Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead… — Rita Mae Brown Copy Share Image
-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences. — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification. — Morton Irving Seiden Copy Share Image
Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant — Charlie Chaplin Copy Share Image
We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless:… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
I have huge admiration for people who think like the effective altruist, who try to rationally think about how they can change… — Paul Bloom Copy Share Image
“Fear is something akin to catching a mouse in a bear trap. We mistakenly thought that the thing that we were trying… — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But… — Michael Scheuer Copy Share Image
I'm not a monarchist. But I'm English. And I have an irrational emotion for my country. — Damon Albarn Copy Share Image
A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained.… — P. T. Barnum Copy Share Image
Why will someone sell you a dollar for 50 cents? Because in the short run, people are irrational on both the optimistic… — Peter Cundill Copy Share Image
The more one studies paleontology, the more certain one becomes that evolution is based upon faith alone; exactly the same sort of… — Louis T. Moore Copy Share Image
Fear of serious injury alone cannot justify oppression of free speech and assembly. Men feared witches and burnt women. It is the… — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
This guy goes to a psychiatrist and says, Doc, my brother’s crazy. He thinks he’s a chicken. The doctor says, Well, why… — Woody Allen Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
I don't get irrational about it, but I do have a deeply-rooted competitive spirit. Not necessarily towards other people, but towards any… — Sam Hunt Copy Share Image
I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity. — Alexander Girard Copy Share Image
Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and… — Karl Mannheim Copy Share Image
If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents… — Lars Peter Hansen Copy Share Image
Did it ever occur to you, that there is no conflict of interests among men, neither in business nor in trade nor… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the… — Russell E. Train Copy Share Image
Last year a friend went dark in a nervous city alone, the sea flashing against his glasses, the sea sorted out at… — Sylvia Plath Copy Share Image
If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality. — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
Aestheticism and radicalism must lead us to jettison reason, and to replace it by a desperate hope for political miracles. This irrational… — Karl Popper Copy Share Image
“So that, upon the whole, we may conclude, that the Christian Religion not only was at first attended with miracles, but even… — David Hume Copy Share Image
