Be Irrational Quotes

Even though most people were disconnected from [travel ban], the moment amplified a fairly massive and somewhat irrational fear that exists in the populace at large.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

We accept that people are irrational for good Darwinian reasons. But I don't think we should be so pessimistic as to think that therefore we're forever condemned to be irrational.

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.

I believe our concept of romantic love is irrational, impossible to fulfill and the cause of many broken homes. No human being can maintain that rarefied atmosphere of 'true love'.

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

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.

Though philosophers like to define poetry as irrational fancy, for us it is practical, humorous, reasonable way of being ourselves.

Distortions control my self-image, like they do for a lot of us. It's irrational.

I think anybody who has been abused as a kid - and I was abused as a kid, by various people - will say it's irrational because violence is irrational.

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

What I'm saying is that I'm trying to find rational reasons to explain irrational feelings, and that's neveer a good sign.

I know that the dream mind is irrational, but I like to think that if I hear something in a dream that's really good, then it's irrational... but it's not crazy.

God has given us the fascination and mystery of irrational numbers, as one aspect of a rich world

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 totally logical and perfectly irrational?

The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.

Dare to learn. Dare to think. Dare to be irrational.

Nightmares are seldom a foreshadowing of real events, but always a showing of real fears.

Black(people) hold onto their God just as the drunken man holds on to the street lamp post—for physical support only.

The less he understands something, the more firmly he believes in it.

The paralyzing fear of being lost is fed solely by the irrational fear that we will never be found.

Don't be in temper, to leave so quickly, that I may be dying. But all too soon, the leaves and debris will gather elsewhere.

A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity.

When you are irrationally irrational you may find that life is magical.

I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.

The mind was rarely a rational thing when it came to the dark or the unknown.

If you're rational you don't get to believe whatever you want to believe.

Every irrational and unscientific belief will ruin your life! Your own wrong belief will be your own tragic punishment!

We should be agnostic about those things for which there is no evidence. We should not hold beliefs merely because they gratify our desires for afterlife, immortality, heaven, hell, etc.

Remember, the village idiot was the spiritual man who built the ark and saved his family. Keep being you and never give up marching to the beat of your own drum!

I can't prove it yet know it when I seem it.

Irrationality is the exclusive preserve of humans as among all creatures only we have the power to rationalise, that being the art of packaging patently irrational as apparently rational.

The most important thing to remember about confronting an irrational person is that they are usually attributing an inaccurate meaning to a situation causing them to react irrationally.

Think about the precedents you are setting. It's the Left that runs the world on reckless emotionalism. Don't join.