Sentence examples for doing irrational from inspiring English sources

"There is plenty of dysrationalia – people doing irrational things despite more than adequate intelligence – in our world today," he says.

Two-hundred hyper-educated people sitting in a room doing irrational, loony rituals.

"Sometimes motorists do irrational things".

Such money makes rational men do irrational things.

But even rational people occasionally do irrational things.

It spreads, they suggest, like a virus, except that the "viruses" are similar to those infecting computers bits of cultural software that take over the hardware of the brain and make it do irrational things.Corey Fincher, of the University of New Mexico, has a different hypothesis for the origin of religious diversity.

"Fear and greed drive us to do irrational things, but a lot of it is subconscious.

When your competition does irrational things to grow fueled by low-cost capital it makes it harder for you to compete by playing by the conventional rules.

"Now, as a result, people are scared and liable to do irrational things".

And we do irrational things and we think irrationally and we feel irrationally.

For instance, as he posits in a mind-expanding conjecture, "Women, when driven by rage or jealousy, are willing to do irrational things, willing to throw their standards and self-respect out the window to prove a greater point".