Argument Quote by Eliezer Yudkowsky Download Open image “To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Clever Logic Rationality
Very clever people are often very clever at creating rationalisations for insane beliefs. — PZ Myers Copy Share Image
An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try. — Jen Knox Copy Share Image
To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning. — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally. — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not… — Ai Weiwei Copy Share Image
“But I really am Ravenclaw, you know, not Slytherin. I don't want to rule the universe. I just think it could be more sensibly… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“If you regard evidence as a constraint and seek to free yourself, you sell yourself into the chains of your whims. For you cannot… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“I am not sure how to explain it, except that - truth matters to us.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I see little hope for democracy as an effective form of government, but I admire the poetry of how it makes its victims complicit… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“He really really really shouldn't have done that. Amazing how much more obvious that became one second after it was too late.” — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
I'm wondering if there's a spell to make lightning flash in the background whenever I make an ominous resolution. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“There’s a technique we use in our local rationalist cluster called “Is That Your True Rejection?”, and it works like this: Before you stake… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
Lonely dissent doesn't feel like going to school dressed in black. It feels like going to school wearing a clown suit. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Knowing that Draco's hopeful face had probably been drilled into him by months of practice did not make it any less effective, Harry observed.… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The strength of a theory is not what it allows, but what it prohibits; if you can invent an equally persuasive explanation for any… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It is triple ultra forbidden to respond to criticism with violence. There are a very few injunctions in the human art of rationality that… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
The human species was not born into a market economy. Bees won't sell you honey if you offer them an electronic funds transfer. The… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
Don't get divorced after your first argument! I have a lot of friends that have one fight and that's it, they get divorced. I… — Kelly Ripa Copy Share Image
