The bodies of irrational animals are bent toward the…

Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for…

— Saint Basil

“When you deal with irrational animals, with things and circumstances, be generous and straightforward. You are rational; they are not.”

— Marcus Aurelius

Remember that failure is part of the process of successful running. Performance is a roller coaster; to think otherwise is irrational and will cause…

— Jerry Lynch

“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein may have…

— Steven Weinberg

“steam-tactics saga illustrates that (4) Rationalism, unlike empiricism, tends to assume an accretion of vested interests.”

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

At that moment, she cannot think of a more reckless, irrational thing than choosing to become a parent.

— Khaled Hosseini

My greatest personal mistake is ever to allow a word or moment that “doesn’t count,” i.e., that I do not refer to my own…

— Ayn Rand

America must deal once and for all with an utterly irrational health care financing system that allows private interests to make billions in profits…

— Suzanne Gordon

For people of color - especially African Americans - the idea that racist cops might frame members of their community is no abstract notion,…

— Tim Wise

But jealousy... it's a strange thing. So much more powerful then I would have thought. And irrational!

— Edward Cullen

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.

— Martin Rees

There are big, extremely irrational parts of the society, and they have now been mobilized politically by the Republican establishment, hoping that these people…

— Noam Chomsky

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

— Christopher Hitchens

“...the irrational will have its say, perhaps because 'irrational' is the wrong word for it.”

— Robertson Davies

It is true that from a behavioral economics perspective we are fallible, easily confused, not that smart, and often irrational. We are more like…

— Dan Ariely