Irrational Quotes

377 quotes by 318 authors

It's not an irrational decision, I've been thinking about this for quite a while and maybe it'll be good for me [on his career break — Ronnie O'Sullivan
The classicist, and the naturalist who has much in common with him, refuse to see in the highest works of art anything but the exercise… — Herbert Read
If you deeply appreciate and love what creative people do and how they think, which is usually in unpredictable and irrational ways, then you can… — Bernard Arnault
Among irrational animals the love of the offspring and of the parents for each other is extraordinary because God, who created them, compensated for the… — Saint Basil
Society doesn't need that everybody is behaving in the full normal way... like people in a Buddhist monastery... But eccentricity may also connect with the… — John Muir
Love is an irrational force, making humans do all sorts of strange and wonderful things like write poetry and take up the ukulele. — Amy Dickinson
It is not intuitive ease I am after, but rather a point of view which is sufficiently definite to clear up some difficulties, and to… — Karl Popper
[T]he only real moral crime that one man can commit against another is the attempt to create, by his words or actions, an impression of… — Ayn Rand
I feel that the time is always right to do what is right. Where progress for the Negro in America is concerned, there is a… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Post-Modern space is historically specific, rooted in conventions, unlimited or ambiguous in zoning and irrational or transformational in its relation of parts to wholeâ€¦â€¦. â€¦skew… — Charles Jencks
The creative individual not only respects the irrational in himself, but also courts the most promising source of novelty in his own thought. — Frank Barron
Everest is regarded as one of, if not the most challenging of human conquests. I was passionate about climbing and a great believer that one… — Omar Samra
A rational reaction against irrational excesses and vagaries of skepticism may * * * readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. — William E. Gladstone
A rational reaction against the irrational excesses and vagaries of scepticism may, I admit, readily degenerate into the rival folly of credulity. To be engaged… — William E. Gladstone
It is the function of speech to free men from the bondage of irrational fears. — Louis D. Brandeis
Mother love is the most powerful, the most irrational force on earth, even more powerful than sexual love. However, one does lead to the other,… — Rita Mae Brown
Every song has a composer, every book has an author, every car has a maker, every painting has a painter, and every building has a… — Ray Comfort
I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational. — Barry Commoner
As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers. — Cyril Connolly
Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit. — Bill Cosby

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