Irrational Quotes

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

It's the irrational things that interest me.

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

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.

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

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?

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

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