illogical behavior Quotes

The majority of the stupid is invincible and guaranteed for all time. The terror of their tyranny, however, is alleviated by their lack of consistency.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

Illogical thinkers throw names and slurs around because they have no arguments with which to rebut their opponents. Rational people have to keep hammering their points home.

Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!

I went through a phase of eating dinner in the shower because I thought, 'Why don't we do that?' Then I realised, 'Because it doesn't make any sense.' It doesn't save any time, and you can't really get into a steak and baked potato when there's water pouring on you.

There is nothing Modern about doing dumb things for dumb reasons.

Drama starts where logic ends.

Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.

Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.

The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.

There is no accounting for human beings.

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people, is that you don’t have sufficient respect for the senseless. The senseless is the major factor in our lives. You have no chance if it is your enemy.

In a dream it's typical not to be rational.

Certain kinds of foolishness are such that a greater foolishness would be better.

Love didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities.

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

You don't take a dead cat to the vet. I mean you might, but why?

You cannot expect any rational thought from a religious man. He is like a rocking log in water.

Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

Men turn their faces to hell, and hope to get to heaven; why don't they walk into the horsepond, and hope to be dry?.