Rational Thinking Quotes

“The vagaries of love with all its unpredictable and capricious meanders may be a hurdle in keeping life on an even keel. Rational thinking and irrational feeling don’t always get along very well. (" Love as dizzy as a cathedral” )”
― Erik Pevernagie

“Perhaps the possibility of me being eaten at any moment was interfering with my rationality.”
― Neal Asher, Lockdown Tales

“Mensa is a club restricted to high-IQ individuals, and one must pass IQ-type tests to be admitted. Yet 44 percent of the members of this club believed in astrology, 51 percent believed in biorhythms, and 56 percent believed in the existence of extraterrestrial visitors—all beliefs for which there is not a shred of evidence.”
― Keith E. Stanovich, What Intelligence Tests Miss: The Psychology of Rational Thought

“Placebo brings comfort, not change.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“Intellect is supposed to enhance our humanity, not undermine it.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Myths are healthy for creativity,
If you can tell myths from reality.
Imagination is almost a superpower,
If you can wield it without conspiracy.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“You are in a brain, light-years of sight!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Tum Dunya Tek Millet: Greatest Country on Earth is Earth

“Culture transcends state,
Liberty transcends law.
Conscience transcends scripture.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World

“Any rational thinking person who believes people are entitled to their opinions should not be angry when they express one.”
― Eduvie Donald

“In the absence of love all logic is treason.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“The living need no ancestral consent on how to think, feel and behave.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“The living need no ancestral consent
on how to think, feel and behave.
Each generation must carve their life
based on new reason of their time,
while in heart their feet are firmly rooted.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Bible without benevolence is bogus,
Church without reason makes SCOTUS.
Faith without common sense,
and intellect without sentiment,
are both equally dangerous.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Faith without common sense, and intellect without sentiment, are both equally dangerous.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Not everything illogical is superstition,
Not everything logical aids civilization.
Facts and fiction both have a place,
in civilizing the world for human race.
To know their place, first you gotta be human.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Faith without common sense,
and intellect without sentiment,
are both equally dangerous.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“Tell me you shall stand up to injustice 'n prejudice, and embrace scientific evidence without resistance, and I shall retire tomorrow - in peaceful contentment.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Charge up your mind with facts and reason,
Charge up your heart with love and vision.
Backbone alive repels cowardly inaction,
Even if peddled by thousand year tradition.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Bulletproof Backbone: Injustice Not Allowed on My Watch

“We mustn't go back to living in caves by compromising all rationality, but at the same time, we mustn't practice rationality to such an extreme that we kill the very warmth of the human spirit.”
― Abhijit Naskar, I Vicdansaadet Speaking: No Rest Till The World is Lifted

“En ausencia de amor toda lógica es traición.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Either Right or Human: 300 Limericks of Inclusion

“You gotta surpass your intellect and belief, if you want to stand as healer and peacemaker.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“We don’t need to build a world of faith,
We don’t need to build a world of logic.
We just need to build a world human enough,
To place without prejudice, all faith and logic.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Iman Insaniyat, Mazhab Muhabbat: Pani, Agua, Water, It's All One

“There is nothing supernatural about visions - or to be more accurate, contrary to traditional belief, it's not messages from some extraterrestrial domain. Visions are indeed messages from a mysterious realm alright, but like the everyday realm of human perception, the transcendental realm as well is creation of brain chemicals. I won't go into details here, as I already did that in my early days. One of my earliest works, Autobiography of God, contains a detailed analytical account of the neurobiology of transcendental experiences. However, the question is not whether there is an explanation, the question is, is it worth explaining! Because, while sometimes the lack of explanation facilitates superstition, some things are better left unexplained - such as, love.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavatan: 100 Demilitarization Sonnets

“- My brain tells me this is nothing. But my blood wants it. I am sorry.
-Why be sorry? You think this is a good thing to be all brain and no blood? It is as bad as being all blood and no brain. The right mixture - that is what is important.”
― Lawrence Sanders, The Anderson Tapes

“By controlling our wants and emotions at the top of the upside-down pyramid, we can avoid the trap at the bottom.”
― Scott Shumway, The Invisible Four-letter Word: The Secret to Getting What You Really Want in Life.

“Heart alive knows the worth of brain,
Hence, it never undermines reason.
Sometimes reason must take a backseat,
that doesn't make it redundant.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Dervis Vadisi: 100 Promissory Sonnets

“Defend principle, not prejudice.
Support reformation, not rigidity.
Be responsible, not reckless.
Support correction, not conformity.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yüz Şiirlerin Yüzüğü (Ring of 100 Poems, Bilingual Edition): 100 Turkish Poems with Translations

“Rationality bends under pressure,
Thought bends under pressure,
Intelligence bends under pressure -
Only love is crazy enough to stand unbent,
even under pressure of cataclysmic proportion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Yaralardan Yangın Doğar: Explorers of Night are Emperors of Dawn

“Tierratitan, Sonnet

I only have one advice for you,
own your life, from head to toe -
unapologetically alive and original,
not a carbon copy, with second hand woe.

Civilization is not a conjuring trick,
Civilization is a long labor of life.
You don't figure out everything overnight,
You figure out things over time.

Sweet dreams are made of sweat-n-dare.
Sweat makes it sweet, dare brings it true.
Sweet society is made of reason-n-care,
When I'm your shelter, my shelter is you.

I be your vision, you be my mission.
Divided we drown, together, Tierratitan.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets

“I only have one advice for you, own your life, from head to toe - unapologetically alive and original, not a carbon copy, with second hand woe.”
― Abhijit Naskar, World War Human: 100 New Earthling Sonnets