Quote by Bertrand Russell

“What we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.”

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“Look into the irrationality closely, with a determination not to respect it, and not to let it dominate you. Whenever it thrusts foolish thoughts…

— Bertrand Russell

“We hold many dubious beliefs, in other words, not because they satisfy some important psychological need, but because they seem to be the most…

— Thomas Gilovich

“The belief in a god is irrational, and once this leap of faith is made it only takes short steps to abandon the standards…

— Al Stefanelli

“reasonable people often have difficulty anticipating irrationality from unreasonable people.”

— Bobby Adair

“It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or…

— George H. Smith

... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to…

— Massimo Pigliucci

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

— Bertrand Russell

“The chief danger of adopting a credible pose of irrationality is that to succeed in the pretense you have to be very good. After…

— Carl Sagan

Most specifically, irrationality means that rational systems are unreasonable systems. By that I mean that they deny the basic humanity, the human reason, of…

— George Ritzer

“Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace…

— osman bakar

“entrenched disbelief is oddly immune to evidence.”

— Frans de Waal