“That isn’t going to happen,” he told her. “It’s going to be all right” “Fool,” Kitai scoffed gently. “You do not know… — Jim Butcher 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
Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
North Koreans are irrational to some extent, but I don't think they're totally irrational. I think they watch American cable channels. I… — William J. Clinton Copy Share Image
Whenever humanity seems condemned to heaviness, I think I should fly like Perseus into a different space. I don't mean escaping into… — Italo Calvino 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
You'll think this is a bit silly, but I'm a bit--well, I have a thing about birds." "What, a phobia?" "Sort of."… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
The problem is that once the untrained mind has made a formal commitment to a religious philosophy - and it does not… — Steve Allen Copy Share Image
So let's set the record straight. Faith is not the opposite of reason. The opposite of faith is unbelief. And reason is… — Greg Koukl Copy Share Image
For the emergent process, as noted by the geneticist Theodore Dobzhansky, is neither random nor determined but creative. Just as in human… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
“In all societies, women are in double jeopardy; on the one hand we are expected to conform to certain emotional standards in… — Adrienne Rich Copy Share Image
Faith is not a leap in the dark; it’s the exact opposite. It’s a commitment based on evidence… It is irrational to… — John Lennox Copy Share Image
“This was my world: a world of truly irrational behavior. We spend our way into the poorhouse. We buy giant TVs and… — J.D. Vance Copy Share Image
It’s right to say that people fall in love. We don’t glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first… — Martin Pistorius Copy Share Image
I have a two-year-old who just turned three, and my four-year-old just turned five. I have the same irrational feelings taking them… — Vera Farmiga Copy Share Image
Whenever you are in the world of the tonal, you should be an impeccable tonal; no time for irrational crap. But whenever… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
The knowledge of God, the belief in God, is what I call an a-rational process. It's not rational - it doesn't proceed… — George Coyne Copy Share Image
The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is… — Hermann Broch Copy Share Image
I sense the world might be more dreamlike, metaphorical, and poetic than we currently believe--but just as irrational as sympathetic magic when… — David Byrne Copy Share Image
I did not agree..to having my article censored. ...The published report of the conference gives my name as a participant, but you… — John Yudkin Copy Share Image
“our irrationality happens the same way, again and again. Whether we are acting as consumers, businesspeople, or policy makers, understanding how we… — Dan Ariely Copy Share Image
Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
O, mighty, divinely delimited wisdom of walls, boundaries! I is perhaps the most magnificent of all inventions. Man ceased to be a… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never… — Jeanne Elium Copy Share Image
You married Elora?” “Yes, briefly.” Oren emphasized how fleeting it had been. “We were wed because we thought it would be a… — Amanda Hocking Copy Share Image
In [the soul] one part naturally rules, and the other is subject, and the virtue of the ruler we maintain to be… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
“This is one of the reasons I study psychology. I’ve never understood why people are so irrational. How supposedly intelligent people can… — G.F. Gustav Copy Share Image
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
We'll tell our secrets to the dark"-Adam "Okay"-Mia "So let's hear another of your irrational fears"-Adam "I'm scared of losing you"-Mia "I… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That… — Rowan Atkinson Copy Share Image
I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could… — Mohamed ElBaradei Copy Share Image
“To begin with rationality in opinion: I should define it merely as the habit of taking account of all relevant evidence in… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Denying that race matters is irrational in the face of segregation and all of the other forms of obvious racial inequity in… — Robin DiAngelo Copy Share Image
I'm telling you, [ real people] are not mad at Al-Qaeda. They are not mad at ISIS. They are not mad at… — Rush Limbaugh Copy Share Image
So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest,… — Gayle Forman Copy Share Image
One may rationally stick to a degenerating research programme until it is overtaken by a rival and even after. What one must… — Imre Lakatos Copy Share Image
Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become… — Dennis Prager Copy Share Image
Tastes and behavior are important in economics. Nobody denies that. But the question is: How much of behavior is irrational, and how… — Eugene Fama Copy Share Image
I don't think we are all irrational every time we fail to see through an argument in a book, but suppose it's… — Nomy Arpaly Copy Share Image
“Many people do simply awful things out of sincere religious belief, not using religion as a cover the way that Saddam Hussein… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image