Bigs Quote by Ai Weiwei

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

— Oscar Wilde

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

— Anatole France

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

— Albert Ellis

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

— Karl Popper

Rationality is the recognition of the fact that nothing can alter the truth and nothing can take precedence over that act of perceiving it.

— Ayn Rand

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women or that men are more willing to surrender their irrational beliefs. Both sexes…

— Albert Ellis

“Rationalization is what we do when we smooth over any insight that interferes with our good feelings. It's a way of making the unacceptable…

— Susan Forward

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

— Jonathan Haidt

Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be wrong and…

— Karl Popper

“We humans like to think we are creatures of reason. We aren't. The reality is that we make our decisions first and rationalize them…

— Scott Adams

It is easier to rationalize than it is to be rational.

— Warren Buffett

Reason ... contradicts the established order of men and things on behalf of existing societal forces that reveal the irrational character of this order…

— Herbert Marcuse