Behaviour Quote by Donald Davidson

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

— Anatole France

Rationalism doesn't require "belief," only observation. The real, measurable world doesn't care what you believe.

— Joe Haldeman

We can't assign beliefs to people who don't have a voice to express them. And we can't assume what someone thinks.

— Taylor Sheridan

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

— Elliot Aronson

Rather, although belief may be adequate for explaining the behavior of individual animals - an animal which believes that p will behave no differently…

— Hilary Kornblith

Man is so inconsistent a creature that it is impossible to reason from his beliefs to his conduct, or from one part of his…

— Thomas B. Macaulay

“We are fed ideas in small sound bites that are really just the conclusions of particular beliefs. We do not examine what underpins these…

— Stephen McAndrew

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

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“There are two objectionable types of believers: those who believe the far-fetched, and those who believe that 'belief' must be discarded and replaced by…

— Max Born

there is no independence and pertinacity of opinion like that of these seemingly soft, quiet creatures, whom it is so easy to silence, and…

— Harriet Beecher Stowe

“Degree of conformance to our other beliefs. One of our criteria for the assessment of explanations is coherence with our existing beliefs.”

— Michael E Emmering

Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.

— Ashley Montagu