Quotes About Rationality

In our reasonings concerning fact, there are all imaginable degrees of assurance. A wise man therefore proportions his belief to the evidence.

Bleib' nüchtern und vergiss' nicht, skeptisch zu sein!

When men are most sure and arrogant they are commonly most mistaken, giving views to passion without that proper deliberation which alone can secure them from the grossest absurdities.

Does a man of sense run after every silly tale of hobgoblins or fairies, and canvass particularly the evidence? I never knew anyone, that examined and deliberated about nonsense who did not believe it before the end of his enquiries.

A wise man apportions his beliefs to the evidence.

A common view of knowledge, going back to Plato, is that knowledge is justified, true belief. To know something, you have to think it's true (that's belief), you have to be right about it (that's truth), and you have to have good reasons for believing it (that's justification).

wickedness does not promote rational thought. This is, in fact, a major message of the scriptures.

Thus, reason tells us that it is rational to accept what reason alone cannot demonstrate.

Hilda observed that science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking.

science always loses its way when guided by ideology or wishful thinking.

It's the first effect of not believing in God that you lose your common sense.

I don't know why it is that the religious never ascribe common sense to God.

Our rational minds can never understand what has happened, but our hearts.. if we can keep them open to God, will find their own intuitive way.

I believe in God, but I don't think you have to go crazy to prove it.

No reason can be given for the nature of God, because that nature is the ground of rationality.

I believe in God, but not in any rational or theological scope.

Madness comes from God, whereas sober sense is merely human.

My parents are both scientists, and I was raised without god.

Christianity believes that God has created an external world that is really there; and because He is a reasonable God, one can expect to be able to find the order of the universe by reason.

If thou really believe in one God, irrationality is subset of thou logic.

Anger is never without a reason, but seldom with a good one.

Good judgment, common sense, and reason all fly out the window when emotions kick down your door.

I think it's probably a good thing to be considered stable, but with a capacity for madness.

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.