Rationality Quotes

“Heartless’ is a label that is all too often wrongly given to someone who is rational by someone who is emotional.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“For me, I am what I am,
For you, I am what you think of me.
I can just assure, if you think rationally
I can become what I am, for you too..!”
― Mahendar Singh Jakhar

“The mark of an educated person was a rational mind…To believe in prophecy or the intervention of the divine was no more than sloppy thinking. - Apollodorus”
― Jo Graham, Hand of Isis

“I thought back to the counselling sessions, how we'd talked about thinking things through rationally, recognizing unhelpful patterns of behaviour and being brave enough to try doing things differently.”
― Gail Honeyman, Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine

“Most people never cease to exercise their right to disbelieve something that is obvious, or to believe something that is ridiculous.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“But in acknowledging play you acknowledge mind, for whatever else play is, it is not matter. Even in the animal world it bursts the bounds of the physically existent. From the point of view of a world wholly determined by the operation of blind forces, play would be altogether superfluous. Play only becomes possible, thinkable and understandable when an influx of mind breaks down the absolute determinism of the cosmos. The very existence of play continually confirms the supra-logical nature of the human situation. Animals play, so they must be more than merely mechanical things. We play and know that we play, so we must be more than merely rational beings, for play is irrational.”
― Johan Huizinga, Homo Ludens: A Study of the Play Element in Culture

“It has always been the regular state of things. There is no clarity, no relief. At he end of all rationality, there is simply the need to decide and the faith to live through, to endure.”
― Ken Liu, The Paper Menagerie and Other Stories

“The emotions, I have observed, are but slightly influenced by arithmetical considerations: the mother, when her sweet lisping little ones have all been taken from her one after another, and she is hanging over her last dead babe, finds small consolation in the fact that the tiny dimpled corpse is but one of a necessary average, and that a thousand other babes brought into the world at the same time are doing well, and are likely to live; and if you stood beside that mother—if you knew her pang and shared it—it is probable you would be equally unable to see a ground of complacency in statistics.

Doubtless a complacency resting on that basis is highly rational; but emotion, I fear, is obstinately irrational: it insists on caring for individuals; it absolutely refuses to adopt the quantitative view of human anguish, and to admit that thirteen happy lives are a set-off against twelve miserable lives, which leaves a clear balance on the side of satisfaction.”
― George Eliot, Scenes of Clerical Life

“Plurality is never to be posited without necessity.”
― William of Ockham, Quaestiones et decisiones in quattuor libros Sententiarum Petri Lombardi

“It is not truth that is validated by a proof, but one’s understanding of it.”
― Raheel Farooq, Why I Am a Muslim: And a Christian and a Jew

“We humans have no way to self-generate truth.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“All reasoning is based on either divine revelation or made-up stuff.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“When it comes to the Big Questions in Life, the preponderance of evidence should be our best advisor to inform our Beliefs.

The companion enterprise are the methods by which one interprets the evidence which demand unwavering intellectual honesty.”
― Brian Goedken

“When it comes to the Big Questions in Life, the preponderance of evidence is the best advisor to inform our beliefs.

The companion enterprise are the methods by which one interprets the evidence which demand unwavering intellectual honesty.”
― Brian Goedken

“When it comes to the Big Questions in Life, the preponderance of credible evidence is the best advisor to inform our beliefs.

The companion enterprise are the methods by which one interprets the evidence which demand unwavering intellectual honesty.”
― Brian Goedken

“Although every person, individually, may enthusiastically believe in innovation, collectively the Invisible Axe emerges.”
― Safi Bahcall, Loonshots: How to Nurture the Crazy Ideas That Win Wars, Cure Diseases, and Transform Industries

“We are sometimes reminded that we are not always rational, when someone spits as a response to a foul smell.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“...As Joe walked back to them, he heard the cow elk gurgle and settle into the grass on top of her calf.

"This is what wolves do," Joe said, his voice calm, a betrayal of what he felt. "I'm not saying they shouldn't be here, but this is what they do. They're wolves. I know it sounds real nice to say they're magical and beautiful and they balance nature and restore an ecosystem--and it's true, they do that. But this is how they do it. They go after the weakest first. When the mother stays back, the wolves open a hole in her belly and pull out her entrails. Then they wait until she doesn't have the strength to protect herself, then they'll move in and tear her throat out.”
― C.J. Box, Savage Run

“You cannot really convince a man who has always been blind that he does not see.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“Así pues: ello sea satis para decirte que tu vocación por el precipicio no es renunciante o censurable: sino reposada, sabia, honestísima: solemne incluso, ya que toda una vida es necesaria para la consumación de la gran caída; et también: rationalissima.”
― Manganelli Giorgio

“Sound reasoning is impossible without truth.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“We can observe, but reasoning about what we observe requires truth.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Truth is only available in Christ.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Christ is real and knowable.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Whoever sincerely seeks Christ receives Christ, and Christ reveals truth.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Christ leads, teaches, and corrects all who follow Him.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“We know Christ exists because we know Him.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Without Christ, the human mind resorts to made-up stuff for reason.”
― Petros Scientia

“Without Christ, we can’t rationally reason beyond what we can observe.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate

“Faith isn’t making believe but comes by hearing and hearing by God’s rhema.”
― Petros Scientia, Exposing the REAL Creation-Evolution Debate