Best 923 quotes in «logic quotes» category

Men are always ready to die for us, but not to make our lives worth having. Cheap sentiment and bad logic.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with everyday observation.

Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.

NASCAR logic isn't always logical.

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

My heart, independent of my logic, had reserved a place for my tormentor and my solace.

My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

My mind’s screaming went unvoiced. Logic grabbed the panic and wrestled it to the ground.

My technique is the outcome of thinking for myself, of my own logic and approach; it is not borrowed from what others are doing.

My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

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

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

Nothing has afforded me so convincing a proof of the unity of the Deity as these purely mental conceptions of numerical and mathematical science.

Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

No one complains of the rules of Grammar as fettering Language; because it is understood that correct use is not founded on Grammar, but Grammar on correct use. A just system of Logic or of Rhetoric is analogous, in this respect, to Grammar.

Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.

Once you realize there's less logic in human institutions than you once thought, you see the narrative potential in just about everything around you. Sometimes, in fact, it seems as if the human world runs on inefficiency and erratic behavior.

One of the big misapprehensions about mathematics that we perpetrate in our classrooms is that the teacher always seems to know the answer to any problem that is discussed.

... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

Perhaps there really are managers who can outperform the market consistently - logic would suggest that they exist. But they are remarkably well-hidden.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.

Poetry, even that of the loftiest, and seemingly, that of the wildest odes, [has] a logic of its own as severe as that of science; and more difficult, because more subtle, more complex, and dependent on more and more fugitive causes. In the truly great poets... there is a reason assignable, not only for every word, but for the position of every word.

Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

Politeness is better than logic. You can often persuade when you cannot convince.

Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science issue.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

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

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

Rhetoric is the counterpart of logic; since both are conversant with subjects of such a nature as it is the business of all to have a certain knowledge of, and which belong to no distinct science. Wherefore all men in some way participate of both; since all, to a certain extent, attempt, as well to sift, as to maintain an argument; as well to defend themselves, as to impeach.

seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.

Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.

Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.