Quote by Grant Allen

“Rationalization is foreplay with one's conscience.”

— Doug Cooper

“Few things are as destructive and limiting as a worldview that assumes people are mostly rational.”

— Scott Adams

“Baptize yourself with the flow of rational thinking and the world is bound to become rational.”

— Abhijit Naskar

“Rational is when an act is performed based on logical grounds.”

— Duop Chak Wuol

“[People] will do the rational thing, but only after exploring all other alternatives.”

— John Maynard Keynes

“We humans like to think we are creatures of reason. We aren't. The reality is that we make our decisions first and rationalize them…

— Scott Adams

“Humans think they are rational, and they think they understand their reality. But they are wrong on both counts.”

— Scott Adams

If you scare somebody enough, they stop being rational.

— Etgar Keret

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead

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

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“It's just that I take riddling seriously. I was taught that the ability to solve them indicates a sane and rational mind.”

— Stephen King

“The chief danger of adopting a credible pose of irrationality is that to succeed in the pretense you have to be very good. After…

— Carl Sagan