Irrational Quotes

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.

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.

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

I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. 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.

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

It's the irrational things that interest me.

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

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

I think life's an irrational obsession.

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?

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

Having a child is surely the most beautifully irrational act that two people in love can commit.

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

Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion.