Irrational Quotes

377 quotes by 318 authors

When I photograph, I try to use my instincts as much as possible. It is when pictures are unconsidered and irrational that they come to… — Jacob Aue Sobol
Forced to define 'irrational subconscious,' I would say that it is a small padded room inside all of us, where the only furnishing is a… — Stephen King
I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity. — Alexander Girard
To crush, to annihilate a man utterly, to inflict on him the most terrible of punishments so that the most ferocious murderer would shudder at… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another! — Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Itâ€™s right to say that people fall in love. We donâ€™t glide, slip, or stumble into it. Instead we tumble head first from the moment… — Martin Pistorius
For if the proper study of mankind is man, it is evidently more sensible to occupy yourself with the coherent, substantial and significant creatures of… — W. Somerset Maugham
The family is an early expedient and in many ways irrational. If the race had developed a special sexless class to be nurses, pedagogues, and… — George Santayana
A woman is sometimes fugitive, irrational, indeterminable, illogical and contradictory. A great deal of forbearance ought to be shown her, and a good deal of… — Henri Frederic Amiel
Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification. — Morton Irving Seiden
It is clear that all verbal structures with meaning are verbal imitations of that elusive psychological and physiological process known as thought, a process stumbling… — Northrop Frye
I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's… — Samantha Morton
Once we perceive that it is Judaism which is the root cause of antisemitism, otherwise irrational or inexplicable aspects of antisemitism become rationally explicable...Only something… — Dennis Prager
Anthropocentrism is simply irrational. And yet this is the thrust of much of our traditional religious thought and teaching, particularly in the West. — Russell E. Train
This 'oh let's hug it out' without taking any responsibility is exactly the problem. ... We are not silly irrational little girls. We are running… — Sarah Lacy
An exotic and irrational entertainment. — Samuel Johnson
I have irrational fears, and they all go back to losing my father as a kid. I've never gotten over it. — Tim Allen
In this acausal world, scientists are helpless. Their predictions become postdictions- Their equations become justifications, their logic, illogic. Scientists turn reckless and mutter like gamblers… — Alan Lightman
It's the irrational things that interest me. — Harrison Birtwistle
I still believe that any country understands that if they use nuclear weapons, they will be wiped out of existence. They could be irrational in… — Mohamed ElBaradei

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