Quotes About Rationality

Let's talk sense to the American people.

I use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few.

Perhaps many white North Americans fear an overtly political art because it might persuade us emotionally of what we think we are "rationally" against; it might get us on a level we have lost touch with; undermine the safety we have built for oneselves, remind us of what is better left forgotten.

We are all equal not because we partake in some peculiar nature or because we share in the same credo of unreasoned beliefs, but because we take it that no thinking being is incapable of seeing reason.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Probability theory is nothing more than common sense reduced to calculation. -1819

Leaders who allow themselves to be governed by reason will allow themselves to in turn govern their cities benevolently. The uneducated leader, on the other hand, is plagued by greed, paranoia, and a false sense of grandeur.

Kalau kemanusiaan tersinggung, semua orang berperasaan dan berpikiran waras ikut tersinggung, kecuali orang gila dan orang yang berjiwa kriminil, biar pun dia sarjana.

Paralogism is rarely a good strategy for the effective leadership.

Reasoning doesn't revamp consciousness

The reason of life is to live a life of reason.

Iz mojih ?u misli nastojati uvek sve neistine da odagnam, znaju?i da si ti istina ta koja je svetlost razuma u mom umu zapalila. Iz mog ?u srca nastojati uvek svako zlo da proteram i moju ljubav u cvatu sa?uvam, znaju?i da sedište je tvoje u najskrivenijem hramu mog srca. I u mojim ?u delima nastojati tebe da otkrijem, znaju?i da tvoja je sila ta koja snagu mi daje da delam.

The thing about reason is that there's a geometry to it. It travels in a straight line, so that slightly different beginnings can lead you to wildly divergent endpoints.

Romantics consider common sense vulgar.

Writers do not want to think they are less rational than other people, and at the mercy of compulsions, but in their hearts they know they are like those people who are taken for walks by their dogs, towed through hedges and ditches by an untrained sub-human energy.

I never got good at predicting what millions of people will suddenly decide is rational.

The more rational an institution is the less it suffers by making concessions to others.

Rationally, I knew these fears were ridiculous. There were no signs, unfortunately, and I would never blame anyone for another person's suicide. But if everyone felt that way, there wouldn't be this cruel stigma, would there?

I'm a creature of the eighteenth century at heart: The Enlightenment and the search for happiness suit me.

To sum up: it is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

Sunk costs? We pay too much attention to them.

Every rational creature has all nature for his dowry and estate. It is his, if he will. He may divest himself of it; he may creep into a corner, and abdicate his kingdom, as most men do, but he is entitled to the world by his constitution. In proportion to the energy of his thought and will, he takes up the world into himself.

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.

Every worldview has to bring together reason and faith.