The Greeks were the first intellectualists. In a world where the irrational had played the chief role, they came forward as the… — Edith Hamilton Copy Share Image
If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country. — Paul Monroe Copy Share Image
“Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join.” — Michelle Malkin Copy Share Image
The shape that poems make in the mind is an echo of something powerful in the cosmos. I do believe that, and… — Campbell McGrath Copy Share Image
Trump was the logical outcome of the Republican's irrational, racialized backlash to Obama that had utterly come to dominate the party's thinking. — Jonathan Chait Copy Share Image
To believe in faeries is to step into an enchanted space where the rational mind meets the irrational heart, and all things… — Brian Froud Copy Share Image
... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance. — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Randian heroes come off as metaphors for Jews because they are beset by irrational forces that try to bar them from the… — Florence King Copy Share Image
“You had me believing that I was crazy. Every time I broke down over what seemed like nothing, it was you.’ Bade… — Moryah DeMott Copy Share Image
My clinical psychologist wife of 40 years has always had a close intellectual influence on me. When I was beginning to talk… — Robert J. Shiller Copy Share Image
Congress remains in total denial as our liberties are rapidly fading before our eyes. The process is propelled by unwarranted fear and… — Ron Paul Copy Share Image
I'm a Taurus, which sounds like the name of a pickup truck. I'd prefer to be born under the sign of the… — Elliot Perlman Copy Share Image
Just as it would be madness to settle on medical treatment for the body of a person by taking an opinion poll… — Plato Copy Share Image
It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
Great performers require a measure of confidence that would strike many as absurd, unfounded, and downright irrational. They believe in themselves utterly,… — John Eliot Copy Share Image
For too long we have placed an irrational burden upon our oceans by demanding only a narrow selection of species, which has… — Barton Seaver Copy Share Image
As we grow older we become more conscious of the complexity, incoherence, and unreasonableness of human beings; this indeed is the only… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
“The traditional arguments for the existence of God have been fairly thoroughly criticised by philosophers. But the theologian can, if he wishes,… — J.L. Mackie Copy Share Image
Nor do I think we came from monkeys, by the wayThat's another piece of garbage. What the hell's it based on? We… — John Lennon Copy Share Image
As for me, you wonder why I am a socialist. I'll tell you. It is because socialism is inevitable; because the present… — Jack London Copy Share Image
All "public interest' legislation (and any distribution of money taken by force from some men for the unearned benefit of others) comes… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Don't be upset. Don't listen to me. I only meant that I am jealous of a dark, unconscious element, something irrational, unfathomable.… — Boris Pasternak Copy Share Image
It is irrational to charge high prices for socially valuable innovations as this guarantees that they will be underutilized. It is much… — Thomas Pogge Copy Share Image
In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the… — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image
I dont agree with those who think that the conflict is simply between two religions, namely Christianity and Islam... To me, the… — Taslima Nasrin Copy Share Image
I no longer idolize reason. I have come to accept that ninety percent of what we do is irrational and that we… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
I'm embarrassed to admit that I'm still scared of the dark. I have to have a light on all night. It's completely… — Louise Nurding Copy Share Image
Fear is ugly because it makes you irrational. Fear makes you jump to conclusions. Fear makes you reactionary. — David Heinemeier Hansson Copy Share Image
Rationalism, which is the feeling that everything is subject to and completely explicable by Reason, consequently rejects everything not visible and calculable. — Francis Parker Yockey Copy Share Image
Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel. — Francine Pascal Copy Share Image
Rational thinking is an important aspect of human nature, but we have imagination, we have ambition, we have irrational fear, we are… — Ha-Joon Chang Copy Share Image
I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people -… — Samantha Morton Copy Share Image
The insane have achieved political respectability while the sane act too good for it all. The irrational celebrate while the rational act… — Maureen Dowd Copy Share Image
How did reason come into the world? As is fitting, in an irrational manner, by accident. One will have to guess at… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational. — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
This is real. This is the real mad man theory. We have to be irrational and vindictive, so people don't know what… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
I have an irrational fear that I'm going to have a gruesome and untimely death because so many wonderful things are happening… — Margot Robbie Copy Share Image
“Mix the Protestant impulse to find the meaning and purpose in everything with the Enlightenment’s empiricism, and you get our American mania… — Kurt Andersen Copy Share Image
Many of her thoughts were perfect syllogisms; unluckily they always remained thoughts. Only a few were irrational assumptions; but, unfortunately, they were… — Thomas Hardy Copy Share Image
![“This is real. This is the real mad man theory. We have to be irrational and vindictive, so people don't know what we're up to. This is not [Donald] Trump and [Steve] Bannon, it's from the [Bill] Clinton era.” quote by Noam Chomsky](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/f8c/noam-chomsky-42_bills_this-is-real-this-is-the-real-mad-man-th_205079.jpg)
