Irrational Quotes

• People are irrational. What I want to do is let's take the irrational aspects out of it and let's just break this down. And you and I, let's go and see if we can't master this thing, a few steps at a time without giving up your day job, without having to give up your whole life.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • People
  • Giving
  • Break

• Man isn't a noble savage, he's an ignoble savage. He is irrational, brutal, weak, silly, unable to be objective about anything where his own interests are involved-that about sums it up. I'm interested in the brutal and violent nature of man because it's a true picture of him. And any attempt to create social institutions on a false view of the nature of man is probably doomed to failure.

  

  Stanley Kubrick
  • Interest
  • Silly
  • Weak

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

  

  Capers Jones
  • Influence
  • Software
  • Destructive

• The most basic inherent constraint is that neither time nor wisdom are free goods available in unlimited quantity. This means that in social processes, as in economic processes, it is not only impossible to attain perfection but irrational to seek perfection- or even to seek the best possible result in each separate instance.

  

  Thomas Sowell
  • Mean
  • Impossible
  • Social

• Behind every rational and irrational force in human society there is a social mechanism which determines where it is to appear and what forms it is to take.

  

  Karl Mannheim
  • Social
  • Behinds
  • Determine

• Hellenic science is a victory of rationalism, which appears greater, not smaller, when one is made to realize that it had been won in spite of the irrational beliefs of the Greek people; all in all, it was a triumph of reason in the face of unreason. Some knowledge of Greek superstitions is needed not only for a proper appreciation of that triumph but also for the justification of occasional failures, such as the many Platonic aberrations.

  

  George Sarton
  • Reason
  • Realizing
  • Appreciation

• I studied law before I became a filmmaker, and I actually have a great belief in the justice system and the rule of law. I think it's the thing that separates us from animals. I really believe in the rule of law because it's an attempt to bring rational accountability to human behavior, which has a great capability of becoming irrational.

  

  Nick Broomfield
  • Justice
  • Human
  • Accountability

• 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 Quigley
  • Actors
  • Process
  • Deals

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