#irrational

By the way, the point between rationality and what we would call the irrational is a very difficult point to establish. There's no specific line, as you know. ↗

— Leo Ornstein

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I think life's an irrational obsession. ↗

— Sean Penn

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I have thought sometimes that the sanest people, the people who are just very balanced, very happy, are probably lower achieving than other people. My kind of irrationality happens to be fear or anxiety. ↗

— Jon Ronson

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You could argue that war is always an irrational act, and yet many states enter into military conflict out of rational calculation or national interest or the stability or longevity of their regime. ↗

— William Kirby

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You have to think an awful lot about your motivations or people's behavioral intentions or what their body language can indicate or what's really going on or what makes people sometimes do, sometimes, the irrational things they do. ↗

— Ron Silver

#awful #behavioral #body #body language #going

Most of the time common stocks are subject to irrational and excessive price fluctuations in both directions as the consequence of the ingrained tendency of most people to speculate or gamble... to give way to hope, fear and greed. ↗

— Benjamin Graham

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Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs. This is the principle behind lotteries, dating, and religion. ↗

— Scott Adams

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Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

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It is even possible that laws which have not their origin in the mind may be irrational, and we can never succeed in formulating them. ↗

— Arthur Eddington

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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 Zimbardo

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