Quotes About Rationality

Common sense (which, in truth, is very uncommon) is the best sense I know of: abide by it; it will counsel you best.

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

Science has nothing to do with any dogma. Science ceases to exist when there is a dogma.

Truth [comes only] from those ... who cultivate their reason.

My passion is for scientific truth. I don't much care about good and evil. ... I care about what's true.

Embrace truth as it is revealed to-day by human reason.

The truth of it is that women are far more logical than men.

The truth is that reason is the enemy of life.

When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path

Science repudiates philosophy. In other words, it has never cared to justify its truth or explain its meaning.

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

More often than not, in order to find truth, a wise man must suffer the ravings of the insane. There is no undiscovered truth to be found in the minds of the reasonable and rational.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Reality and truth are not products of rational or linear thinking. They are derived from absolute wisdom as it manifests itself spontaneously, coming from the light of the Spirit.

I bring reason to your ears, and, in language as plain as ABC, hold up truth to your eyes.

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.

Dogmatism is inversely proportional to evidence.

Our brain is so full of nonsense there is no room for common sense.

A philosopher goes where the truth leads and has no patience with mere emotion.

The essence of verification is multiple lines of reasoning that converge at a single point.

Being too reasonable is a defect

And as the world becomes more and more complex, and the commodities more varied, the feelings we want become more urgent, less rational, more unconscious.

We need to work hard to fend off our natural tendency to view what happened as having been inevitable. Our minds simply want to explain what happened and close the case, but the world followed but one path among many possible ones. If we do the Rain Dance and it rains, then to the human brain, it looks like the dance caused the rain. In the more rational part of our brain, we know it's not true. Yet we dance on.