Quotes About Rationality

All reasoning is basically circular. Logic is a device we use to make the circles as large as possible.

Reasoning is the mental tool that use to think with

Today Plato is nearly forgotten. His beliefs include the notion that people who govern should be intelligent, rational, self-controlled, and in love with wisdom, an idea that has long been discredited.

Occam's Razor. My father had often repeated that one to me. Occam's Razor states the following: "Other things being equal, a simpler explanation is better than a more complex one." Put more succinctly, the simplest answer was usually the best one. So

if you are deluded and narcissistic enough to believe you should obey your gut rather than looking coldly at the facts

Occam's razor. It states - that the simplest explanation is usually the right one.

It is very difficult to logically explain the illogical.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

The wrong way always seems the more reasonable.

Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors.

I'm trained in science, believe in logic, and like to think there's an explanation for everything. And I'm truly not really at ease with other people.

Anger cancels good judgment.

Sometimes, convenience has the appearance of logic.

The intellectual love of a thing consists in understanding its perfections.

Science when well-digested is nothing but good sense and reason.

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The Intellect engages us in the pursuit of Truth. The Passions impel us to Action.

The truth of the Christian faith surpasses the capacity of reason.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

As far as I remember, even younger than eight, I have always been guided by reason. Not cold reason, but that which leads to the truth, to the real, and to sane Justice.

It is an insult to our citizens to question whether they are rational beings or not, and blasphemy against religion to suppose it cannot stand the test of truth and reason.

Truth does not demand belief. Scientists do not join hands every Sunday, singing, 'Yes, gravity is real! I will have faith!'