Empiricism vs Rationalism - I slightly prefer empiricism

I prefer empiricism a bit more for two reasons:

1. Logic can be used incorrectly, and often is.

2. Facts are more reliable than reasoning

Rationalism creates knowledge from logical laws. For example, a contradiction means that something is wrong.

But rationalism is limited in this way, because in any reasoning without clear contradiction, rationalism can easily lead to incorrect conclusions or to wishful thinking. Even mathematicians, who work with most pure form of rationalism, make mistakes.

Empiricism, on the other hand, focuses on gathering as much knowledge as possible, first.

Its best to use both empiricism and rationalism, with slight focus on empiricism because you need facts before you can reason. In facts, facts often support correct logic, where mere thinking about contradictions could itself contradict with an unknown fact.

All of the empiricists reject a priori arguments for the existence of God, such as Descartes's argument that he must exist because he is infinitely perfect and existence is a perfection. Hume's response to this is typical of empiricists. He says that “there is an evident absurdity in pretending to demonstrate a matter of fact, or to prove it by any arguments a priori”, since “Whatever we conceive as existent, we can also conceive as non-existent”

A conclusion is the result of applying logic to your premises, so any attempt to come to a justified belief or decision requires both. Neither gets preference, if either is missing or is wrong/invalid the conclusion will not follow.

we need both schools of thought. we need facts, and we need to be able to draw conclusions from those facts. empiricists might be right that we can't know anything a priori, but for all intents and purposes, they wonder off into lacking common sense since they deny what our perceive. they are technically correct, but for practical purposes, it's all a charade. 

You summed it up the best I could

I summed it up the best I could.

The categories of Rationalism and Empiricism have been developed by the human mind to facilitate the organization, simplification, and comprehension of external or internal observations. They are based on a consensus of opinion among some or all humans and lack any fundamental basis. At their core, any collective agreement is simply an assumption. All assumptions are equally true and false, as Truth and Falsehood are themselves merely assumptions. The act of assigning one assumption to another is also an assumption. This creates a circular pattern in which all elements are interconnected.