Rationality quotes

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◆ Sometimes your heart tells you to help someone find their way, but your mind tells you that someone needs to find their path on their own to grow. Sometimes your heart tells you to love someone who is not on the same page as you, but your mind tells you your differences will end up pulling you both a part. Sometimes your heart tells you to endure the cheating and abuse with the hope of change, but your mind says you know you deserve better. Your heart and mind sometimes disagree; your fate will depend on whose advice you follow.

- Eugene Nathaniel Butler100

◆ Use logic instead of emotions to make important decisions.

- Sonya Parker99

◆ I hate to hear you talk about all women as if they were fine ladies instead of rational creatures. None of us want to be in calm waters all our lives.

- Jane Austen99

◆ Your strength as a rationalist is your ability to be more confused by fiction than by reality. If you are equally good at explaining any outcome, you have zero knowledge.

- Eliezer Yudkowsky99

◆ Reality is, you know, the tip of an iceberg of irrationality that we've managed to drag ourselves up onto for a few panting moments before we slip back into the sea of the unreal.

- Terence McKenna99

◆ Well, pray if you like, only you'd do better to use your judgment.

- Leo Tolstoy99

◆ Even intellectuals should have learned by now that objective rationality is not the default position of the human mind, much less the bedrock of human affairs.

- Roy Blount Jr99

◆ A rationalism of serving any living being with a consistent ethics and morality of an unquestionable nature in any sphere of activity is only PROFESSIONALISM.

- Anuj Somany99

◆ Selfishness is a bad habit. Thats why I always rationally think through my decisions to act without regard for others.

- Benson Bruno99

◆ One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.

- Friedrich Nietzsche99

◆ When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

- Rene Descartes99

◆ Talk sense to a fool and he calls you foolish.

- Euripides99

◆ Books choose their authors; the act of creation is not entirely a rational and conscious one.

- Salman Rushdie99

◆ It's a guy thing really means There's no rational thought pattern connected with it and you can't make it logical.

- Nikhil Saluja99

◆ Before you talk - Listen It may change what you say. Before you react - Think It may change how you react. Before you judge - Wait It may change your viewpoint. Before you quit - Try It may be the best thing you ever did.

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