Admitting Quote by Karl Popper

A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing to learn…

— Karl Popper

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Rationalism is the idea that we can ever understand anything about the state of being. It's a deathtrip. It always has been. . .…

— Stephen King

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

A rationalist, as I use the word, is a man who attempts to reach decisions by argument and perhaps, in certain cases, by compromise,…

— Anonymous

We're living in interesting times, where people seem to be able to say things which are contrary to what you would call rationalism.

— Jed Mercurio

Rationalism... is a secularized form of the belief in the power of the word of God.

— Paul Feyerabend

“Rationalization is what we do when we smooth over any insight that interferes with our good feelings. It's a way of making the unacceptable…

— Susan Forward

Rationalization is a cover-up, a process of providing one's emotions with a false identity, of giving them spurious explanations and justifications - in order…

— Ayn Rand

Rationalizing is the self-exculpation which occurs when we feel ourselves, or our group, accused of misapprehension or error.

— James Harvey Robinson

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

— Ayn Rand

Rationalism belongs to the cool observer. But because of the stupidity of the average person, they follow not reason, but faith. This naïve faith,…

— Reinhold Niebuhr