Logic Quotes
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.Alvin Toffle
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.Woody Allen
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish - world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.Sigmund Freud
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.H. L. Mencken
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.Rosenstock - Huessy
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.Mother Theresa
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.Irving Layton
All true wealth is biological.Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.Francis Bacon
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.La Rochefoucauld
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.George Steine
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.Tom Lehre
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.Stephen Jay Gould
Logic is like the sword - - Those who appeal to it shall perish by it.Samuel Butle
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.David Russell
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.James Rippe, M. D.
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.David Brooks
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.Stephen King
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.Dale Carnegie
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second - Rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.Douglas Adams, The Guardian
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.Blaise Pascal
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.Rita Mae Brown
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell
The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.Eric Hoffe
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.Albert Einstein
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self - Inflicted fate.Albert Einstein
Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.Henry Tuckerman
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.Albert Einstein
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - - They terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.Zambendorf, _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.Brooks Atkinson
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.Rodan of Alexandria
During my eighty - Seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.Bernard Mannes Baruch
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return?Margot Fonteyn
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.David Borenstein
