Irrational Quotes - Page 2

My position is that we should not succumb to irrational belief.

What good your beautiful proof on the transcendence of Pi: Why investigate such problems, given that irrational numbers do not even exist?

We should have to abandon our vested illusions, our irrational religions and patriotisms.

Power on the one side, fear on the other, are always the buttresses on which irrational authority is built.

An engineer cannot participate in irrationality.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

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.

Religion is an irrational construct.

The soul may not be destroyed. The soul goes on forever. Like the number pi, it is without cessation or conclusion. Like pi it is a constant. Pi is an irrational number, incapable of being made into a fraction, impossible to divide from itself. So, too, the soul is an irrational, indivisible equation that perfectly expresses one thing: you.

Research – and using what you learn from it to analyze every situation – is what separates being unreasonable from being irrational.

Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions.

They did it for love, and sometimes love makes us do the irrational .. even the inexcusable.

The ... irrational fear of communism is being deliberately used in many quarters to blind us to our real problems.

Art is so wonderfully irrational, exuberantly pointless, but necessary all the same. Pointless and yet necessary, that's hard for a puritan to understand.

The transfinite numbers are in a sense the new irrationalities [ ... they] stand or fall with the finite irrational numbers.

Sleep is the gateway to those nightly visitations of the irrational.

People are irrational - and predictably so.

-But rational thoughts lead only to rational thoughts, whereas irrational thoughts lead to new experiences.

An exotic and irrational entertainment, which has been always combated, and always has prevailed.

It is the mission of the twentieth century to elucidate the irrational.

The irrational in the human has something about it altogether repulsive and terrible, as we see in the maniac, the miser, the drunkard or the ape.

I chose the name Pi because it's an irrational number (one with no discernable pattern). Yet scientists use this irrational number to come to a "rational" understanding of the universe. To me, religion is a bit like that, "irrational" yet with it we come together we come to a sound understanding of the universe.

I am bundle of nerves riddled with irrational fears.

Irrational judgements lead to new experience.

In the '90s it was irrational exuberance. Now it may be irrational doom and gloom.