Best 923 quotes in «logic quotes» category

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

I'm fascinated by the logic that leads to something.

I'm increasingly on the side of thinkers like David Graeber who are talking back to this notion of totality and emphasizing how there are all kinds of moments in our daily lives that break - or at least could break - from the logic of profit and the modes of domination it entails. Zones of freedom, even if it's never pure.

I'm impervious to logic.

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

Impulse is, after all, the best linguist; its logic, if not conformable to Aristotle, cannot fail to be most convincing.

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

In my experience most mathematicians are intellectually lazy.

Inferences of Science and Common Sense differ from those of deductive logic and mathematics in a very important respect, namely, when the premises are true and the reasoning correct, the conclusion is only probable.

In logic, there are no morals.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

In some far-off distant time, when the twentieth century history of primitive computing is just a murky memory, someone is likely to suppose that devices known as logic gates were named after the famous co-founder of Microsoft Corporation

I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both perfectly normal and crazy.

Intuition is more important to discovery than logic.

"I see it, but I don't believe it.

It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.

I think I think, therefore I think I am.

I think that women are wonderful but I've never met one yet who didn't show more feeling than logic.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place.

It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

It is with logic that one proves; it is with intuition that one invents.

It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover.

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

It seemed to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

I want to rip off your logic and make passionate sense to you.

Jealousy knows no logic, nor does it respect reciprocity.

Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.

Kurt Godel's achievement in modern logic is singular and monumental - indeed it is more than a monument, it is a landmark which will remain visible far in space and time. ... The subject of logic has certainly completely changed its nature and possibilities with Godel's achievement.

"Learn what can, and cannot, be asked from destiny.

Life [had] replaced logic.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

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

Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person.

Logic doesn't really provide for loyalty. If your logic changes suddenly and things not make sense, you can alter your allegiance, but love stops you from being able to do that.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.