Top 100 Quotes About Illogical
#1. We want to believe. Young students try to believe in older authors, constituents try to believe in their Congressmen, countries try to believe in their statesmen, but they can't. Too many voices, too much scattered, illogical ill-considered criticism.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#2. Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.
Vernon Howard
#3. Man is a deeply illogical being, and must be ruled illogically. Whatever that frigid prig Bentham may say, there are innumerable motives that have nothing to do with utility.
Patrick O'Brian
#4. Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.
Mark Twain
#5. The claim that some races were innately superior to others was later championed by Hitler, and so if Hitler was a nativist, then all nativists were Nazis. (That conclusion is illogical, but it makes sense emotionally if you dislike nativism.)13 The
Jonathan Haidt
#6. There's some illogical part of me that still believes if you want Superman to show up, first there's got to be someone worth saving.
Jodi Picoult
#7. Feminists amuse me more than illusionists. They are the only type of people that can make an illogical argument seem even more illogical with paintings of delusions.
Lionel Suggs
#8. Some people talk about illogical things like love.. But then they can rationally sacrifice their relatives. - Sebastian Michaelis
Yana Toboso
#9. Just to prove that even the silliest idea can be pursued to its illogical conclusion, Legal Realism spawned Critical Legal Studies.
Alex Kozinski
#10. Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.
Marilyn Vos Savant
#11. It is then possible to say that rebellion, when it develops into destruction, is illogical. Claiming the unity
of the human condition, it is a force of life, not of death. Its most profound logic is not the logic of
destruction; it is the logic of creation.
Albert Camus
#12. The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.
Antonya Nelson
#13. I get so disenfranchised reading the news, because global borders and lines we've created are completely unnecessary. That's just another person on the other side, and it's his bad luck that he was born there and it's my good fortune that I was born here. It's all kind of illogical.
Eddie Huang
#14. As Socrates so philosophically put it, since we don't know what death is, it is illogical to fear it.
Tom Stoppard
#15. She pictured her Alzheimer's as a demon in her head, tearing a reckless and illogical path of destruction, ripping apart the wiring from "Lydia now" to "Lydia then
Lisa Genova
#16. I knew I couldn't trust my illogical heart, and that meant I had to do everything in my power to stay away from him so I wouldn't have to.
Catherine Doyle
#17. All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional.
T.I.
#18. Love is illogical, love had consequences
I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it.
Marie Lu
#19. But as often is the case with short people - he never grew past five foot three - once he made up his mind about something, no matter how trivial it might be, he never backed down. And he was bothered by illogical rules and by teachers who couldn't meet his exacting
Haruki Murakami
#20. As for romance, Frank had dated a few women over the years but found them to be too inconsistent and illogical, so he dated a few men and found them to be even more random and frightening.
Sherman Alexie
#21. In this world there are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we must just let stand. The mystery is more important than any possible explanation.
Bryce Courtenay
#22. Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy.
Aron Nimzowitsch
#23. So what you're saying is you can't explain it."
"I did explain it."
"No, you used nouns and verbs together in a pleasing but illogical format.
Maggie Stiefvater
#24. If I go out into nature, into the unknown, to the fringes of knowledge, everything seems mixed up and contradictory, illogical, and incoherent. This is what research does; it smooths out contradictions and makes things simple, logical, and coherent.
Albert Szent-Gyorgyi
#25. We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity.
Che Guevara
#26. During dreaming, we're tuned inward, we experience vivid visual imagery, our conventional logic system is turned down, and social norms are loosened, all of which can lead to making more creative associations than we make when we're awake and our brain is censoring the illogical," she says.
Andrea Rock
#27. I think fiction, for me, is a way of trying to understand why people do the things they do - and trying to explain what is, at heart, illogical.
Tess Gerritsen
#28. History is an illogical record. It hinges on nothing. It is a story that changes, and has accidents, and recovers with scars.
Gretel Ehrlich
#29. Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
Sargent Shriver
#30. If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.
Rumi
#31. All this teaching that repentance does not matter, and that it does not matter whether you have a sense of sin, and whether you realize your need of forgiveness, and that all you have to do is to 'Come to Jesus as you are' is utterly unscriptural. Indeed it is illogical.
