Best 109 quotes in «irrational quotes» category

Beware: Ignorance Protects itself. Ignorance Promotes suspicion. Suspicion Engenders fear. Fear quails, Irrational and blind, Or fear looms, Defiant and closed. Blind, closed, Suspicious, afraid, Ignorance Protects itself, And protected, Ignorance grows.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software

I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.

I am a superior form of human and I have absolutely no quirks or irrational impulses of any kind.

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

Dare to be irrational! - keep free from formulas, open to any fresh impulse, fluid.

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

If the world is irrational, we can never know it -- either it or its irrationality.

How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

I often worry that my idea of personhood is nostalgic, irrational, inaccurate.

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.

I think life's an irrational obsession.

If one's patriotism is merely instinctive it is irrational and irresponsible, and consequently a danger to one's country.

Irrational judgements lead to new experience.

I still had an irrational desire to do an interpretive dance about rainbows, but it was a small price to pay for being healed.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

Love is irrational, I reminded myself. The more you loved someone, the less sense anything made.

My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.

Of the irrational part of the soul again one division appears to be common to all living things, and of a vegetative nature.

Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

Symptoms, those you believe you recognize, seem to you irrational because you take them in an isolated manner, and you want to interpret them directly.

The core of the Marxist critique of capitalism is that although the individual capitalist is rational (as liberals assume), the capitalist system itself is irrational.

It is sometimes rational to do what is wrong, and sometimes irrational to do what is right

Most illogical Irrational nature of our womanhood, That blushes one way, feels another way, And prays, perhaps another!

Neither life nor happiness can be achieved by the pursuit of irrational whims.

People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

Since all life is futility, then the decision to exist must be the most irrational of all.

Sleep is the gateway to those nightly visitations of the irrational.

The irrational haunts the metaphysical.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

The great snare of thought is uncritical acceptance of irrational assumptions.

The more irrational of us are worried about the millennium ending - as if a date would really matter.

There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.

Through humour, we see in what seems rational, the irrational; in what seems important, the unimportant

To hope for a true change of human life without a change of human nature is an irrational and unspiritual proposition.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

To the rational being only the irrational is unendurable, but the rational is endurable.

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

We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

When you're in the throes of this romantic love, it's overwhelming - you're out of control, you're irrational, you're going to the gym at 6 A.M. every day - Why? Because she's there.

Who is more irrational, the guy who believes in a God he can't see, or a guy who's offended by a God he doesn't believe in?

When people change their irrational beliefs to undogmatic flexible preferences, they become less disturbed.

Earthquake means destruction; dictator means destruction! In the case of earthquake, you need a strong building; in the case of dictator, you need an educated rational mind, because an irrational ignorant mind always serves the dictator!