Quotes about Rationality

When I don't think biblically, I go nuts. I just go, 'This is crazy.'

Science is more than knowledge. Knowledge is the persuasion of what is true on adequate evidence.

The modesty that theology needs is the recognition that we cannot rationally comprehend God.

Today we are apt to downplay or disregard the importance of good thinking to strong faith; and some, disastrously, even regard thinking as opposed to faith. They do not realize that in so doing they are not honoring God, but simply yielding to the deeply anti-intellectualist currents of Western egalitarianism, rooted, in turn, in the romantic idealization of impulse and blind feeling found in David Hume, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and their nineteenth- and twentieth-century followers.

Ordinarily he was insane, but he had lucid moments when he was merely stupid.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Common sense is in spite of, not the result of, education.

In things pertaining to enthusiasm, no man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

I think young people really do care. They want to build their life on something that's solid and makes sense, that's rational, that's not built on mythology, make-believe and wishful thinking.

No man is sane who does not know how to be insane on proper occasions.

Reason is also choice.

Reason is the mistress and queen of all things.