Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic. — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.” — Cesar Nascimento Copy Share Image
To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet. — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
“Don't believe what you're told unless your mind Confirms its truth: palm trunks, lofty as clouds, Stay wood.” — Abu al-Ala al-Ma'arri Copy Share Image
“To evade insanity and depression, we unconsciously limit the number of people toward whom we are sincerely sympathetic.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid… — Geraldine Brooks Copy Share Image
Selfishness is a bad habit. Thats why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others. — Benson Bruno Copy Share Image
“The joy from eating does not come from the exclusivity of the food, but instead from the sensitivity that we eat it… — Nino Gruettke Copy Share Image
I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would… — Peter F. Hamilton Copy Share Image
A rational mind does not work under compulsion; it does not subordinate its grasp of reality to anyone's orders, directives, or controls;… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Before you talk - Listen It may change what you say. Before you react - Think It may change how you react.… — Unkown Copy Share Image
Science is wonderful at explaining what science is wonderful at explaining, but beyond that it tends to look for its car keys… — Jonah Goldberg Copy Share Image
A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in… — Stephen Toulmin Copy Share Image
The magical thinking encouraged by any belief in the supernatural, combined with the vilification of rationality and skepticism, is more conducive to… — Wendy Kaminer Copy Share Image
“You stupid woman, if rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of… — Tom Stoppard Copy Share Image
Nothing is more dangerous to reason than the flights of the imagination and nothing has been the occasion of more mistakes among… — David Hume Copy Share Image
What I affirm is the intuition that where God's presence is no longer a tenable supposition and where His absence is no… — George Steiner Copy Share Image
The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality.… — Herbert Marcuse Copy Share Image
It was the ghost of rationality itself ... This is the ghost of normal everyday assumptions which declares that the ultimate purpose… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
“I do not declare that I have no intention of marrying on any general principle. If I were to see the right… — Jude Morgan Copy Share Image
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in… — Carroll Quigley Copy Share Image
I seem to be thinking rationally again in the style that is characteristic of scientists. However, this is not entirely a matter… — John Forbes Nash, Jr Copy Share Image
I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world.… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
“The notion of literature as only one of several avenues to a single type of propositional knowledge is, of course, hardly the… — Peter Swirski Copy Share Image
“What can we say for and about this behavioral version, this bounded rationality version, of human thinking and problem solving? The first… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
“And so come the cults, claiming to meet the needs that science has thus far failed to meet--and offering the prospective inductee… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
“We live in what might be called a nearly empty world-one in which there are millions of variables that in principle could… — Herbert Simon Copy Share Image
“If we care about knowledge, freedom, and peace, then we need to stake a strong claim: anyone can believe anything, but liberal… — Jonathan Rauch Copy Share Image
“He looked sharply towards the pollarded trees. 'Yes, just there,' he said. 'I saw it plainly, and equally plainly I saw it… — E.F. Benson Copy Share Image
The rationale for accepting or rejecting any theory is thus fundamentally based on the idea of problem-solving progress. If one research tradition… — Larry Laudan Copy Share Image
