Irrational Quotes

Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again

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

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

Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.

All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.

Resolved, never to suffer the least motions of anger to irrational beings.

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?

All great art contains an element of the irrational.

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

Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.

Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.

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

Grace is the offer of God's ceaseless presence and irrational love that cannot be stopped.

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

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

I think life's an irrational obsession.

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

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

Addicts are ALWAYS irrational when it comes to their habits.

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

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

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

Its very variety, subtlety, and utterly irrational, idiomatic complexity makes it possible to say things in English which simply cannot be said in any other language.

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

People are irrational - and predictably so.

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

Religion is an irrational construct.

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

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

They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable.

An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.

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.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

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

Science can never grapple with the irrational. That is why it has no future before it, in this world.

Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go!

Irrational judgements lead to new experience.

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

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

If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesnt get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.

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

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

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

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

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.

I hope I haven't given you the impression that I consider kissing intrinsically irrational.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.

In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.

I didn't ask you to catch me!" "You're so delightful when you're irrational. Of course I'm going to catch you." He slid a hand behind her nape and kissed her again. "It's what I do.