Joseph Schumpeter Quotes

Talk about rationality can get very confusing unless the things with which rationality deals are also included.

A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations.

I possess a strong sense of reason.

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

My background is basically scientific math. My Dad was a physicist, so I have it in my blood somewhere. Scientific method is very important to me. I think anything that contradicts it is probably not true.

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment to discover plain truths or to reject absurdities and palpable contradictions.

Imagination is a poor matter when it has to part company with understanding.

Intellect confuses intuition.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

Reason alone cannot give you a whole steak, but it sure helps with identifying bologna.

Reasoning is the pastime of my whole household, and all this reasoning has driven out Reason.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

The scientific imagination always restrains itself within the limits of probability.

Anything that gives us new knowledge gives us an opportunity to be more rational.

I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

Wise men argue causes; fools decide them.

It is useless to tell one not to reason but to believe - you might as well tell a man not to wake but sleep.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Logic has made me hated in the world.

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

If you would judge, understand.

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know.