Logic Quotes

Thought that accepts reality as given is no thought at all.

It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

It is obvious that [leftists] are not cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality.

We should start being intolerant to those who are intolerant to us. This is not modern logic, this is not extreme, this is common sense.

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.

Logic may indeed be unshakeable, but it cannot withstand a man who is determined to live.

In deep pain, people don't need logic, advice, encouragement, or even Scripture. They just need you to show up and shut up.

No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!

In logic, there are no morals.

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

Freed from the thoughts of winning, I instantly play better. I stop thinking, start feeling. My shots become a half-second quicker, my decisions become the product of instinct rather than logic.

Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.

The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic

The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and rise to a state of grace. Otherwise, religion is nothing but dead logic.

Think about how you will start and where you will go. Get the head with logic and the heart with visuals or stories. And think about your core customer and all the other stakeholders as well.

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel

...simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.

The days are gone when a country can issue orders to other peoples. Today, mankind needs culture, ideas and logic.

If the opponent offers keen play I don't object; but in such cases I get less satisfaction, even if I win, than from a game conducted according to all the rules of strategy with its ruthless logic.

A critic is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased, he hates all creative people equally.

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

The message I hope to have sent is just the example of being yourself. I tell this to my students: It's not about copying me or my logic systems. It's about allowing yourself to be yourself.

The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form.

The arena of logic was made by men for men; it was expressly founded on the exclusion of what is not male, as well as what is not Greek, not Christian, nor Western, not Aryan.

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought.

When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

The world is more than the sum of its suffering.

The less we have, the more we give. Seems absurd, but it's the logic of love.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

The truth is you never can leave home. You take it with you everywhere you go. It's under your skin. It moves the tongue or slows it, colors the thinking, impedes upon the logic.

This matter of two sides to every question is bad logic and bad practice: sometimes there are no sides; sometimes there are a hundred.

Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

If god wanted people to believe in him, why'd he invent logic then?

Life does not listen to your logic; it goes on its own way, undisturbed. You have to listen to life.