Rationalism Vs Empiricism Quotes

#1. The grandmothers are the most prayerful creatures on the planet. They don't back down until they see the results.

Euginia Herlihy

#2. In philosophical terms, the opposite of rationalism is not irrationalism but empiricism, that is, a willingness to form beliefs on the basis of experience rather than from a priori deduction. Empirical evidence never yields the dogmatic certainty that accompanies logical deduction.

John Quiggin

#3. Life is too short to be little. Man is never so manly as when he feels deeply, acts boldly, and expresses himself with frankness and with fervor.

Benjamin Disraeli

#4. Which animal the ruler should impersonate depends strongly on what animals the followers are.

Geert Hofstede

#5. Without a best friend to tell stories to, it almost didn't matter if they even happened.

Leila Howland

#6. All our knowledge begins with the senses, proceeds then to the understanding, and ends with reason. There is nothing higher than reason.

Immanuel Kant

#7. I don't spend much because a lot of it is freebies. Though, usually, I pay.

Sonam Kapoor

#8. Night had come - night that she loved of all times, night in which the reflections in the dark pool of the mind shine more clearly than by day.

Virginia Woolf

#9. The rationalist imagines an imbecile-free society; the empiricist and imbecile-proof one, or even better, a rationalist-proof one.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#10. I like to prove things wrong.

Millard Drexler

#11. A confession you make merely to illuminate the murky corners of your little life may end up lighting the path to freedom for a thousand other hearts.

Martha Beck

#12. Faith is that which, knowing the Lord's will, goes and does it; or, not knowing it, stands and waits, content in ignorance as in knowledge, because God wills - neither pressing into the hidden future, nor careless of the knowledge which opens the path of action

George MacDonald

#13. Ray Rice was beat up last year

Phil Simms

#14. You cannot create prosperity by law. Sustained thrift, industry, application, intelligence, are the only things that ever do, or ever will, create prosperity. But you can very easily destroy prosperity by law.

Theodore Roosevelt

#15. The nonconformist and the rebel say all manner of unanswerable things against the existing republic, but discover to our sense no plan of house or state of their own.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#16. I will fight for what I believe in until I drop dead. And that's what keeps you alive.

Barbara Castle, Baroness Castle Of Blackburn

#17. Gay culture is in a coming-out process of its own. From out of the closets in the '60s, the culture moved onto the disco floors of the '70s and through the hospital wards of the '80s and onwards to the streets.

Lance Loud