Quotes About Rationality

If you want to feel good, be rational.

And thanks to Christina McMullen, who has taught me that common sense and intelligence need not have any correlation whatsoever.

Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a cheeseburger.

See what I mean? You gotta be crazy. Ain't no time to be sane.

The learned ignore the evidence of their senses to preserve the coherence of the ideas of their imagination.

We balance probabilities and choose the most likely. It is the scientific use of the imagination.

A truly open mind means forcing our imaginations to conform to the evidence of reality, and not vice versa.

Common sense is usually lack of imagination, and imagination is usually lack of common sense.

Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.

No sane man will dance.

Perfect reason flees all extremity, and leads one to be wise with sobriety.

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

Force without reason falls of its own weight.

Not to be mad is another form of madness

The meek shall indeed inherit the earth. They have the power to act rationally instead of reacting emotionally.

Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.

Have you got something against faith?""Have you got something against reason?

There is another limitation in many arguments Christians use to prove the rationality of belief in God. The God who is "proved" is only a transcendent, impersonal God, maybe a Creator, but not necessarily personal. Only a God whose existence is important to human understanding or human flourishing is worth troubling about.

don't let the pride take over reason

there's nothing more important than making a faith reasonable

But "common sense is not faith," Oswald Chambers had written, "and faith is not common sense.

for some people, laziness could beat out common sense any day.

I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

Ethical politics requires more than rational demystification.