Albert Einstein Quotes

People in this world are not often logical.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

… people are far from acting generally according to the dictates of their interests, but oftener in consequence of their passions, though it may even prove injurious to their interests.

When fear displaces reason, the result is often irrational hatred and division.

Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.

Who should know better than a cosmetician that human beings are less than rational creatures?

Mankind are governed more by their feelings than by reason. Events which excite those feelings will produce wonderful effects.

I sincerely wish ingratitude was not so natural to the human heart as it is.

That's the world we live in: when it comes to economics, people have emotions; it's not like chemistry or physics.

People vote based on emotion. Period.

Only the contemptible fear contempt.

You meet people, and you're like, 'I don't know how I feel about you,' and someone does something surprising that changes your mind. We're interesting creatures; we're nuanced, complicated and layered, and we make all sorts of choices.

Sometimes emotions are more important than rationality.

Sometimes knowing what's right isn't a rational decision, or even what works on paper. Sometimes leaving is the best course of action after all.

Among other things, you'll find that you're not the first one who was ever confused and frightened and even sickened by human behavior.

We are reassured almost as foolishly as we are alarmed; human nature is so constituted.

The human animal varies from class to class, culture to culture. In one way we are consistent: We are irrational.

My only fear is doing something contrary to human nature - the wrong thing, the wrong way, or at the wrong time.

Human action is governed largely by instinct and emotion.

You cannot act in love and act in fear at the same time. You must choose between them.

As a result of a general defect of nature, we are either more confident or more fearful of unusual and unknown things.

So she became impulsive, scared by her inaction into perpetual action. When the Eagle confronted her with the expulsion, maybe she blurted out Marya's name because it was the first that came to mind, because in that moment she didn't want to get expelled and she couldn't think past that moment. She was scared, sure. But more importantly, maybe she'd been scared of being paralyzed by fear again. ~Miles/Pudge on Alaska, pg 120-121

The emotions of man are stirred more quickly than man’s intelligence.

Thought is the organizing factor in man, intersected between the causal primary instincts and the resulting actions.

The cynic puts all human actions into two classes - openly bad and secretly bad.