Top 236 Rationality Quotes & Sayings

Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

I am beyond logic and rationality.

Why continue? Because we must. Because we have the call. Because it is nobler to fight for rationality without winning than to give up in the face of continued defeats. Because whatever true progress humanity makes is through the rationality of the occasional individual and because any one individual we may win for the cause may do more for humanity than a hundred thousand who hug their superstitions to their breast.

In healthy individuals, emotions don't distort rationality, they enhance it!

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

The outcome of a non-constant-sum game may be dictated by the individual rationality of the respective players without satisfying a criterion of collective rationality.

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

I mean, I think it's a two-way relationship: I think you should not have too much faith in your own rationality. You should not have too much faith in the rationality of, you know, anybody else either. We all learn together about the way the world is, and I think it's a sort of antidote to wishful thinking of all kinds.

The willingness to change one’s mind in the light of new evidence is a sign of rationality not weakness.

You have to be just as mistrustful of straightforward rationality in business as you do of a uniquely gut approach.

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality

Mental or spiritual health, which is rationality, makes for progress, and the future demands greater and greater mental or spiritual health, greater and greater rationality. The brain must dominate and direct both the individual and society in the time to come, not the belly and the heart.

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

Who is the brave man--he who feels no fear? If so, then bravery is but a polite term for a mind devoid of rationality and imagination.

Rationality went down the drain donkey's years ago and hasn't been seen since.

Rationality will not save us.

Men prosper or fail, survive or perish in proportion to the degree of their rationality.

Fantasies have to remain dirty. Cleanliness, scrupulousness and rationality are poison for eroticism.

Scientists are not the paragons of rationality, objectivity, openmindedness and humility that many of them might like others to believe.

Why do we not exhaust the heritage of the ages, spiritual and material for our immediate pleasure, and let posterity go hang? So far as simple rationality is concerned, self-interest can advance no argument against the appetite of present possessors. Yet within some of us, a voice that is not the demand of self-interest or pure rationality says that we have no right to give ourselves enjoyment at the expense of our ancestors' memory and our descendants' prospects. We hold our present advantages only in trust.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

Rationality tied to moral decency is the most powerful joint instrument for good that our planet has ever known.

It is not rational to assume, without evidence, that rationality can disclose everything about the world, just because it can disclose some things. Our intuition in favour of rationality, where we are inclined to use it, is just that - an intuition. Reason is founded in intuition and ends in intuition, like a pair of massive bookends.

Rationality is not just something you do so that you can make more money, it is a binding principle. Rationality is a really good idea. You must avoid the nonsense that is conventional in one's own time. It requires developing systems of thought that improve your batting average over time.

I think excessive rationality can be very dangerous. Certainly the kind of rationality we've seen in the last hundred years, and still see on a daily basis when Madeleine Albright says that it's all right, we have to live with the idea of hundreds of thousands of Iraqi children dying because it contains Saddam Hussein.

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful.

Reality trumps rationality.

Rationality is not one of this industry's attributes.

A conviction akin to religious feeling of the rationality or intelligibility of the world lies behind all scientific work of a high order.

If there is no wisdom, rationality can be very dangerous.

Unfortunately, addicts don't respond to reason or rationality.

The tangible source of exploitation disappears behind the façade of objective rationality.

The rationality of the ruled is always the weapon of the rulers.

I’m not insane, I’m voluntarily indifferent to conventional rationality.

I have a theatrical temperament. I'm not interested in the middle road - maybe because everyone's on it. Rationality, reasonableness bewilder me.

Hatred is a form of faith, distilled by passion to remove all rationality.

Unlike the masses, intellectuals have a taste for rationality and an interest in facts.

Rationality of thought imposes a limit on a person's concept of his relation to the cosmos.

Nothing sedates rationality like large doses of effortless money.

Man is a mixture of desires that extend beyond his knowledge and often result in action conflicting with rationality.

What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.

It is important to reclaim for humanity the ground that has been taken from it by various arbitrarily narrow formulations of the demands of rationality

I would warn against too much of a radical devotion to rationality. Rationality is an illusion, an invented concept, a construct from the mind of man. It is not a property of the universe. Rationality may be a useful tool when it suits our purposes, however, it is merely a measuring stick, calibrated against what we know of the nature of the universe - all of which may or may not be completely inaccurate.

The music of the soul is also the music of salesmanship. Exchange value, not truth value counts. On it centers the rationality of the status quo, and all alien rationality is bent to It.

The ontological concept of truth is in the centre of a logic which may serve as a model of pre- technological rationality. It is the rationality of a two-dimensional universe of discourse which, contrasts with the of thought and behavior that develop in the execution of the technological project.

European policy is always an interplay of rationality and emotion.

The perceived world is the always-presupposed foundation of all rationality, all value, and all existence.

Definitions are the guardians of rationality, the first line of defense against the chaos of mental disintegration.

Moral questions may not have objective answers-whether revealed by God or by science-but they do have rational ones, answers rooted in a rationality that emerges out of social need. That rationality can only be discovered through exercising the human potential for rational dialogue, the potential for thinking about the world, and for discussing, debating and persuading others. Values can never be entirely wrenched apart from facts; but neither can they be collapsed into facts. It is the existence of humans as moral agents that allows us to act as the bridge between facts and values.

To know one's own desires, their meaning and their costs requires the highest human virtue: rationality.

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.

Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

Rationality is what we do to organize the world, to make it possible to predict. Art is the rehearsal for the inapplicability and failure of that process.

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

When you look at any experimental work not directly related to economics, but trying to test rational behavior in other ways, experiments have conspicuously failed to show rational behavior. Macro evidence certainly suggests deviations from rationality, but I don't want to say the rationality hypothesis is completely wrong. If you have any introspective idea or experimental idea about people's behavior, it seems to be incompatible with the really full scale rational expectations.

The precarious ontological link between Logos and Eros is broken, and scientific rationality emerges as essentially neutral.

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.