Ideas Quote by Stephen King

Rationalism is an adventure in the clarification of thought.

— Alfred North Whitehead

Rationalism is an attitude of readiness to listen to contrary arguments and to learn from experience... of admitting that "I may be wrong and…

— Karl Popper

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

— Paul Feyerabend

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

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

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

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

“Rationalism is false not because it seeks to express reality in rational mode, so far as this possible, but because it seeks to embrace…

— osman bakar

The term "rational" and its variants (rationality, rationalism) are used in a lot of contexts in economic debate, both positively and negatively, but nearly…

— John Quiggin

I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind…

— Derek R. Audette

What is rational is actual and what is actual is rational. On this conviction the plain man like the philosopher takes his stand,and from…

— Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

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