Quotes About Rationality

A man speaking sense to himself is no madder than a man speaking nonsense not to himself.

GUIL: I think I have it. A man talking sense to himself is no madder then a man talking nonsense not to himself. ROS: Or just as mad. GUIL: Or just as mad. ROS: And he does both. GUIL: So there you are. ROS: Stark raving sane.

You stupid woman, if rationality were the criterion for things being allowed to exist, the world would be one gigantic field of soya beans!

The kind of clarity crazy people demand from the not-crazy.

Ztráta víry samozÃ…â"¢ejmÄ› zdaleka není tak atraktivní jako víra; i když odklon od ní m?že být racionální, ztrácíte tím víc, než získáváte.

We should by now have learned that politics remains national, even if economics does not: the history of the 20th century offers copious evidence that even in healthy democracies, bad political choices usually trump 'rational' economic calculations.

I didn't know what strange games were. To me, it was all part of living. A strange living. I had never known the truth so I had never cared for the truth, rationality or reason. I lived in a world of dreams, good and bad.

Unfortunately it's an incontrovertible fact that sound common sense flies out of the window as soon as love comes in through the door.

but then logic had never been my strong point.

En cuanto el amor entra en juego, el sentido común se esfuma.

Kes hoiab jala gaasipedaalil - säilitab külma närvi -, see võidab alati, kui eeldada, et vastane on terve mõistusega.

Mõnikord võib mõistusevastane käitumine osutuda hoopiski ratsionaalseks.

An excess of reason is itself a form of madness

Kita memasuki abad ideologi yang berakar pada keimanan, yang berseberangan dengan kebudayaan ilmiah yang dialogis dan rasional," kata Kauffmann. Di tengah dua arus yang menguat ini, mereka yang berpaham moderat didorong untuk berpihak ke salah satu kubu. "Moderate faith is being squeezed by both secularism and fundamentalism," tulisnya.

I'm not about to go out and buy a snake for a pet. I mean, I may have faced a few fears but I'm not insane.

The purpose of Alchemy is to liberate the whole individual which is hidden in the darkness, threatened by the rational and correct conduct of life, consequently experiencing themselves as hindered and on the wrong path.

he stressed that the main feature of science is economy of thought;

reasonable people have difficulty conceiving and understanding unreasonable behavior.

To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known. As

Scientists are not immune from talking nonsense.

When we seek a sure foundation on which to base decisions about our actions and thoughts, we find that a sure foundation does not exist. We do not even know whether we actually need such a foundation. We continue to make use of vague, uncertain ideas, precisely in those areas that most deeply concern us. What we call "irrational" is the code name for what we don't understand well about ourselves given the limits of our own intelligence.

To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful, and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one that he has always known.

To trust immediate intuitions rather than collective examination that is rational, careful and intelligent is not wisdom: it is the presumption of an old man who refuses to believe that the great world outside his village is any different from the one which he has always known.

People are not, of course, perfectly rational. No reader of Shakespeare, Dickens, or Joyce, or observer of daily life, is unaware of this point.