Rationality Quotes

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I believe that intelligence and rationality will always be primary no matter what shape sentient creatures take. To not think that would be to doubt… — Peter F. Hamilton
Ideology trumps rationality. Most conservatives cannot abide the solution to global warming - strong government regulations and a government-led effort to accelerate clean-energy technologies in… — Joseph J. Romm
Skepticism's bad rap arises from the impression that, however necessary the activity, it can only be regarded as a negative removal of false claims. Not… — Stephen Jay Gould
If we compare a severely defective human infant with a nonhuman animal, a dog or a pig, for example, we will often find the nonhuman… — Peter Singer
"We hold these truths to be sacred and undeniable" in a draft of the Declaration of Independence changes it instead into an assertion of rationality.… — Benjamin Franklin
Anger may bring extra energy, but it eclipses the best part of our brain: its rationality. The energy of anger is almost always unreliable. — Dalai Lama
To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality. — Ayn Rand
Workers and their families may starve to death in the New World Order of economic rationality, but diamond necklaces are cheaper in elegant New York… — Noam Chomsky
Man has been called a rational being, but rationality is a matter of choice... Man has to be a man-by choice; he has to hold… — Ayn Rand
In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something. — Krzysztof Kieslowski
What should we think of someone who never admits error, never entertains doubt but adheres unflinchingly to the same ideas all his life, regardless of… — Diane Ravitch
If man has been kicked up out of that which is only impersonal by chance , then those things that make him man-hope of purpose… — Francis Schaeffer
The neural processes underlying that which we call creativity have nothing to do with rationality. That is to say, if we look at how the… — Rodolfo Llinas
Addressing the conclusions of The God Delusion point by point with the devastating insight of a molecular biologist turned theologian, Alister McGrath dismantles the argument… — Francis Collins
A man demonstrates his rationality, not by a commitment to fixed ideas, stereotyped procedures, or immutable concepts, but by the manner in which, and the… — Stephen Toulmin
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human… — Roy Blount, Jr.
The hope for the twentieth century rests on recognition that war and depression are man-made, and needless. They can be avoided in the future by… — Carroll Quigley
Buffettâ€™s genius was largely a genius of characterâ€”of patience, discipline, and rationality. — Roger Lowenstein
Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating. — Anne Lamott
If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart. — Lars von Trier

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