Irrational Quotes

“Animals are irrational men”

— Safir Kassim Booudjelal

People are irrational - and predictably so.

— Dan Ariely

Sometimes motorists do irrational things.

— Erik Prince

The irrational haunts the metaphysical.

— Annie Dillard

Happy Pi Day! Be a little irrational today!

— Anonymous

Reason cannot break out of its own loop.

— Mason Cooley

It's the irrational things that interest me.

— Harrison Birtwistle

In everything one thing is impossible: rationality.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Pathological Stubbornness and Irrational Optimism – Lessons I’ve learned on my entrepreneurial journey

— Ruth Kelly

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

— Dennis Prager

The ending of irrational fantasies is always going to come as a rude jolt.

— Dominic Grieve

“No churchmen, I notice. Of course not. What use have they for a world without irrational fear?”

— Jonathan L. Howard

Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made.

— Stephenie Meyer

The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.

— Wallace Stevens

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

— Erich Fromm

I have no prejudices: all my irrational hatreds are based on solid evidence.

— Ashleigh Brilliant

“Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will…

— Anthony Liccione

Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities…

— Benedict Cumberbatch

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

— Albert Ellis

I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being…

— Rita Mae Brown

“We are human, we are irrational, we have foibles, and the power of the mind over the body is greater than anything…

— Ben Goldacre

My pictures are about everyday life combined with theatrical effect. I want them to feel outside of time, to take something routine…

— Gregory Crewdson

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle…

— Scott Adams

It is one thing to obey a government order. It is quite another to succumb to resurrected irrational fears, especially of 'the…

— Rohini Nilekani

A rationalist is simply someone for whom it is more important to learn than to be proved right; someone who is willing…

— Karl Popper

If you want to - if you want to engage in conspiracy theories that the White House and the vice president intended…

— Kate O'Beirne

Do you know that my personal crusade in life (in the philosophical sense) is not merely to fight collectivism, nor to fight…

— Ayn Rand

The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not…

— Steve Allen

A person who believes that Elvis is still alive is very unlikely to get promoted to a position of great power and…

— Sam Harris

“In my short stay I realized that without a deep understanding of human psychology, without the acceptance that we are all crazy,…

— Chris Voss

I'm not sure most of the people that get caught up in the middle of a bubble can be described as irrational.…

— Paul Samuelson

Mark the babe not long accustomed to this breathing world; One that hath barely learned to shape a smile, though yet irrational…

— William Wordsworth

For those of you who are seeing the spiritual life, I recommend these four daily practices: Spend time alone each day in…

— Peace Pilgrim

It began with one act of madness, and it ended with another. John Brown heard history's clock strike in the night and…

— Bruce Catton

I think this fear of insanity is comparable to the fear people once had of falling off the edge of the world.…

— Robert M. Pirsig

We have this highly irrational system of incentivizing innovation for clean and green technologies, where we allow the innovator to have a…

— Thomas Pogge

The truth is that no one who hasn't actually experienced the senseless chaos and violence of combat can possibly understand it, but…

— Khaled Hosseini

Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor…

— Ayn Rand

“There is nothing illogical in the desire of the "have-nots" to appropriate the wealth of the "haves"; in fact, it is part…

— J.F.C. Fuller

“I was afraid of anyone in a costume. A trip to see Santa might as well have been a trip to sit…

— Paul Feig