Top 654 Irrational Quotes & Sayings - Page 3
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Last updated on November 9, 2024.
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made.
To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.
Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.
Irrational barriers and ancient prejudices fall quickly when the question of survival itself is at stake.
What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.
God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world
I have an irrational fear that something bad is going to happen to me when I'm drinking out of a water fountain. I have no idea why.
There is nothing inhuman, evil, or irrational which does not give some comfort, provided it is shared by a group.
Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West.
Asking for a royally appointed prime minister is undemocratic. It is, pardon me, a mess. It is irrational.
At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.
It was futile to attack with reason the stout wall of irrational feelings that, as is known, is the stuff of which the female mind is made.
There are irrational fears. If you see a woman wearing a hijab and fear is your first thought, something's really wrong.
People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image
It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them.
The scars left from the child's defeat in the fight against irrational authority are to be found at the bottom of every neurosis.
I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.
Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity.
In its pure form, fascism is the sum total of all irrational reactions of the average human character.
Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.
Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.
These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.
How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at it as at a riddle.
A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.
I used to always prefer to text, and in fact got indignant when people called. This was totally irrational.
We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.
The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.
Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one can do nothing.
As an engineer, I learned that a long time ago: you don't want to get into a rational discussion about irrational subjects.
For centuries many of the world's distinguished philosophers have assaulted Christianity as being irrational, superstitious and absurd.
Hysteria is a chaotic and irrational emotional state caused by seeing how the world really operates.
Art is magic, not logic. This craze for the logical spirit in irrational shape is part of the present harmful mania for uniformity.
We want an Afghanistan that is shaped by the dreams of the great Afghan people, not by irrational fears and overreaching ambitions of others.
I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening to me.
The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.
There also appears to be another element in the soul, which, though irrational, yet in a manner participates in rational principle.
It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break
I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed.
What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.
I am a superior form of human and I have absolutely no quirks or irrational impulses of any kind.
Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.
Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.
The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.
Humans are hard-wired to be irrational when it comes to financial decisions. We must understand that so we don't become the sucker at the poker table.
It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from the material; from the lesson in one beating heart or one bleeding vein.
Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.
As long as men are free to speak, a small, rational minority will always prevail over an irrational majority.
The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.
We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn us.
Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?
These 3 topics will always generate 100+ comments of irrational/ridiculous people: Taxes, tipping, and spending on weddings.
The irrational may be attractive in the abstract, but not in cab drives, dinner guests, or elderly relatives.
It is one thing to obey a government order. It is quite another to succumb to resurrected irrational fears, especially of 'the other.'
Who would seriously want to listen to anything emanating from a quasi-chimpanzee's irrational bundle of mental accidents and energies?
Irrational crushes, infatuations, or obsessions. Whatever you want to label it, it's important to reach out to others.
Science fiction has always had a dark side. There has been a touch of the irrational and absurd in the genre from the very beginning.
