Jeff Sessions Quotes

People in this world are not often logical.

He's thinking more with his heart than with his brain.

To me, the worst thing is to just be knee-jerk and emotional.

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

Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

You never know how people are going to respond.

I don't see what's so triffic about creating people as people and then gettin' upset 'cos they act like people.

Fear or stupidity has always been the basis of most human actions.

It doesn't have the ability to think rationally this economic model. It thinks like a drug addict: 'Where can I get my next fix?' It doesn't learn wisely. Any kind of measure of natural wisdom would be: you make a mistake, you correct it the next time around. But a drug addict feels terrible... and then says: 'I want more'. Unfortunately we have an economic model that thinks like a crack addict.

You can never predict what little things in the way somebody looks or talks or acts will set off peculiar emotional reactions in other people.

Impulse without reason is enough, and reason without impulse is a poor makeshift.

...following Mrs. Roosevelt in search of irrationality was like following a burning fuse in search of an explosive.

There is something human about the way people react to and identify with suffering. There's a lot more empathy in the world than we perhaps realize.

People tend to set themselves up in patterns; something happens, it hurts them, then something similar happens, and - it's happened again! It seems much bigger then, and they get worried and go through life looking for that thing, and because they're so concerned and looking for it, when anything that happens resembles that thing, they're sure it's happening again. So sometimes people think things are repeating even when they're not.

People tolerate those they fear further than those they love.

I think the two things most opposed to good counsel are haste and passion; haste usaully goes hand in hand with folly, passion with coarseness and narrowness of mind.

Anger makes people stupid.

But try getting blindly carried away by your feelings, without reasoning, without a primary cause, driving consciousness away at least for a time; start hating, or fall in love, only so as not to sit with folded arms.

Man is not a rational animal, he is a rationalizing animal.

I've spent my whole life doing some things because they were logical and not doing others because they were not. I've seen what happens when people act on intuition, or for illogical reasons. Sometimes the results are ludicrous and embarrassing; more often they are simply horrible. But here I am, just the same, behaving like a crackbrained crystal gazer.

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.

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

In a lot of things I'm reacting to a lot of things. I'm reacting to a lot people around me. Sometimes not necessarily saying anything but I just have to be thinking it.

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

If lyrics make people do things, how come we don't love each other?