Rationality Quotes · Page 10

First, study the present construction. Second, ask for all past experiences ...study and read everything you can on the subject.

— Thomas A. Edison

The functional language is a radically anti-historical language: operational rationality has little room and little use for historical reason.

— Herbert Marcuse

Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.

— A. R. Ammons

There's a beauty to forgiveness, especially forgiveness that goes beyond rationality. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great &…

— Anonymous

Rationality is not a prerequisite to liberty. There is a sapient right to be free, whatever conditions we find ourselves in. We…

— L Neil Smith

“You need one whole hell of a lot of rationality before it does anything but lead you into new and interesting mistakes.”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high…

— Albert Einstein

“I’ve suppressed my aspirations to forget all rationality and let the moment explain everything, for nothing to be said and everything understood.…

— Saim .A. Cheeda

“It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people don't care for unreality becoming…

— Richard Matheson

“When the experts’ scientific knowledge is legitimated in terms of being rational, logical, efficient, educated, progressive, modern, and enlightened, what analogies can…

— Martin Guevara Urbina

Man has a single basic choice: to think or not, and that is the gauge of his virtue. Moral perfection is an…

— Ayn Rand

“The idea that reason and rationality is somehow separate from and antithetical to ones ' heart' is one of the most absurd…

— R. Alan Woods

“Fisher just stood there lost in thought, without saying anything. There is always a rational explanation for everything in this world -…

— Cornell Woolrich

The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look…

— Anonymous

“To begin with rationality in opinion: I should define it merely as the habit of taking account of all relevant evidence in…

— Bertrand Russell

“When like-minded people argue, all they do is provide each other with new reasons supporting already held beliefs. Just like solitary reasoners,…

— Hugo Mercier & Dan Sperber

“When confronted by a ‘believer’ it is easy for me to contrast the views of the skeptic with those of the rationalist.…

— E. Haldeman-Julius

I understood, not with my intellect but with my whole being, that no theories of the rationality of existence or of progress…

— Leo Tolstoy

“The result is that many of the most influential, best-educated, and best-placed citizens have experienced a powerful overlearning with respect to rationality.…

— James G. March

“She was surprised because she was Emily, and she did not share Jonathan's frank assessment of coworkers as losers, whiners, bozos, sharks.…

— Allegra Goodman

“In fact quite generally, commercial advertising is fundamentally an effort to undermine markets. We should recognize that. If you’ve taken an economics…

— Noam Chomsky

“I am yet to find a happy computer, despite being the epitome of rationality. Likewise, I am yet to find a civilized…

— Abhijit Naskar

We feel a deep pleasure from realizing that we believe something in common with our friends, and different from most people. We…

— Robin Hanson

“One persistent attempt to find a thread in the history of mankind focuses on the notion of Reason. Human history, on this…

— Ernest Gellner

A rationalism of serving any living being with a consistent ethics and morality of an unquestionable nature in any sphere of activity…

— Anuj Somany

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which…

— Phillip E. Johnson

The most sensible person is the one who knows to put his pride in the pocket when he realizes he was wrong…

— Senora Roy

We no longer have the pact from 1997; it was radically amended in 2005 and the Commission is applying this Stability Pact…

— Jean-Claude Juncker

“The mind of the most rational among us may be compared to a stormy ocean of passionate convictions based on desire, upon…

— Bertrand Russell

You cannot measure rationality, you cannot determine whether a state is rational or not, by looking at outcomes - there's almost universal…

— John Mearsheimer

I like [Barak] Obama. I like him. So how far does rationality help to persuade anybody? You know, I'm not so sure.

— George Saunders

“It seems perverse to define intelligence as including rationality when no existing IQ test measures any such thing!”

— Keith E. Stanovich

“An unbiased appreciation of uncertainty is a cornerstone of rationality—but it is not what people and organizations want.”

— Daniel Kahneman

“It makes a lot of sense, which makes me suspect it is a call for revolution wrapped in the clothing of rationality.”

— Veronica Roth

I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.

— Joan Didion

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

— Charles Lindbergh

There is joy in rationality, happiness in clarity of mind. Freethought is thrilling and fulfilling - absolutely essential to mental health and…

— Dan Barker

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

— David Packard

“Just as the moon derives the light it reflects from the sun, so the rational human mind derives a created ability to…

— Ronald H. Nash

“Tribalism is an addiction that is driven by false beliefs that need to be reflected back to be perceived as true.”

— Stefan Molyneux