Martin Lloyd-Jones
#32. Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.
Ellen Glasgow
#33. Schizophrenia: A psychotic disorderncharacterized by withdrawal from reality, illogical patterns of thinking, delusions, and hallucinations. See also: Nightmare.
Holly Schindler
#34. We create our destiny by dreaming bigger than most people would think reasonable, by believing in ourselves more than most people would think sensible, by making decisions that most people would think illogical and continuing to act way beyond the point that most people would have given up.
Andrew Jobling
#35. Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?
E. M. Forster
#36. I was so tired of his being even-keeled in the face of all that was upsetting and ugly and illogical.
Sara Novic
#38. I've always felt I had to do things because they were expected of me, or more important, to make people like me. The hell with it! I think from now on I'm going to just be me - rich or poor, good or bad, rational or irrational, logical or illogical, famous or infamous.
Carl R. Rogers
#39. Unconditional love is an illogical notion, but such a great and powerful one.
A. J. Jacobs
#40. Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays.
Francis Ford Coppola
#41. Sin always overpromises and underdelivers, while righteousness pays dividends for eternity...
Nothing is more illogical than sin. It's the epitome of poor judgment. It's temporary insanity with eternal consequences. And we have no alibi, save the cross of Jesus Christ.
Mark Batterson
#42. Borrowing from cultures without understanding the fundamentals can yield some pretty weird and wholly illogical perversions.
Tim Gunn
#43. In the battle between the sexes, men and women will go practically to the end of the earth in illogical, irrational ways to give each other pain.
Karen DeCrow
#44. There is nothing more dangerous or more plentiful in all the world than unreasonable men of greed that preach an intolerant ideology and are full of a self-esteeming and illogical moral creed.
Tonny K. Brown
#45. But my problem with fantasy, and horror, and related genres, is that sometimes the problems are illogical.
Octavia Butler
#46. Extreme heroism springs from something that no scientific theory can fully explain; it's an illogical impulse that flies in the face of biology, psychology, actuarial statistics, and basic common sense.
Christopher McDougall
#47. The brain becomes illogical, in the throes of new romance.
Abhijit Naskar
#48. We live in an illogical word, which is driven by reason and cannot be combated with emotion.
Kate Wars
#49. It's a wholly illogical but nonetheless powerful belief that things will change for the better in a new place; that the urge to self-destruct will magically disappear.
Stephen King
#50. It is illogical to expect smiles from others if one does not smile oneself. Therefore, one can see that many things depend on one's own behaviour.
Dalai Lama XIV
#51. Only the illogical has any chance of being true.
Marty Rubin
#52. The notion that we systematically adopt false beliefs to "protect the self" is illogical when you consider that whatever the mind is designed to do, it must be to get things done, not to make us happy.
Robert Kurzban
#53. I refused to believe that someone who had a voice that angelic could be bad. I knew it was illogical to think that way, but I had to believe in something good.
Amanda Giasson
#54. A situation in which a desired outcome or solution is impossible to attain because of a set of inherently illogical rules or conditions.
Joseph Heller
#55. We are raised in a society where we are taught to believe a more logical reason for an illogical happening rather than the illogical reason for something which may be of the unknown, hence, why the logical answer is illogical to the logical person.
Nicholas A. McGirr
#56. It is very difficult to logically explain the illogical.
Haruki Murakami
#57. most holders of authority were bigoted, illogical and not to be taken seriously. I
Bertrand Russell
#59. You know your fear is both false and illogical, but you fear it anyway.
Anne Gracie
#60. Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things.
Benedict Cumberbatch
#61. Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless.
Gerhard Richter
#62. Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.
Gerald Vann
#63. Creole women take after Europe in their intelligence, after the Tropics in the illogical violence of their passions, and after the Indies in the apathetic indolence with which they commit or suffer good and evil.
Honore De Balzac
#64. People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others.
Marisha Pessl
#65. Faith is not logical. But it isn't illogical either. Faith is theological. It does not ignore reality; it just adds God into the equation.
