Irrational Quotes

377 quotes by 318 authors

Research â€“ and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation â€“ is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational. — Eli Broad
Every attempt to employ mathematical methods in the study of chemical questions must be considered profoundly irrational and contrary to the spirit of chemistry.... if… — Auguste Comte
In a way, both the U.S. media and those wacky rioters in the Afghan-Pakistani hinterlands are very similar, two highly parochial and monumentally self-absorbed tribes… — Mark Steyn
The Euro is a conquest of sovereignty. It gives us a margin of manoeuvre. Its a tool to help us master globalisation and help us… — Dominique Strauss-Kahn
But how do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values, which then become subject to unexpected and prolonged contractions as they have… — Alan Greenspan
Clearly, sustained low inflation implies less uncertainty about the future, and lower risk premiums imply higher prices of stocks and other earning assets. We can… — Alan Greenspan
Listen, I mean that from my knowledge of the world that I see around me, I think that it is much more likely that the… — Richard P. Feynman
The love song must be born into the realm of the irrational, absurd, the distracted, the melancholic, the obsessive, the insane for the love song… — Nick Cave
The man who is thus outside the confines of every value-combination, and has become the exclusive representative of an individual value, is metaphysically an outcast,… — Hermann Broch
Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand. — Gunter Grass
Faith is not a leap in the dark; itâ€™s the exact opposite. Itâ€™s a commitment based on evidenceâ€¦ It is irrational to reduce all faith… — John Lennox
Sleep is the gateway to those nightly visitations of the irrational. — Gayle Greene
A penny here, and a dollar there, placed at interest, goes on accumulating, and in this way the desired result is attained. It requires some… — P T Barnum
It would be unwise to condemn as irrational the practice of devouring the heart and liver of an adversary while yet warm. For the highest… — Aleister Crowley
We are all far less rational in our decision-making than standard economic theory assumes. Our irrational behaviors are neither random nor senseless: they are systematic… — Dan Ariely
People are irrational - and predictably so. — Dan Ariely
The primary problem is not to provide the public with the knowledge of how far it is to the nearest star and what genes are… — Richard Lewontin
Would a watermelon in the midst of a chase sequence not be, in its own organic way, emblematic of our entire misunderstood enterprise? At once… — W D Richter
It can be of no practical use to know that Pi is irrational, but if we can know, it surely would be intolerable not to… — Edward Charles Titchmarsh
I approach my character with the question: What would an animal think? How would an animal respond? A lot of times, it's quick action and… — Victoria Pratt

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