Logic Quotes · Page 45

Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].

— Gregory Bateson

“define logic as the science which treats of the operations of the human understanding in the pursuit of truth.”

— John Stuart Mill

The end point of rationality is to demonstrate the limits of rationality.

— Blaise Pascal

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

— Jeff Lindsay

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

— Edward Young

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

— Anonymous

We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.

— Anonymous

PEoplE saY...raghav singh have patience, but they don't know Having patience is just being good at hiding impatience...

— Raghav Singh

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just…

— Robert McKee

“Sabism is thematic pallet, philosophical colourism, chromatic signature and dual art, bi-chromatic scale, soft scale, poetics of attractiveness, mythologism, actual value, logism…

— Lepota Cosmo

Remember in elementary school you were told that in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file…

— Stephen King

Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which…

— Anonymous

ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

— Colin Maclaurin

“The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.”

— Maimonides

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So…

— Jon Voight

We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we…

— Rene Descartes

The weight of the old world is stifling, and trying to shovel its weight off your life is tiring just to think…

— Hilary Mantel

During our session, I told Tove about how I'd done mind-speak on Duncan, but it only worked when I was irritated. Using…

— Amanda Hocking

You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script…

— Shane Black

Desperation precludes reflection. That is one of the reasons why smart people can get involved in very obviously unworkable relationships. Like addiction,…

— Melissa Febos

Colleges are a unique space in our culture. They're a temporary constellation of humans, like a workplace. And the rules about sexual…

— Vanessa Grigoriadis

I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so…

— Robert Redford

My Master... Say all you wish of me. It does not matter to me:Shallow.. Stupid.. Crazy.. Simple minded. It does not concern…

— Nizar Qabbani

[Modern science] passed through a long period of uncertainty and inconclusive experiment, but as the instrumental aids to research improved, and the…

— Thomas George Bonney

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

— Cesare Pavese

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

— Jay Samit

“I am only an agent of creativity and I write in order to start an argument and not to conclude it.”

— John Nkemngong Nkengasong

“Does this rationale make sense to you? (Syd) That’s Jack-Logic. It makes total sense. (Steele)”

— Sherrilyn Kenyon

Most mistakes in philosophy and logic occur because the human mind is apt to take the symbol for the reality.

— Albert Einstein

Only mathematics and mathematical logic can say as little as the physicist means to say.

— Bertrand Russell

Faith is something that's - it's hard to articulate. It's - there's - it's not based on logic.

— Jim Gaffigan

Be part of the solution and answer to the problem versus part of the problem and continuing argument around it.

— David Pratt

Objectivity begins with the realization that one is subjective

— Donovan M. Neal

I think that whatever nationality you are, you should be treated equally, otherwise you don't have equality.

— Philip Vera Cruz

“Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically is to be perpetually astonished.”

— Osip Mandelstam

“Exhausting someone in argument is not the same as convincing him”

— Tim Kreider

“It's hard to follow a person's logic if you don't know how they feel.”

— Veronica Rossi

To rely solely on logic is in essence to operate within a structure of limited knowledge and understanding.

— Stephan Labossiere

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

— Agatha Christie

I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.

— Sanford I. Weill