346 Quotes About Rationality

Compassion without discipline is egregious self-sabotage.

We may not yet know the right way to go, but we should at least stop going in the wrong direction.

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

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

If we are ever going to achieve a rational approach to organizing our affairs, we have to dignify the process of admitting to being wrong. It doesn't help matters at all if the media, or your friends, accuse you of "flip-flopping" when you change your mind. Changing our minds is our hope for the future.

Those who make conversations impossible, make escalation inevitable.

Considering he was neither priest nor scholar, the young man gave sensible, thoughtful replies -- the more so, perhaps, for being untrained, for he had not learned what he should believe or should not believe. Present a statement to him in flagrant contradiction to all Christian doctrine and he could be persuaded to agree on its good sense, unless he remembered it was the sort of thing of which pyres are made for the incautious.

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.

It was a fairy tale, no fooling. It was unreality becoming real. This frightened her. Because people don't care for unreality becoming real. It pricks their well-fed minds, you see, with something like a hunger pang. They prefer the logical stuffiness of expectancy. It is only at certain times that they weaken, letting imagination in. That's the time to get them. (“The Disinheritors”)