Mark Batterson
#66. People are illogical, unreasonable, and self-centered.
Love them anyway.
Kent M. Keith
#67. Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.
Richard V. Allen
#68. Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical
Mark Batterson
#69. To the human mind there is something almost illogical in the assertion that God became a man. It is like speaking about a square circle. Yet this is what Christmas says - and we take refuge from our bewilderment not in explanation but in adoration.
Ralph P. Martin
#70. I was suddenly angry. I wanted to shake not just Lydia but the whole world of people who do not understand the difference between control of emotion and lack of it, and who make a totally illogical connection between inability to read others' emotions and inability to experience their own.
Graeme Simsion
#71. Love is illogical. You fall into it like a manhole. Then you're just stuck. You die in love more than you live in love.
Tarryn Fisher
#72. ...it is entirely illogical to consider biology in dichotomous terms of genes and environment - all of biology is based on the continuous interaction of both.
Peter Gluckman
#73. The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.
Oscar W. Firkins
#74. Most people I meet assume that Christian means very conservative, entrenched in their thinking, antigay, antichoice, angry, violent, illogical, empire builders; they want to convert everyone, and they generally cannot live peacefully with anyone who doesn't believe what they believe.
Philip Yancey
#75. Clearly you do not understand the innate intricacies and often illogical drives of an A freak.
Darynda Jones
#76. The English language was a delight to them, so illogical and fertile and well-suited to their natural desire to confuse, obfuscate, and generally side-step clear meaning whenever possible.
John Varley
#77. They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they want to be reassured by your telling them what they want to believe. Then they're quite happy again for a bit.
Agatha Christie
#78. Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.
Ben Carson
#79. Pondering how illogical logical thinking can be if a big enough committee is doing it.
Terry Pratchett
#80. One never wants to do anything that's going to break that 'sculpture of the character' that's been done so far, or make anything that's been done so far become illogical in any way, so you always want to try to connect when you're doing a series of films that has a continuous character.
Tobin Bell
#81. People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.
Mother Teresa
#82. Although many of us fear death, I think there is something illogical about it.
Richard Dawkins
#83. Never underestimate the human capacity for stupid, illogical, and petty behaviour.
Raymond E. Feist
#84. You did too! your eyes begged me, and you can't deny it. You couldn't see your eyes , so you have no idea what they were doing"
A Protracted pause. Then, quite calmly, he said "I think thats the most illogical arguement i've ever heard".
Gena Showalter
#85. Many farcical, illogical, incomprehensible transactions are subsumed by the mania of lust.
Philip Roth
#87. Not the "be yourself" line. I loathe that line. As if Myself and Tic have met before and gotten along, so all I have to do is make sure Myself is there this time. So illogical.
Kasie West
#88. It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man.
Chester Himes
#89. Ultraconservatism is, to me, so illogical. Everywhere you go, conservatives want to cut, cut, cut, cut - cut money for powerless people. So, that's the biggest problem I have with them.
Alec Baldwin
#90. It used to be said that God could create anything except what would be contrary to the laws of logic. The truth is that we could not say what an "illogical" world would look like.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#92. We live in an illogical world, driven by reason, which cannot be combated with emotion.
Christine Edwards
#93. I was beginning to understand how the Irish mentality worked. The more foolish, illogical or surreal one's actions were perceived t be (and mine surely fell into one of these categories), the wider the arms of hospitality were opened in salutation.
Tony Hawks
#94. I have an illogical affinity for 'Star Trek: The Next Generation.'
John Joseph Adams
#95. Maybe we don't ever feel that sweetly untainted and wholly majestic kind of love that takes every longing captive because we are hopelessly entangled in the illogical fear that despite all of love's grand goodness, it might not be good enough to keep us safe.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
#97. Logic is illogical, madness is seeing the truth for what it is, which is sanity. therefore I am the most illogical sane person you will ever meet. ;)
Shannon Neprily
#98. Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?
Jason Schwartzman
#99. When everybody worships all sort of religious lies and illogical myths, dare to be there, in the land of reason!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#100. Kafkaesque
The term's meaning has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical.
Franz Kafka
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