Quotes About Rationality

A man is rational in proportion as his intelligence informs and controls his desires.

We have almost reached the point where praise of rationality is held to mark a man as an old fogey regrettably surviving from a bygone age.

The first effect of emancipation from the Church was not to make men think rationally, but to open their minds to every sort of antique nonsense

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

The man of regular life and rational mind never despairs.

Men are handicapped when it comes to arguing, 'cause we have a need to make sense.

[We should] suspend our belief of every tale that deviates from the laws of nature and the character of man.

When a wise man chooses a sane basis for his arguments, it is no great task to speak well.

When an argument is over, how many weighty reasons does a man recollect which his heat and violence made him utterly forget?

Men never desire anything very eagerly which they desire only by the dictates of reason.

Most men of education are more superstitious than they admit - nay, than they think.

The man who would emancipate art from discipline and reason is trying to elude rationality, not merely in art, but in all existence.

When learned men begin to use their reason, then I generally discover that they haven't got any.

Think with the big head, man! Think with the big head!

The wise man never loses his temper.

What a man really says when he says that someone else can be persuaded by force, is that he himself is incapable of more rational means of communication.

It is among men of genius and science that atheism alone is found.

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

These are not free men in any rational and exact sense of the word.

I am not a nervous man in a general way, and very little troubled with superstitions, of which I have lived to see the folly.

Sometimes fear is wholesome and rational; it is well to swing fear as a mighty battle-axe over men's heads when no other motive will move them.

What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

A wise man has told us that "men are once for all so made that they prefer a rational world to believe in and live in."

Dawn: When men of reason go to bed.