Logic Quotes

Tom lehre - the army has carried the american... ideal to its...
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.
Joseph Farrell
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Frank Herbert, Dune
Bernard mannes baruch - during my eighty - seven years i have witnessed a...
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.
George Steine
From the rubaiyat of omar khayyam (translation by edward fitzgerald) - you know, my friends, with what a brave carouse i...
Histories make men wise poets, witty the mathematics, subtle natural philosophy, deep moral, grave logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Francis Bacon
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
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
Laurence J. Pete
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.
Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times
Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.
Nathan Campbell
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
Logic is like the sword - - Those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butle
Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.
The Law of Thum
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 lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.
George Santayana
People often say that humans have always eaten animals, as if this is a justification for continuing the practice. According to this logic, we should not try to prevent people from murdering other people, since this has also been done since the earliest of times.
Isaac Bashevis Singe
We all dream we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.
Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
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.
If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle.
Rita Mae Brown
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.
H. L. Mencken
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
La Rochefoucauld
Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butle
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.
Margaret Mead
Logic is in the eye of the logician.
Gloria Steinem
Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term etymology was formed from the Latin etus eaten, the root mal bad, and logy study of. It meant the study of things that are hard to swallow.
Mike Kellen
Between the amateur and the professional... there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization... A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.
Bernard De Voto
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
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
Rita Mae Brown
Technological progress is like an axe in the hands of a pathological criminal.
Albert Einstein
I hope you become confortable with the use of logic wihout being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.
Neil Armstrong, USC 2005 graduation
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
Vannevar Bush
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.
Feodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.
Irving Layton
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Oliver Wendell Holmes
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
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