Irrational Choice Quotes

Sunk costs? We pay too much attention to them.

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

Reason is the slave of passion.

The public is moved by mood more than logic, by instinct more than reason, and that is something that every politician must make use of or guard against

English Law: where there are two alternatives: one intelligent, one stupid; one attractive, one vulgar; one noble, one ape-like; one serious and sincere, one undignified and false; one far-sighted, one short; EVERYBODY will INVARIABLY choose the latter.

I practice what has come to be called behavioral economics.

I have always voted Labour and I always will. I have got to have one stupid, bovine part of me and that's the part that votes Labour.

The heart is forever making the head its fool.

The dumbest reason in the world to buy a stock is because it's going up.

I learned that most people buy based on emotion, not on a rational breakdown of the product or service.

Walk on air against your better judgement.

It's a completely irrational decision to drop out of school.

No matter what their profession, there's a certain category of men who let passion overcome reason as soon as a girl offers them her company. More often than not, they turn out to be losers.

Food is not rational. Food is culture, habit, craving and identity.

I'm a hopeless romantic. I buy things because I fall in love with them. I never buy anything just because it's valuable.

Quebec has no opinions, only emotions.

If you're fighting with emotion instead of structure... it's always going to be a mistake.

Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.

The most enduring battle is between head and heart; what would be efficient and logical is nearly always trumped by what is messy and illogical.

I believe in instinct, not reason. When reason is right, nine times out of ten it is impotent, and when it prevails, nine times out of ten it is wrong.

The fondness or indifference that the philosophers expressed for life was merely a preference inspired by their self-love, and will no more bear reasoning upon than the relish of the palate or the choice of colors.

I didn't want the life that made sense. Not if the chaos meant i could have Bella.

The head never rules the heart, but just becomes its partner in crime.

People vote with their hearts, not their heads.