Quotes about Rationality
Reason is flawless, de jure, but reasoners are not, de facto.
- Peter Kreeft
St. Thomas is as practical and plain and reasonable in ethics as Aristotle, or Confucius, or your uncle.
- Peter Kreeft
T]o scorn the dictate of reason is to scorn the commandment of God (I-II,19,5).
- Peter Kreeft
4) But only man knows consciously and rationally, and only man's loves can be conscious and rational and responsible through free will.
- Peter Kreeft
The birth of science was the death of superstition.
- Thomas Henry Huxley
But when our faith causes us to check our brains at the door, we have fallen far from the God who gave us the capacity for reason.
- Dan Boone
I add this, that rational ability without education has oftener raised man to glory and virtue, than education without natural ability.
- Cicero
Man is a reasoning animal.
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca
Discernment can be described as the ability to find the root of the matter, and it relies on intuition as well as rational thought.
- John Maxwell
And, speaking generally, passion seems not to be amenable to reason, but only to force.
- Aristotle
Find a friend who can speak rationality into your irrational impulses. A friend who will hold you accountable, speak the truth in love, and pray for you.
- Lysa TerKeurst
Faith is not a blind, irrational conviction. In order to believe, we must know what we believe, and the grounds on which our faith rests.
- Charles Hodge