Lack of Reason Quotes

Stupidity is not what remains when intelligence is subtracted, it is an active mechanism with its own logic, its own dynamics, and a capacity for unbounded growth.

It has been very truly said that the mob has many heads, but no brains.

No wickedness proceeds on any grounds of reason.

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

Here comes the orator with his flood of words and his drop or reason.

What's interesting to 'Vikings' the series is that Horik is so blind in his greed and his desire for revenge that he can't hear reason, and he's probably so insecure about Ragnar that he won't take his advice. And straight up, honestly, if you ever have to say to someone, 'Hey, remember, I'm the king?' It's too late, and you've lost your authority.

When there are rational grounds for an opinion, people are content to set them forth and wait for them to operate. In such cases, people do not hold their opinions with passion; they hold them calmly, and set forth their reasons quietly. The opinions that are held with passion are always those for which no good ground exists; indeed the passion is the measure of the holder's lack of rational conviction.

Bipartisanship is not what is missing in Washington. Common sense is.

Superstition is the religion of feeble minds.

That's the way most everyone gets here. It's really quite simple: every time you decide something without having a good reason, you jump to Conclusions whether you like it or not. It's such an easy trip to make that I've been here hundreds of times.

Common sense is not all that common in Washington DC.

I'm sure it's very obvious . . . how upset I am with incompetence and the lack of common sense in life. If I can sum up the reason . . . it's that these characteristics are not benign. They are responsible for much, if not most, of the great problems, misery, and injustice in the world.

Stupidity has a knack of getting its way.

Many that are not mad have, sure, more lack of reason.

It is not a new thing for a thoroughly good and well-meaning preacher´s soft heart to run away with his soft head.

Superstition is the only religion of which base souls are capable of.

Vee never needed a reason to do something stupid. Sad thing was, most of the time I didn't either.

It is so much easier to be enthusiastic than to reason!

Unruly ambition is deaf, not only to the advice of friends, but to the counsels and monitions of reason itself.

There is no one so insufferable as a person who gives no other excuse for a peculiar action than saying he had been directed to it in a dream.

What keeps me up at night is our nation's continued and burgeoning lack of rationality in response to mass shootings.

Angry men are blind and foolish, for reason at such time takes flight and, in her absence; wrath plunders all the riches of the intellect, while the judgment remains the prisoner of its own pride.