Irrational optimism, never, ever, ever give up

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

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

— Robertson Davies

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

— Christopher Hitchens

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

The advance of science spares us from irrational dread.

— Martin Rees

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

— Edward Cullen

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

— Tim Wise

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

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

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

— Khaled Hosseini

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

— Gilbert Andrew Hugh Gordon

“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

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

In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be different from…

— Aristotle

Advancing bourgeois society liquidates memory, time, recollection as irrational leftovers of the past.

— Theodor Adorno