Quotes of: Irrationality Keyword

One fall day in Boston, a tall mechanical engineering student named Joe entered the student union at Harvard University. He was all ambition and acne

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

Action is the activity of the rational soul, which abhors irrationality and must combat it or be corrupted by it. When it sees the irrationality of others, it must seek to correct it, and can do this either by teaching or engaging in public affairs i...

The Dream of Scipio

Great creativity is astonishingly, absurdly, rationally, irrationally powerful.

Andy Hobsbawm

...[D]ivision of labor, in my mind, is one of the dangers of work-based technology. Modern IT infrastructure allows us to break projects into very small, discrete parts and assign each person to do only one of the many parts. In so doing, companies r...

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

To summarize, using money to motivate people can be a double-edged sword. For tasks that require cognitive ability, low to moderate performance-based incentives can help. But when the incentive level is very high, it can command too much attention an...

The Upside of Irrationality: The Unexpected Benefits of Defying Logic at Work and at Home

Flowers make me irrationally happy.

Alexa Von Tobel

I think irrationality is one of the scariest things in the world.

Marcia Gay Harden

Irrationally held truths may be more harmful than reasoned errors.

Thomas Huxley

Whenever those immersed in the bureaucratic culture of the age try to think their way through to the moral foundations of what they are and what they do, they will discover suppressed Nietzschean premises. And consequently it is possible to predict w...

After Virtue: A Study in Moral Theory

The darkening of the world makes the irrationality of art rational: radically darkened art.

Aesthetic Theory

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Dan Ariely

If thou really believe in one God, irrationality is subset of thou logic.

Master of Stupidity

It is important to value intellect and discipline, of course, but it is also important to recognize the power of irrationality, enthusiasm and vast energy.

Kay Redfield Jamison

I love my early movies, but naturalism is an artist's early style. Now I want to deal with feelings, dreams, an acceptance of irrationality.

Irvin Kershner

To advocate irrationality is to advocate that which is destructive to human life.

Atheism: The Case Against God

Violence and irrationality were so long and thoroughly cultivated among the Irish, and so perfectly ingrained into their nature, that modern civilization has as yet been unable to extract the virus.

Thomas Mellon

Skepticism is the agent of reason against organized irrationalism--and is therefore one of the keys to human social and civic decency.

Stephen Jay Gould

Our truest response to the irrationality of the world is to paint or sing or write, for only in such response do we find truth.

Madeleine L'Engle

We must fight for the freedom of religion; because that is the only way we can stand against irrationality.

M.F. Moonzajer

I suppose if you look back to your early childhood you accept everything people tell you, and that includes a heavy dose of irrationality - you're told about tooth fairies and Father Christmas and things.

Richard Dawkins