Quotes About Rationality

Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behavior.

Cleverness is no guarantee of sensible behaviour.

Problem with trying to be rational all the time is the other fellow ain't always concerned with how logical your argument is.

Intelligence and feeling are two different things.

He calls it reason, using it To be more beast than ever beast was yet.

The day dawns smiling, rational and bright, We're tangled in a net of dreams at night. From green fields we come home contentedly, 11770 A bird croaks: meaning what?—catastrophe! Bedeviled by superstitions, we imagine The least thing is a sign, a portent, omen. And so we tremble, feeling lost, alone. The door creaks and we stiffen—there's no one.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Common sense is, of all kinds, the most uncommon. It implies good judgment, sound discretion, and true and practical wisdom applied to common life.

Since man is a rational creature, he can only attain freedom through the exercise of his reason, something more difficult in the primitive state than in civilization.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

Catch me coming to my senses, when it's so delightful to be mad. I'm too sharp for that.

The Machine is the friend of ideas and the enemy of superstition: the Machine is omnipotent, eternal; blessed is the Machine.

Passion is sanity.

I didn't believe in such things. I believed in facts, science and, every once in a while, human beings.

You couldn't even prove the White House staff sane beyond a reasonable doubt.

simple conveying of information to rational people.

In our pragmatic task-oriented culture we also learn that feelings are a source of distortion and should not influence judgments, and we are often cautioned not to act impulsively on our feelings. But, paradoxically, we may end up acting most on our feelings when we are least aware of them, all the while deluding ourselves that we are carefully acting only on rational assessments. We are often surprisingly oblivious to the influences that our feelings have on our judgments.

Guilt was never a rational thing; it distorts all the faculties of the human mind, it perverts them, it leaves a man no longer in the free use of his reason, it puts him into confusion

In the country of the mad, the sane man is crazy.

Science] presupposes as data principles that are themselves thoroughly lacking in actual rationality. In so far as the intuitive environing world, purely subjective as it is, is forgotten in the scientific thematic, the working subject is also forgotten, and the scientist is not studied.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense

The whole of science is merely a refinement of everyday thinking.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.