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Irrational beliefs are culturally accepted delusions. -- Robert Todd Carroll
PRONOIA: The irrational belief that people like you -- Jon Winokur
I think that a society cannot live without a certain number of irrational beliefs. They are protected from criticism and analysis because they are irrational. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.' -- Gretchen Rubin
Wherever and whenever a woman is harassed, abused and exploited there could be found a religion or some kind of irrational belief and suppression of reason among the minds of men or women who were responsible for the exploitation. -- Thiruman Archunan
I believe in equality. But I don't like the word feminist, because it's such a rational belief to think that women are equal to men, and I'm a rational person. You shouldn't be labeled for being reasonable. You should be labeled if you're f-cking crazy. -- Michael Che
The point is that religion puts a value on irrationality, which makes it the perfect tool for promoting irrational beliefs like misogyny. Other ideologies can be challenged with evidence and reason, but religion is allowed a pass by most people. And that's why it's especially dangerous. -- Amanda Marcotte
Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world. -- Albert Ellis
It is not to be forgotten that what we call rational grounds for our beliefs are often extremely irrational attempts to justify our instincts. -- Thomas Huxley
The great changes in civilisation and society have been wrought by deeply held beliefs and passion rather than by a process of rational deduction. -- Paul Keating
I think that there's a strain in journalism that believes that anyone who surrenders him- or herself to faith and to belief necessarily checks reason and rationality at the door. -- David Gregory
Skepticism is not a denial of belief, but rather a denial of rational grounds for belief. -- William Pepperell Montague
Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish. -- Alister E. McGrath
Crime fiction confirms our belief, despite some evidence to the contrary, that we live in a rational, comprehensible, and moral universe. -- P. D. James
only that which is deeply felt can change us. Rational arguments alone cannot penetrate the layers of fear and conditioning that comprise our crippling belief system. -- Marilyn Ferguson
What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish. -- Austin Farrer

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