346 Quotes About Rationality

Without Christ, the human mind resorts to made-up stuff for reason.

You just need to come to Jesus, listen to Him, and yield yourself in willing submission. You need to know Him. And everyone who seeks Him finds Him. He’s real and knowable.

Reasoning built on lies isn’t sound.

It considered trying to explain their error to them, but what would be the use? They would only go away with hurt feelings. You can't always expect people, or squirrels, to be rational.

The way most people use their minds is analogous to an ambulance that is used only as an umbrella.

Experience cannot beat logic, and interpretations of observational evidence which are not in line with the laws of logical reasoning are no refutation of these but the sign of a muddled mind (or would one accept someone’s observational report that he had seen a bird that was red and non-red all over at the same time as a refutation of the law of contradiction rather than the pronouncement of an idiot?).

The reader who thinks that rationality does not require a definition should ponder the following: I'll give you a million dollars to do something irrational.

A man’s “interests” depend on the kind of goals he chooses to pursue, his choice of goals depends on his desires, his desires depend on his values—and, for a rational man, his values depend on the judgment of his mind.

You cannot really convince a man who has always been blind that he does not see.