Not to be absolutely certain is, I think, one of the essential things in rationality.
—Bertrand Russell
Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.
—Thomas H. Huxley
Only exceptionally rational men can afford to be absurd.
—Allan Goldfein
Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.
—Charles Baudelaire
Falling in love is not a rational process. It can’t be planned or avoided. It happens—for good or bad, it simply happens. I knew he’d eventually leave. I knew we couldn’t be together, but I fell anyway.
—Suzanne Selfors in Coffeehouse Angel
I can reason down or deny everything, except this perpetual Belly; feed he must and will, and I cannot make him respectable.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Gardening is not a rational act. What matters is the immersion of the hands in the earth, that ancient ceremony of which the Pope kissing the tarmac is merely a pallid vestigial remnant. In the spring, at the end of the day, you should smell like dirt.
—Margaret Atwood
You know that children are growing up when they start asking questions that have answers.
—John J. Plomp
When I was a little kid, I was really scared of the dark. But then I came to understand, dark just means the absence of photons in the visible wavelength 400 to 700 nanometers. Then I thought, well it's really silly to be afraid of a lack of photons. Then I wasn't afraid of the dark anymore after that.
—Elon Musk