Best 923 quotes in «logic quotes» category

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

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

Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.

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.

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

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

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

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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

Since 1933, New Deal farm policy has continued and expanded, pursuing its grisly logic at the expense of the nation's consumers, year in and year out, in Democrat or Republican regimes, in good times and in bad.

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.

Sometimes you tell someone to never call you again; and then the phone rings and you hope it's them - it's the most twisted logic of all time.

Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

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

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.

The best defense against logic is ignorance.

The anti-immigrant logic has basically saturated our world. I'm staying, and I'm fighting.

Summation of Leviathan: "The axiom, fear; the method, logic; the conclusion, despotism.

The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

The decision-makers should communicate the customer pictures and the logic of the strategies and actions. That communication allows employees throughout the organization to implement the strategies and actions, tweaking them appropriately in response to variations in the marketplace. It also allows employees to recognize information in the marketplace that contradicts the customer pictures, either because the pictures were not entirely correct or because customers have changed.

The difference between a poet and a philosopher is that the poet sees logically and describes basically the beauty whereas the philosopher defines the basics and shows the beauty of logics.

The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

The example of a syllogism that he had studied in Kiesewetter's logic: Caius is a man, men are mortal, therefore Caius is mortal, had throughout his whole life seemed to him right only in relation to Caius, but not to him at all.

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

The less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

The logic is backwards. Genius is the result of doing what you love, not a prerequisite for it.

The logic of the heart is absurd

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

The minute you take away somebody the public's voting for, you're screwing with the program. There's no logic to it.

The mind is led on, step by step, to defeat its own logic.

The only way one can guarantee one's loyalty is love. Loyalty is beyond logic, really.

Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.

The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few.

Theology is the logic of the Devil.