Irrational Quotes · Page 22

I read the Bible when I was 12 while studying for my bar mitzvah. I was also reading a lot of Dilbert…

— Simon Rich

“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

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

— Mark Twain

Everyone declares that love is irrational, and yet everytime this statement is proven correct, they profess amazement. They seem to assume that…

— Jessica Zafra

We have to have a deep, patient compassion for the fears of others and irrational mania of those who hate or condemn…

— Thomas Merton

A real man does not think of victory or defeat. He plunges recklessly towards an irrational death.

— Yamamoto Tsunetomo

Even though most people were disconnected from [travel ban], the moment amplified a fairly massive and somewhat irrational fear that exists in…

— Peter van Agtmael

I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it.

— Tim Allen

As a German philosopher writing in the aftermath of the Nazi regime, Marcuse understood the sleep inducing force of indoctrination, its power…

— Daniel Pinchbeck

I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's…

— Ted Leo

People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image

— Colin Fletcher

I don't want to be in a position that could make me vomit, like air travel. I've purloined airsick bags and stuffed…

— Scott Stossel

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize…

— George MacDonald

Magic is a two-way process: you use it to change yourself and in return, it changes you. Letting yourself enter a magical…

— Phil Hine

I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for…

— Kiersten White

In fact a man in love or one consumed with hatred creates symbols for himself, as a superstitious man does, from a…

— Cesare Pavese

Humans are hard-wired to be irrational when it comes to financial decisions. We must understand that so we don't become the sucker…

— Whitney Tilson

In our day the feeling of patriotism is an unnatural, irrational, and harmful feeling, and a cause of a great part of…

— Leo Tolstoy

The more irrational you make your opponent, the more control you have over him in the ring.

— Roy Jones Jr

The utilitarian behaves sensibly in all that is required for preservation but never takes account of the fact that he must die...…

— Allan Bloom

Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great…

— Omar Samra

He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was…

— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie

[The Middle East conflict ] just kind of ran its course for me. For a long time I could justify doing it…

— Peter van Agtmael

Writing fiction is fundamentally an irrational act.

— Dale Peck

To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty... and... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's... all irrational.

— William Faulkner