Quotes About Rationality

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

In the end, rational policy is always good.

If individuals are rational, there is no need to protect them against their own choices.

Rational thought will always trump medieval dogma.

Understanding the psychology of changing norms starts from a simple insight: although we may wish to be perfectly rational and impartial, bias is an inescapable part of what it means to be human.

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress, more fully revealing himself as humans gain the capacity to better understand.

I'm not rational enough to be a good journalist.

Kim Jong-un is not a rational person.

Economists discount any factors that would not influence the thinking of a rational person.

You start with the right amount of rational and emotional experiences. You have to blend those in your product when you come out.

Human emotion isn't neatly ordered and rational and easily predictable.

No crime can ever be defended on rational grounds.

There are so many different kinds of motivation for investing or giving or parting with your money in whatever other way, and plain old financial return is obviously attractive. But people are not always rational and are not just looking for that.

Put simply, behavioural economics argues that human beings' decision-taking is guided by the evolutionary baggage which we bring with us to the present day. Evolution has made us rational to a point, but not perfectly so. It has given us emotions, for example, which programme us to override our rational brain and act more instinctively.

The Christian image of God is that of a rational being who believes in human progress.

Being able and willing to complain is what makes us rational and moral animals, capable of seeing and articulating the difference between how things are and how they should be.

The great advantage of being human is that we can employ rational thought and resolve to change our circumstances.

I don't think any extremism is rational.

Legal behavior is not incompatible with rational, self-interested behavior.

Very bad things follow when we kid ourselves that we're naturally rational, rather than the more humbling truth: naturally emotional.

I'm not anti-intellectual, but primarily, I try to feel things. Emotions aren't always rational; it's not possible to put them into words.

Of course I am partisan in my politics, but my partisanship is rational - which, in my book, is not necessarily oxymoronic.

We appreciate every rational and every true comment, and we take criticism very seriously.

I think that it's rational to fear your own death or to fear harm to your family.