“[They are] social pariahs, irrationally ostracized by their communities because of medically baseless fears of contagion.”
Stewart Oneglia
“Believe that it can be done. Connect with a source of courage, strength and hope that will give you the power to do it. Share your dream only with those who believe in you, believe in your dream, and will lovingly tell you the truth. Avoid negative people who tell you it can't be done because they can discourage you and hold you back. A good plan is made in a moment of rational confidence to be used in a moment of irrational fear and doubt.”
Terence T. Gorski
“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
“A life based on reason will always require to be balanced by an occasional bout of violent and irrational emotion, for instinctual drives must be satisfied”
Cyril Connolly
“Nothing defines humans better than their willingness to do irrational things in the pursuit of phenomenally unlikely payoffs”
“Human beings are the only creatures who are able to behave irrationally in the name of reason.”
Ashley Montagu
“The rational mind of man is a shallow thing, a shore upon a continent of the irrational, wherein thin colonies of reason have settled amid a savage world.”
Wilford O. Cross
