Fiction writer Quote by Jen Knox Download Open image “An intelligent person can rationalize anything, a wise person doesn't try.” — Jen Knox ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.1 out of 5 (4 ratings) Copy quoteShare Fiction writer Flash-fiction Intelligence Intelligent person Jen-knox Philosphy-of-life Psychology Wisdom
To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization. — Eliezer Yudkowsky 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
Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought. — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities. — Dan Ariely 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
An intelligent mind can overthink almost everything but a wise mind only thinks about what is needed to be thought. — Terry Mark Copy Share Image
Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of… — Roy Blount, Jr Copy Share Image
Being rational is a moral Imperative. You should never be stupider than you need to be. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
When the writing is good, a book becomes a mirror. The reader will see an uncanny familiarity and respond accordingly — Jen Knox Copy Share Image
“Only by examining our personal biases can we grow as artists; only by cultivating empathy can we grow as people.” — Jen Knox Copy Share Image
And then I met Jerry and he's such a creative fiction writer, and I don't know if there's ever been a team put together… — Tim LaHaye Copy Share Image
The training of a journalist, of working with words for thousands of hours, is extraordinarily useful for a fiction writer. — Tom Rachman Copy Share Image
I don't think I've had a very interesting life, and I feel that is a great liberation. That gives me great freedom as a… — John Irving Copy Share Image
I started out in graduate school to be a fiction writer. I thought I wanted to write short stories. I started writing poems at… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
I don't believe a poet has a better hold on truth or morality than a fiction writer has. And I don't think a fiction… — Colum McCann Copy Share Image
As a fiction writer, my favorite tools are my imagination and the peculiar opportunities offered by different points of view. — Stewart O'Nan Copy Share Image
I think part of what I like about being a fiction writer is that I can inhabit something that's beyond the limits of my… — Jenny Offill Copy Share Image
No one can teach writing, but classes may stimulate the urge to write. If you are born a writer, you will inevitably and helplessly… — Cynthia Ozick Copy Share Image
The goal, I suppose, any fiction writer has, no matter what your subject, is to hit the human heart and the tear ducts and… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
I was 12. Our ,teacher made us write an autobiography and I realised that I wasn't very interesting. I began to make things up,… — John Burnham Schwartz Copy Share Image
Everyone else thinks I'm a nonfiction writer. I think it's because my nonfiction is easier to find. But I write both in equal measure.… — Roxane Gay Copy Share Image
The deepest failures any fiction writer is likely to have are failures of not quite comprehending the truth of the story that he or… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
