Top Rationality Quotes

Objectivity cannot be equated with mental blankness; rather, objectivity resides in recognizing your preferences and then subjecting them to especially harsh scrutiny — and also in a willingness to re...

There's great peace in surrendering to principles

Rationality Definition

(n.) The quality or state of being rational; agreement with reason; possession of reason; due exercise of reason; reasonableness.

That which does not come by logic, does not leave by logic.

A Christian telling an atheist they're going to hell is as scary as a child telling an adult they're not getting any presents from Santa.

A man goes to a foreign country and kills somebody who's not aggressing against him; in a Hawaiian shirt he's a criminal, in a green costume he's a hero who gets a parade and a pension. So that, as a...

Education levels are highly and negatively correlated to religious belief. In other words, ignorance is bliss.

But there seems to have been an actual decline in rational thinking. The United States had become a place where entertainers and professional athletes were mistaken for people of importance. They were...

Do you know, I sometimes, catch myself wishing that I too were blind to the facts of life and only knew its fancies and illusions. They're wrong, all wrong, of course, and contrary to reason; but in t...

The saddest thing about these imagined deathbed conversions is that, even if they were real, they could hardly be seen as victories for Christ. They are stories in which the final pain of a fatal dise...

Reasonable doubt trumps everything.

Lies don't make you happy. They just make you lie about being happy.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

If God meant for people to fly, He would have given them brains.

One of chief pieces of advice I give to aspiring rationalists is "Don't try to be clever." And, "Listen to those quiet, nagging doubts." If you don't know, you don't know what you don't know, you don'...

It's difficult to know where to begin, sir.''Yes, the beginning is the tricky part. But perhaps there is no beginning, perhaps we can't look that far back.' He got up from his desk and went over to th...

Leaders console the world with their speeches, heroes console the world with their actions.

Careful. When you dabble too much with reason life becomes nothing but a process of dying.

Rationality and common sense never goes out of fashion.

Take practical and rational steps in maximizing your time

Anyone who engages in the practice of psychotherapy confronts every day the devastation wrought by the teachings of religion.