Irrational Quotes
377 quotes by 318 authors
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So let's hear another one of your irrational fears. Mia grasped me by the arms and pulled herself in to my chest, like she was…
— Gayle Forman
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He was making her feel small and absurdly petulant and, worse yet, she suspected he was right. She always suspected he was right. For a…
— Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
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All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
— Friedrich Engels
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Maybe she still was a pretty-head, making up irrational stories about the empty forest. The longer she stayed alone out here, the more Tally understood…
— Scott Westerfeld
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I didn't ask you to catch me!" "You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid a hand behind…
— Shana Abe
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They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable.
— Melissa de la Cruz
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Our enemy is fear. Blinding, reason-killing fear. Fear consumes the truth and poisons all the evidence, leading us to false assumptions and irrational conclusions.
— Rick Yancey
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This isn't over," I said. "After everything we've been through, you don't get the right to brush me off. I'm not letting you off that…
— Becca Fitzpatrick
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There was quite a lot of competitiveness about it, with everybody wanting to beat not only cancer itself, but also the other people in the…
— John Green
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If I were to be totally sincere, I would say that I do not know why I live and why I do not stop living.…
— Emile M. Cioran
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... there is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.
— Neil deGrasse Tyson
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What is wrong with inciting intense dislike of a religion if the activities or teachings of that religion are so outrageous, irrational or abusive of…
— Rowan Atkinson
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-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.
— Alan Lightman
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We are all susceptible to the pull of viral ideas. Like mass hysteria. Or a tune that gets into your head that you keep humming…
— Neal Stephenson
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These things sneak up on him for no reason, these flashes of irrational happiness. It's probably a vitamin deficiency.
— Margaret Atwood
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You married Elora?†“Yes, briefly.†Oren emphasized how fleeting it had been. “We were wed because we thought it would be a good way to…
— Amanda Hocking
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Luck doesn't shine her light on each of us equally. She is arbitrary, irrational, unfair and sometimes downright cruel.
— Francine Pascal
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An increasing number of people who lead mental lives of great intensity, people who are sensitive by nature, notice the steadily more frequent appearance in…
— Knut Hamsun
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It has been said that the myth is a public dream, dreams are private myths. Unfortunately we give our mythic side scant attention these days.…
— Mary Zimmerman
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It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it is divorced from…
— Anne Rice
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