Lesswrong Rationality Quotes

#1. A strong memory is commonly coupled with infirm judgment.

Michel De Montaigne

#2. This is the nice note, I can't help thinking. But just like a sound, as soon as the note hits the air, it begins to fade.

David Levithan

#3. Don't trust thoughts because you think them, but because they obey specific trustworthy rules.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#4. How charming is divine Philosophy!
Not harsh, and crabbed as dull fools suppose,
But musical as is Apollo's lute,
And a perpetual feast of nectar'd sweets,
Where no crude surfet raigns.

John Milton

#5. You need one whole hell of a lot of rationality before it does anything but lead you into new and interesting mistakes.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#6. it is our capacity to doubt that will determine the future of civilization.

Richard Feynman

#7. The better you hear a thing put, the more certain you are there's another view.

Dorothy Richardson

#8. I believe in the perfect outcome
of every situation in my life.

Brian Tracy

#9. I am so happy to be on a show with writing I wanted to participate in.

Yancy Butler

#10. Are you happy?' he repeated quietly.
...
'Wouldn't you like to know?'
...
'Yes, or I would not ask. But apparently the child has returned and I shan't have my answer.' He moved away.
She wanted to shout that she was not a child but a woman, and the woman hurt.

Katharine Ashe

#11. assertions about men: sleazy, chancing, self-serving, porn-obsessed slackers.

Jojo Moyes

#12. Even here, even as we suffer, life is still worth living ...

Nando Parrado