Quotes About Irrational Behavior

#1. Animals never have recourse to law courts, because they have no will to love; but man, having reason, feels the need of justifying his irrational behavior when he does wrong.

Fulton J. Sheen

#2. If it were up to me, all boys would come with a label: Failure to take in small doses may result in irrational behavior, poor judgment, and estrangement from one's friends.

Laurie Faria Stolarz

#3. Humans are fundamentally irrational. They use what precious rationality they have justifying their irrational behavior. A

Rita Mae Brown

#4. A lot of irrational behavior would look more rational if you could see it in the context of your whole long life.

Ann Brashares

#5. He found insanity no excuse, however, for irrational behavior.

Brandon Sanderson

#6. I have been primarily interested in how and why ordinary people do unusual things, things that seem alien to their natures. Why do good people sometimes act evil? Why do smart people sometimes do dumb or irrational things?

Philip G. Zimbardo

#7. Rationalists are admirable beings, rationalism is a hideous monster when it claims for itself omnipotence. Attribution of omnipotence to reason is as bad a piece of idolatry as is worship of stock and stone believing it to be God.

Mahatma Gandhi

#8. The traits the word 'childish' addresses are seen so often in adults that we should abolish this age-discriminatory word when it comes to criticizing behavior associated with irresponsibility and irrational thinking.

Adora Svitak

#9. If it winds up earlier, you should have a movie picked out. This is assuming she isn't sending you the 'let's go back to my place' signals. In that case - "

"Don't go there, Bob. Let's just not go there.

Nora Roberts

#10. *jerk'jrk 1 an ex-wife or ex-husband who continually annoys you with stupid, irrational, and immature behavior 2 one whose values differ so dramatically from yours that you wonder how you will ever make it through your child's lifetime

Julie A., M.A. Ross

#11. The heart of worship is all about living a life yielded to God in every possible way.

Gangai Victor

#12. You can only hold on to something for so long and enjoy it just by yourself, what's the point? It's very selfish. For better or for worse, I feel like the point of all of this is to make someone feel something.

Frank Iero

#13. For me to rehearse with a children's orchestra a Mahler symphony was to really work. We had three or four weeks of rehearsal with the orchestra, every day eight or nine hours, putting the First together. I had been conducting Tchaikovsky a lot and Beethoven, but Mahler was different.

Gustavo Dudamel

#14. The mentality and behavior of drug addicts and alcoholics is wholly irrational until you understand that they are completely powerless over their addiction and unless they have structured help, they have no hope.

Russell Brand

#15. Being a celebrity can be dangerous. Nobody says 'no.'

Demi Lovato

#16. Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.'

Gretchen Rubin

#17. The blaze of reputation cannot be blown out, but it often dies in the socket; a very few names may be considered as perpetual lamps that shine unconsumed.

Samuel Johnson

#18. (Yes teenage boys who are fine always cry on their mothers' shoulders until they leave a snot trail.)

Jordan Sonnenblick

#19. Pay bad people with your goodness; fight their hatred with your kindness. Even if you do not achieve victory over other people, you will conquer yourself. - HENRI AMIEL

Leo Tolstoy

#20. We made connections between the monsters created by war and the monsters he created, the typical outcast that Whale was attracted to, and the monster in himself, that's inside all of us.

Bill Condon

#21. I cannot see myself as a wife. Ugly word.

Greta Garbo

#22. All things, even the deepest sorrow or the most profound happiness are all temporary. Hope is fuel for the soul, without hope, forward motion ceases.

Landon Parham

#23. I work in a very contained environment, usually.

Kate Bush

#24. Of course the United States and Russia have different interests. Nevertheless, both are strategic partners.

Valentina Matviyenko

#25. Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.

Morton Irving Seiden

#26. There is no shame in not knowing. The problem arises when irrational thought and attendant behavior fill the vacuum left by ignorance.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#27. For kids like me, being called childish can be a frequent occurrence. Every time we make irrational demands, exhibit irresponsible behavior, or display any other signs of being normal American citizens, we are called childish.

Adora Svitak

#28. To me, all human behavior is unpredictable and, considering man's frailty ... and ... the ramshackle universe he functions in, it's ... all irrational.

William Faulkner

#29. People with OCD including myself, realize that their seemingly uncontrollable behavior is irrational, but they feel unable to stop it.

Abhijit Naskar

#30. We must not demonstrate any arrogance, and we must refrain from any irrational or undemocratic behavior.

Chen Shui-bian