Predictably Irrational Quotes

#1. our irrationality happens the same way, again and again. Whether we are acting as consumers, businesspeople, or policy makers, understanding how we are predictably irrational provides a starting point for improving our decision making and changing the way we live for the better.

Dan Ariely

#2. Dan Ariely, author of Predictably Irrational, a book that offers an entertaining and engaging overview of behavioral economics.

Daniel H. Pink

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

Dan Ariely

#4. If people do things for lunk-headed, backward-looking reasons, why wouldn't we also do things for significance-seeking, self-actualizing reasons? If we are predictably irrational - and we clearly are- why couldn't we also be predictably transcendent?

Daniel H. Pink

#5. Jesus claimed He had the power to raise himself from the dead and His followers would be raised from the dead. That's a unique claim in the literature of religion.

Josh McDowell

#6. I don't want to be cross, love cannot be forced. There were tears in her eyes as she left the room.

Anne Frank

#7. Let those who smile at me, ask themselves whether they have been indebted most to imagination or reality for all they have enjoyed in life, if indeed they have ever enjoyed any thing.

Charles Robert Maturin

#8. Neither Elizabeth or I are keen to do a real-life couple on the screen. It's not very electric.

Hugh Grant

#9. There was probably something as a child I wanted to express, something unsaid that I needed to share.

Juliette Binoche

#10. People are irrational - and predictably so.

Dan Ariely

#11. For me photography had an immediacy ... I was trying to resolve certain issues. What was fair or unfair about how people lived, and how they had to live? I thought the most penetrating and most immediate way to get to some of those questions was through photography.

Jerome Liebling

#12. I rather stumbled into philosophy. When I began my undergraduate career at Cambridge, I studied mathematics.

Philip Kitcher