Quotes About Rationality

I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.

The principle of Sturgeon's Razor states that the simplest answer to any problem is 90% crap.

It's the quality of our reasons for believing that make us intelligent and thoughtful individuals

What was most important and really new about the Age of Reason was the sublime confidence of the intellectuals and societal leaders in the power of man's reason

The truth is that the culture that surrounds us—and that persistently triggers new explosions of backlash outrage—is largely the product of business rationality. It is made by writers and actors, who answer to editors and directors and producers, who answer to senior vice presidents and chief executive officers, who answer to Wall Street bankers, who demand profits above all else.

The scientific spirit is of more value than its products, and irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

That end is an intuitive realization of a single great insight—that we and the world around are one, both part of a larger encompassing absolute. Our rational intellect merely obscures this truth, and consequently we must shut it off, if only for a moment. Rationality constrains our mind; intuition releases it.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

Science is nothing but trained and organized common sense.

The deepest sin against the human mind is to believe things without evidence.

Fix reason firmly in her seat, and call to her tribunal every fact, every opinion. Question with boldness even the existence of a God because, if there be one, he must more approve of the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

reason is merely the mouthpiece of emotion.

When feelings matter more than rationality or facts, education is a doomed enterprise. Emotion

The death of expertise is not just a rejection of existing knowledge. It is fundamentally a rejection of science and dispassionate rationality, which are the foundations of modern civilization.

What is different today, and especially worrisome when it comes to the creation of educated citizens, is how the protective, swaddling environment of the modern university infantilizes students and thus dissolves their ability to conduct a logical and informed argument. When feelings matter more than rationality or facts, education is a doomed enterprise.

about Voltaire)...he was generally unbedeviled by any foolish consistency.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason. I have never used any other, and I trust I never shall.

I offer nothing more than simple facts, plain arguments, and common sense.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is Reason.

It is only by the exercise of reason that man can discover God. Take away that reason, and he would be incapable of understanding anything; and, in this case, it would be just as consistent to read even the book called the Bible to a horse as to a man. How, then, is it that those people pretend to reject reason?

If those to whom power is delegated do well, they will be respected: if not, they will be despised; and with regard to those to whom no power is delegated, but who assume it, the rational world can know nothing of them.

Ä°nsan, Tanr?'y? ak?l yürütme yoluyla keÅŸfedebilir.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.