Irrational Quotes

The poetry of a people comes from the deep recesses of the unconscious, the irrational and the collective body of our ancestral memories.

Nothing is perfect. Life is messy. Relationships are complex. Outcomes are uncertain. People are irrational.

When I was old enough to realize all meat was killed, I saw it as an irrational way of using our power, to take a weaker thing and mutilate it. It was like the way bullies would take control of younger kids in the schoolyard.

Bin Laden does reprehensible activities, and we should surely take care of that by killing him as soon as we can. But he's not an irrational man. He's a very worthy enemy. He's an enemy to worry about.

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.

It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts.

Great art is as irrational as great music. It is mad with its own loveliness.

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 many ways, but I don't think they're irrational to the point that they're ready to annihilate their own country.

Nine-tenths of tactics are certain, and taught in books: but the irrational tenth is like the kingfisher flashing across the pool, and that is the test of generals.

You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do.

As repressed sadists are supposed to become policemen or butchers so those with an irrational fear of life become publishers.

We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

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

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 no fear, and sometimes it's irrational fear. You don't always know.

Superstition is foolish, childish, primitive and irrational - but how much does it cost you to knock on wood?

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

It's the irrational things that interest me.

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

What lingers from the parent's individual past, unresolved or incomplete, often becomes part of her or his irrational parenting.

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

I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

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

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

It is by no means an irrational fancy that, in a future existence, we shall look upon what we think our present existence, as a dream.

I think it would be very foolish not to take the irrational seriously.

You're an actor, are you? Well, all that means is: you are irresponsible, irrational, romantic, and incapable of handling an adult emotion or a universal concept without first reducing it to something personal, material, sensational - and probably sexual!

To criticize a person for their race is manifestly irrational and ridiculous, but to criticize their religion, that is a right. That is a freedom.

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

You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime.

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.