quotes about Irrational
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How do we know when irrational exuberance has unduly escalated asset values?
-- Alan GreenspanSource : Remarks at American Enterprise Institute dinner, Washington, D.C., 5 Dec. 1996
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There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.
-- Albert Ellis -
If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.
-- Albert Ellis -
I am a reasonable and sane functionalist tempered by irrational frivolity.
-- Alexander Girard -
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In a free society, one does not have to deal with those who are irrational. One is free to avoid them.
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I see no reason to have my shirts ironed. It's irrational.
-- Barry Commoner -
There is nothing quite so gentle, deep, and irrational as running--and nothing quite so savage, so wild.
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When we approach history, we are dealing with a conglomeration of irrational continua. Those who deal with history by nonrational processes are the ones who make history, the actors in it.
-- Carroll QuigleySource : Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.
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People will assign irrational importance to almost anything in quotes on top of a pleasant image
-- Colin Fletcher -
Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.
-- Dan Ariely -
It's a completely irrational decision to drop out of school.
-- David Brooks -
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All great art contains an element of the irrational.
-- Edith SitwellSource : Edith Sitwell (Dame), Elizabeth Salter, Allanah Harper (1976). “Edith Sitwell: fire of the mind : an anthology”, Michael Joseph
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Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.
-- Eli Broad -
All that is real in human history becomes irrational in the process of time.
-- Friedrich EngelsSource : Friedrich Engels, Karl Marx (1941). “Ludwig Feuerbach & the Outcome of Classical German Philosophy”, p.11, International Publishers Co
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Sleep is the gateway to those nightly visitations of the irrational.
-- Gayle GreeneSource : Gayle Greene (2009). “Insomniac”, p.39, Univ of California Press
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Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.
-- Gunter GrassSource : New Statesman and Society interview, 1990.
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It's the irrational things that interest me.
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Fashion somehow, for me, is purely and happily irrational.
-- Hedi SlimaneSource : "Hedi Slimane: putting the flounce into fashion" by Viv Groskop, www.theguardian.com. October 6, 2012.
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I'm irrational about all things creative, and I'm always late!
-- Iggy Azalea -
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Only in the irrational and unknown direction can we come to wisdom again
-- Jack Parsons -
Irrational lenders come and go - mostly they go!
-- John G. Stumpf -
Markets can remain irrational longer than you can remain solvent.
-- John Maynard KeynesSource : Forbes v. 151, iss. 4, (p. 236), 1993.
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The irrational thoughts were the ones with the power to burn holes in your gut.
-- Keith Ablow -
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You need to go and find someone to teach you the rudiments of irrational discourse.
-- Larry Wall -
Advances are made by those with at least a touch of irrational confidence in what they can do.
-- Lillian Hellman -
It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.
-- Maurice Merleau-Ponty -
They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable.
-- Melissa de la Cruz -
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Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.
-- Orson Scott Card -
Nothing could be more irrational than the idea that something comes from nothing.
-- R. C. Sproul -
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.
-- Robert A. Heinlein -
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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.
-- Robert GilpinSource : Robert Gilpin (2016). “The Political Economy of International Relations”, p.37, Princeton University Press
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Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.
-- Robert Todd Carroll -
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
-- Sargent Shriver -
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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.
-- Shana Abe -
Poetry involves the mysteries of the irrational perceived through rational words.
-- Vladimir Nabokov -
The wind shifts like this: Like a human without illusions, Who still feels irrational things within her.
-- Wallace Stevens -
Building a company is basically taking all the irrational people you know... Putting them in one building and then living with them 12 hrs a day at least.
-- Keith Rabois -
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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.
-- Lars Peter Hansen -
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?
-- Brad StineSource : Brad Stine (2006). “Live from Middle America: Rants from a Red-State Comedian”, Hudson st Press
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Excessive or irrational schedules are probably the single most destructive influence in all of software
-- Capers JonesSource : Capers Jones (2008). “Applied Software Measurement: Global Analysis of Productivity and Quality”, p.403, McGraw Hill Professional
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Humans were eventually irrational creatures gifted with the power of rationality.
-- L.E. Modesitt Jr. -