Ann Coulter Quotes

One of the functions of intelligence is to take account of the dangers that come from trusting solely to the intelligence.

If one devalues rationality, the world tends to fall apart.

I like to go after the foibles, basically of beliefs that are held without question. If people still want to believe in their stuff after that, that's great - as long as they just have a chance to step back and look at it for a second. Sometimes, you don't even realize what you've been thinking for 20 years.

I have made good judgments in the past. I have made good judgments in the future.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

In a bubble, anyone who argues pessimistically is seen as crazy.

Regardless of the magnitude of the decision, our brains make it hard for us to keep the perspective we need to make good choices.

Statistics are no substitute for judgment.

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.

It's easier to poke holes in an idea than think of ways to fill them. And it's easier to focus on the 100 reasons you shouldn't do something rather than the one reason you should.

I'm bad at rationalisation - very bad.

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

To the fantastic mental illness of Rationalism, hard facts are regrettable things, and to talk about them is to create them.

A Whig [Liberal] may be a fool, a Tory [Conservative] must be so.

But what if our intelligence is wrong?

One cannot always be right in our complex world; no dishonor attends an incorrect choice among plausible outcomes drawn from a properly constructed argument.

Emotion is a rotten base for politics.

One of the biggest challenges we have, as business owners and people, is that we think in linear terms.

When the intelligence is making a policymaker too happy, he ought to challenge it, and even if he doesn't, the intelligence briefer needs to launch a red team against his own conclusions to see if he can hold his ground.

I think President Obama is clearly, you know, a Republican. I know, because in the 1990s I was a Republican, and he's way to the right of me, and I've hardly changed any positions.

It's very personal to me and doesn't work for everybody, but what I have found in my experience is that when I make pro and con lists, it's usually because I am trying to talk myself out of a good idea or talk myself into a really bad one.

We live in an epoch where rational reasoning associated with evidence isn't universally accepted and is, in fact, in jeopardy. That worries me a lot.

I'm disturbed when people let superstition, magical thinking, extreme conspiracy theories and so on blur their minds.

The weakness of human reason appears more evidently in those who know it not than in those who know it.