Quotes About Rationality

I never map things out in advance. It would be better if I did and more economical in terms of time, but I've found that if you work out a plot line from beginning to end, at the beginning it becomes very rational.

I've learned over the years that 'rational discussion' accomplishes almost nothing in politics, particularly with people better educated than average.

Everyone who's rational should have an interest in science. The future of our planet depends on our understanding of science... It's something I value immensely.

We're living in interesting times, where people seem to be able to say things which are contrary to what you would call rationalism.

As humans, we are not so rationalist as we think we are. I think our biggest quality is indeed that we are human, truly human: if our biggest quality would be rationality, we would lose our soul.

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.

We need to get some rationality on the Second Amendment. This is crazy what we allow ourselves.

I think that we must find some way to get more common sense, more rationality, in our decisions and less emotion.

In believing too much in rationality, our contemporaries have lost something.

The second advantage claimed for naturalism is that it is equivalent to rationality, because it assumes a model of reality in which all events are in principle accessible to scientific investigation.

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

The truth is that our freedoms are being subtly eroded in an era where emotion and sentiment are prized above reason and rationality.

I don't know if you realize this, but anger is anger. It has no mind. It has no rationality. It's mad, and it just wants to destroy.

You cannot 'rationalize' what is not rational to begin with - as if lying were called 'truthization.' There is no way to obtain more truth for a proposition by bribery, flattery, or the most passionate argument - you can make more people believe the proposition, but you cannot make it more true.

My mother cared more about how you reasoned than about the conclusions you reached.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

I consider myself a realist.

I'm very much a realist.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

The Austrian School of economics is an alternative to the mainstream approach. It places economics on a sound, human basis. It avoids the traps that plague most of modern economics: the assumption of selfishness as the basic human motivation, a narrow definition of rational behavior, and the overuse of unrealistic models.

The would-be sorcerer alone has faith in the efficacy of pure knowledge; rational people know that things act of themselves or not at all.

When the instincts to virtue signal are combined with curiosity about science, open-mindedness about values and viewpoints, rationality about priorities and policies, and strategic savvy about ways and means, then wonderful things can happen.

What is reasonable is real; that which is real is reasonable.

The real is the rational, and the rational is the real.