Illogical Quotes

• People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Love, Inspirational, Relationship

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• Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.

  H. L. Mencken

  Faith, Freedom, Believe

  Prejudices, Third Series ch. 14 (1922)

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• To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature.

  Marc Chagall

  Understanding Nature, Would Be, Fairy Tale

  Marc Chagall, Curt Valentin Gallery (New York), Curt Valentin Gallery (1952). “Marc Chagall, sculpture, ceramics, etchings for the fables of La Fontaine”

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• People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Honesty, Self, Years

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• May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, May, Emotion

  "Fictional character: Mr. Spock". "Star Trek" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1968.

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• I've never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Female, Answers, Mr Spock

  "Star Trek: This Side of Paradise". TV Series, www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Years, May, Self Centered

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• Where there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Violence, Emotion, Mr Spock

  "Fictional character: Mr. Spock". TV Series "Star Trek" ("Dagger of the Mind", 1966), www.imdb.com. 1966-1969.

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• Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?

  Margot Fonteyn

  Trying, Patterns, Return

  "Personal Quotes/ Biography". www.imdb.com.

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• When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty.

  Stevie Nicks

  Beautiful, Girl, Growing Up

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• One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap.

  Stella Adler

  Imagination, Acting, Way

  Howard Kissel, Stella Adler (2000). “Stella Adler - The Art of Acting: preface by Marlon Brando compiled & edited by Howard Kissel”, p.71, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspiration, Wrath, Needs

  "Fictional character: Spock". "Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan", www.imdb.com. 1982.

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• Yo, thats illogical I cant have it!

  Nick Jonas

  Cant

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• One day, I just thought, if you see a bird with a broken leg, you really have the urge to do something about it and help the bird, then at the same time you go to a restaurant and eat a chicken or something. It doesn't make any sense.

  Patrik Baboumian

  Sympathy, Compassion, Bodybuilding

  "Vegan strongman shoulders 550 kg — a record, perhaps — at vegetarian food fest" by Jessica Mcdiarmid, www.thestar.com. September 8, 2013.

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• Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

  Jason Schwartzman

  Mean, Logic, Plus

  "Jason Schwartzman isn't 'Bored' one bit". www.today.com. September 17, 2009.

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• Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity.

  Gerald Vann

  Depressing, Christianity, Aggressive

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• Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices.

  Sargent Shriver

  Prejudice, Racist, Irrational

  Sargent Shriver (1964). “Point of the lance”

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• Nothing is more consuming, or more illogical, than the desire for remembrance.

  Ellen Glasgow

  Remembrance, Desire, Consuming

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• The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.

  Henryk Skolimowski

  Men, Common Sense, Uprooting

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• Anyone with sincere religious beliefs cannot say that all religions are true. That is so illogical it is pathetic. All religion cannot be true because some of them are so diametrically opposed to each other.

  Josh McDowell

  Religious, Belief, Sincere

  "Interview: Josh McDowell, Dave Sterrett on Oprah's Spirituality". Interview with Michelle A. Vu, www.christianpost.com. January 26, 2010.

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• If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway.

  Mother Teresa

  Selfish, People, Self Centered

  Mother Teresa (1995). “A Simple Path-Open Market”

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• Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that.

  Mark Twain

  Religion, Atheism, Impossible

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• American advertisers rely on 'essentially illogical' approaches to determine their advertising budgets.

  Michael Schudson

  Advertising, Approach, Determine

  Michael Schudson (2013). “Advertising, The Uneasy Persuasion (RLE Advertising): Its Dubious Impact on American Society”, p.17, Routledge

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• Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical.

  Edgard Varese

  Musical, Alphabet, Poor

  Edgard Varèse lecture, edited by Chou Wen-Chung, published in: "391", Nr. 5. Translated by Louise Varèse; Quoted in: "Classic Essays on Twentieth-Century Music: A Continuing Symposium" (1996), June 17, 1917.

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• Certainly, the Bush Administration will rely in the first instance on its friends, since it would be both illogical and counterproductive to reward its adversaries.

  Richard V. Allen

  Would Be, Rewards, Firsts

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