Logic Quotes · Page 51

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

— William Butler Yeats

We may convince others by our arguements, but we can only persuade them by their own

— Joseph Joubert

“There is a rational explanation for everything, regardless of whether that explanation is known.”

— Koda

Faith in God goes beyond intellectual presentation and logic.

— Radhanath Swami

I am undefeated in the arguments I have with people in my head.

— Anonymous

When I finally applied logic to Religion that was when I quit paying after life insurance and quit going

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

— Alexander Smith

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

— Michel de Montaigne

As long as any pro wrestling we see on the TV screen doesn't insult my intelligence and can continually use common sense,…

— Jim Ross

The theory of high-intensity, anaerobic, bodybuilding exercise is not true because I or anyone else, no matter how many might agree, say…

— Mike Mentzer

Every well-thought-out rebuttal to dogma, every scrap of intelligent logic, every absurdist reduction of some bullying stance is the antidote.

— George Sanders

A rational man knows-or makes it a point to discover-the source of his emotions, the basic premises from which they come.

— Ayn Rand

Telephone companies do not shut off your phone line based on what political views you express during calls. The same logic should…

— Bill Hagerty

“If you play games with the law of non-contradiction, then every time you open your mouth and say anything, you're cheating. Every…

— Ronald Nash

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing…

— Moss Hart

The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and…

— H. L. Mencken

This death to the logic of emotional commitments of our chance moment in the world of space and time, this recognition of,…

— Joseph Campbell

Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more…

— T. S. Eliot

How many pizzas are consumed each year in the United States? How many words have you spoken in your life? How many…

— John Allen Paulos

Life had a way of wrecking her careful plans, again and again. Roulette was more predictable than life. Small wonder she was…

— Loretta Chase

“A sprout as the subject is without arising, because it is free from arising from any of the four extremes, just as…

— Karl Brunnholzl

“Even when we're right, we may be wrong. If--in the process of debate--we've hurt the heart of another being, it matters not…

— Shakieb Orgunwall

The body of science is not, as it is sometimes thought, a huge coherent mass of facts, neatly arranged in sequence, each…

— Lewis Thomas

Since the attachment to the cult of Islam is psychological, the solution must also be psychological. We have all the logical proof…

— Ali Sina

“And nothing . . . disquiets a rationalist more than a forest.”

— Robert Pogue Harrison

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.

— Isaac Bashevis Singer

All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.

— Woody Allen

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

— Anonymous

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

— Gabriel Marcel

I'm a rationalist and a skeptic, someone who safely separates faith from reason.

— Benjamin Wittes

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

— Noam Chomsky

The concept of number is the obvious distinction between the beast and man.

— Joseph de Maistre

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

— Aesop

Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.

— Pierre Boutroux

When introduced at the wrong time or place, good logic may be the worst enemy of good teaching.

— George Polya

“Nard and I thought it over and came up with some answers via 'band logic,' not to be confused with actual logic.”

— Nile Rodgers

Logic and reason have no place in matters of the heart, love isn't rational.

— Ryan Reynolds

“Repetition of an argument proves your determination, not truth.”

— Raheel Farooq

If you want to be shot down by the Arrows of Eros, you should get rid of the iron shield called Logic!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan

It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself.

— Oscar Wilde