Rationality Quotes

182 quotes by 146 authors

If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely… — Jonathan Carroll
Human beings act in a great variety of irrational ways, but all of them seem to be capable, if given a fair chance, of making… — Aldous Huxley
A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order. — Albert Einstein
I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be… — Jane Austen
Your trust in rationality makes you irrational. — Orson Scott Card
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
And that, I suppose, is what I'd been trying to tell my mother that day: that her faith in justice and rationality was misplaced, that… — Barack Obama
There must be only three supreme values which govern a person's life: Reason, Purpose, and Self-esteem. Reason, as his only tool of knowledge--Purpose, as his… — Ayn Rand
It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality — Amartya Sen
It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in… — Bertrand Russell
The true function of logic ... as applied to matters of experience ... is analytic rather than constructive; taken a priori, it shows the possibility… — Bertrand Russell
Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration. — Ayn Rand
If life teaches anything at all it teaches that there are so many happy endings that the man who believes that there is no God… — Stephen King
Newtonian physics runs into problems at the subatomic level. Down there--in the land of hadrons, quarks, and SchrÃ¶dinger's cat--things gent freaky. The cool rationality of… — Daniel H. Pink
It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality — Gilles Deleuze
You get your intuition back when you make space for it, when you stop the chattering of the rational mind. The rational mind doesn't nourish… — Anne Lamott
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery
In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting in a superficial… — John Elder Robison
Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and… — Geraldine Brooks
He is very fond of me, almost too fond. I could do with less caressing and more rationality. I should like to be less of… — Anne Bronte

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