It is evidently equally foolish to accept probable reasoning from a mathematician and to demand from a rhetorician demonstrative proofs. — Aristotle Copy Share Image
In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character,… — Terence Stamp Copy Share Image
Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet.… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
I demand that my books be judged with utmost severity, by knowledgeable people who know the rules of grammar and of logic,… — Louis Aragon Copy Share Image
Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Fire and water, logic and reason—those footholds of reality that you mortals hold so near and dear become like so much mist… — Nenia Campbell Copy Share Image
The most rational defender of nature is driven by a passion for wildness that cannot be explained by an appeal to logic. — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
Parenting is not logical. If it were, we would never have to read a book, never need a family therapist, and never… — Jeanne Elium Copy Share Image
Wind, weather, power, load - gradually these elements stop churning in my mind. It's less a decision of logic than a feeling,… — Charles Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need… — Franz Winkler Copy Share Image
The validity of mathematical propositions is independent of the actual world-the world of existing subject-matters-is logically prior to it, and would remain… — Cassius Jackson Keyser Copy Share Image
Republicans, supposed defenders of limited government, actually are enablers of an unlimited presidency. Their belief in strict construction of the Constitution evaporates,… — George Will Copy Share Image
“I need to get ready. Ash? Touch the food and I won't take you for a driving lesson tomorrow. Dad? Touch it… — Kelley Armstrong Copy Share Image
Anyone who has had actual contact with the making of the inventions that built the radio art knows that these inventions have… — Edwin Howard Armstrong Copy Share Image
As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation… — Richard Whately Copy Share Image
“Truth and facts are woven together. However, sometimes facts can blind you from seeing what is actually going on in someone’s life.” — Shannon L. Alder Copy Share Image
There is perhaps no field aspiring to be scientific where flagrant personal bias, logic martyred in the cause of supporting a prejudice,… — Helen Thompson Woolley Copy Share Image
“You never do anything without a reason." "Of course not. Why do anything without a reason?" "Don't start up with your circular… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and simplicity in human thought. — Edward Teller Copy Share Image
People live their lives believing in what they classify as reality. And no matter how hard we try, we can't change what… — Isaiah Harden (Me Copy Share Image
If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the… — Alan Keyes Copy Share Image
It's the false moral component behind blind animal love that so frosts me. The faulty logic that believes that the capacity to… — David Rakoff Copy Share Image
For me, all fiction is about prizing the logic of metaphors - which is the logic of narratives in general - over… — Ken Liu Copy Share Image
Business and its logic of productivity have become the reference point in a society that thinks marketing every time it opens its… — Corinne Maier Copy Share Image
Pops added,you know, they say if you don't vote, you get the government you deserve. And if you do, you never get… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My heroes were always a combination of Captain Kirk and Mr Spock. You have to be ruled by logic, but if you're… — Maria Ressa Copy Share Image
“Logic is the mirror of thought, and not vice versa;in classes, relations et nombres; essai sur les groupements de logistique et la… — Jean Piaget Copy Share Image
Typically what happens is, somebody drags an idea from the past that worked in an old set of logics that they try… — Michael Nesmith Copy Share Image
When your reasons for believing something are justified ad hoc, you are left susceptible to further discoveries undermining the rationale for that… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“I'm fine," Kate said. "In fact, since my last two dates were so awful, things can only get better." "Bad deduction," Jessie… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
Teasing is often healthy and fun, not to mention an important part of interpersonal and individual development. But when it's abused, 'just… — Rachel Simmons Copy Share Image
Logic, fact, morality, legality, ideology: All of it is irrelevant in understanding the Party of Trump. Republicans have made crystal clear that… — Max Boot Copy Share Image
I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I… — Bruce Davison Copy Share Image
Most people don't get lucky. They get human. They get crushes. This means you irrationally mortgage what little logic you own to… — Sloane Crosley Copy Share Image
“I’ve always believed that truth is found by using logic and reason to sort through the facts and eliminate the contradictions. I… — Roy Huff Copy Share Image
“The 1st rule of logic club is that the 2nd rule is false. The 2nd rule of logic club is that the… — Makuochukwu Okigbo Copy Share Image
“The world is too much for us. Rationality as we have come to know it works by ignoring most of experience: laws… — Tom Cheetham Copy Share Image
“Logic and reason are the naphthalene balls we use to pack them away into a sandook called 'Someday'. But when that day… — Rashmi Bansal Copy Share Image
