationality does not require a definition should ponder the following: I'll give you a million dollars to do something irrational.
Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility.
Be careful... any time you find yourself defining the "winner" as someone other than the agent who is currently smiling from on top of a giant heap of utility
Then are there no rules at all, Lord?” Moneo's voice conveyed a faint hint of hysteria.Leto smiled to ease the man's tensions. “Perhaps one. Short–term decisions tend to fail in the long–term.
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.
Logic stays true, wherever you may go, So logic never tells you where you live.
The less evidence we have for what we believe is certain, the more violently we defend beliefs against those who don't agree.
What the efficient market hypothesis doesn't account for is that people are not always rational. Just ask any divorce lawyer.
The most damaging cognitive bias is overconfidence (illusory superiority), making leaders use their “gut” when they should be more rational.
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.
