Irrational Thinking Quotes

You can't reason people out of beliefs they weren't reasoned into.

Emotions neither prove nor disprove facts. There was a time when any rational adult understood this. But years of dumbed-down education and emphasis on how people 'feel' have left too many people unable to see through this media gimmick.

There isn't anything so grotesque or so incredible that the average human being can't believe it.

The pendulum of the mind alternates between sense and nonsense, not between right and wrong.

If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

If a man is offered a fact which goes against his instincts, he will scrutinize it closely, and unless the evidence is overwhelming, he will refuse to believe it. If, on the other hand, he is offered something which affords a reason for acting in accordance with his instincts, he will accept it even on the slenderest evidence. The origin of myths is explained in this way.

Religion is violent, irrational, intolerant, allied to racism and tribalism and bigotry, invested in ignorance and hostile to free inquiry, contemptuous of women, and coercive toward children.

College professors are suspect because whenever emotion is in control, anti-intellectualism prevails.

When you are insane, you are busy being insane - all the time.

Rationalization is a process of not perceiving reality, but of attempting to make reality fit one’s emotions.

It's amazing where the paranoid mind can take you.

The human mind has an infinite capacity for self-deception.

Astrology is a sickness, not a science ... It is a tree under the shade of which all sorts of superstitions thrive.

You should never argue with a crazy mind, you ought to know my now.

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.

I'm a nut case, but that is what I believe.

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

A delusion is something that people believe in despite a total lack of evidence.

If superstition enters, the brain is gone.

… the ravings of a maniac

When emotion supersedes reason ... gullibility must follow.

If I would have thought like fans think, I'd be broke and brain dead and fighting everybody every weekend.

Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.