Logic Quotes · Page 30

Surely you do not believe in the gods. What's your argument? Where's your proof?

— Aristophanes

I'm supposed to be a scientific person but I use intuition more than logic in making basic decisions.

— Seymour Cray

“Principles and logic didn't give birth to reality. Reality came first, and the principles and logic followed.”

— Haruki Murakami

Intellect is limited, but it has one great merit; it can recognize its limits

— Anonymous

It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are…

— Irwin Edman

Getting in an argument with a woman is like being arrested, because anything you say can and will be used against you.

— Anonymous

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

— Melissa Marr

“The expression e=mc2 is the ultimate statement in bounce per ounce.”

— Nigel S. Hey

The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic…

— Bertrand Russell

“You need one whole hell of a lot of rationality before it does anything but lead you into new and interesting mistakes.”

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic…

— Sharon Stone

“Think for yourself along rational lines. Hypothesize, test against the evidence, never accept that a question has been answered as well as…

— Michael Lewis

Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to…

— Henri Poincare

“It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be…

— Betrand Russell

What truly is logic? Who decides reason? My quest has taken me through the physical, the metaphysical, the delusional... and back

— Myself

“Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasnah] was pointing out my logical…

— Brandon Sanderson

War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as…

— John C. Calhoun

The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of…

— Willard Van Orman Quine

“Simplify? Let me try. In school days, we are taught that if there are four animals in a room and you add…

— Ravindra Shukla

Why ... do the myths of America the Hateful take such powerful hold? Because anti-Americanism provides a useful emotional function which goes…

— Michael Gove

The spy genre is something I loved.It also extends to the bad guy because I think, to me, what I love the…

— John Lasseter

Music for a long time has been telling what the world is like. What music has to say now, in a manner…

— Eli Siegel

“We cannot therefore say in logic: This and this there is in the world, that there is not. For that would apparently…

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intellect, of genius, of profoundly rigorous logical…

— Andrew Bernstein

If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

— Sam Harris

“A healthy argument, even with an idiot, is always good; it opens one's eyes to own misunderstandings.”

— Ashok Kallarakkal

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

— Grace Hartigan

You can't reason someone out of something that they weren't reasoned into in the first place.

— Mark Twain

Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

— Antoine Arnauld

Viewed from the summit of reason, all life looks like a malignant disease and the world like a madhouse.

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Being and not being are not two different realities, but two different aspects of the same reality.”

— Raheel Farooq

The characters have their own lives and their own logic, and you have to act accordingly.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

— Anonymous

He who does not understand the supreme certainty of mathematics is wallowing in confusion.

— Leonardo da Vinci

No sentence can be effective if it contains facts alone. It must also contain emotion, image, logic, and promise.

— Eugene Schwartz

“No one can command over the images of your mind but an Author can and if you won't believe on me then…

— Prakhar Srivastav

Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight

— Josh Sundquist

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

— Aldous Huxley

A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one.

— Neil Postman

Imagination is more important than logic, as logic is limited and imagination is not.

— Melchor Lim