You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.
The fact that an opinion has been widely held is no evidence whatever that it is not utterly absurd.
There are some ideas so wrong that only a very intelligent person could believe in them.
Something about the topic of consciousness makes people, like the White Queen in Through The Looking Glass, believe six impossible things before breakfast.
Prejudices are what fools use for reason.
The folly of mistaking a paradox for a discovery, a metaphor for a proof, a torrent of verbiage for a spring of capital truths, and oneself for an oracle, is inborn in us.
When people move from one extreme set of views to embrace another equally batty picture of the world, they expect us to applaud their choice, as if the fact that they have rejected one form of nuttiness somehow validates the screwball views they hold now.
Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.
People in this world are not often logical.
Reasoning will never make a man correct an ill opinion, which by reasoning he never acquired
Stupidity really gets me going, when it's just plain stupid, obvious stupidity.
I've got a wallet, it's orange. In case I wanna buy a deer. That doesn't make any sense at all.
The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.
I like nonsense; it wakes up the brain cells.
He's suffering from Politicians' Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.
When any opinion leads to absurdity, it is certainly false; but it is not certain that an opinion is false because it is of dangerous consequence.
Sometimes I've believed as many as six impossible things before breakfast.
Trying to understand superstition rationally is like trying to pick up something made of wood by using a magnet.
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.
I have a different way of thinking. I think synergistically. I'm not linear in thinking, I'm not very logical.
There is no explaining anything by reasoning and so it is useless to reason.
He who refuses to do arithmetic is doomed to talk nonsense.
This world of the imagination is fancy-free and violently opposed to common sense.
I don't like spinach, and I'm glad I don't, because if I liked it I'd eat it, and I just hate it.
Unreason is now ascendant in the United States—in our schools, in our courts, and in each branch of the federal government.
