Able Quote by Ashley Montagu

“We humans like to think we are creatures of reason. We aren't. The reality is that we make our decisions first and rationalize them…

— Scott Adams

Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.

— L.E. Modesitt Jr

Homo sapiens, the only creature endowed with reason, is also the only creature to pin its existence on things unreasonable.

— Henri Bergson

Human beings aren't rational animals; we're rationalizing animals who want to appear reasonable to ourselves.

— Elliot Aronson

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable…

— Aldous Huxley

The voice of reason is inaudible to irrational people.

— Mardy Grothe

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality.

— Anonymous

To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.

— George H. Smith

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

— Rita Mae Brown

Most specifically, irrationality means that rational systems are unreasonable systems. By that I mean that they deny the basic humanity, the human reason, of…

— George Ritzer

Human rationality depends critically on sophisticated emotionality. It is only because our emotional brain works so well that our reasoning can work at all.

— Jonathan Haidt

“Animals are irrational men”

— Safir Kassim Booudjelal