Capable Quote by Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

— Anonymous

If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs largely consistent…

— Donald Davidson

It has been said that man is a rational animal. All my life I have been searching for evidence which could support this.

— Bertrand Russell

“Man is a rational animal. But that does not mean that he is a reasonable animal. It means only that he has reason, and…

— Frank Sheed

“The only thing rational about man, the rational animal, is his ability to rationalize his own present position.”

— Allen MacDiarmid

“Animals are irrational men”

— Safir Kassim Booudjelal

Man is many things, but he is not rational.

— Oscar Wilde

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

— Anatole France

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

— Elliot Aronson

“To talk one’s own nonsense is almost better than spouting someone else’s truth.In the first case, you’re a human being; but in the second,…

— Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I wonder who it was defined man as a rational animal. It was the most premature definition ever given. Man is many things, but…

— Oscar Wilde

Man is a rational animal. So at least we have been told. Throughout a long life I have searched diligently for evidence in favor…

— Bertrand Russell