so my grandmother was not without humanity. and if she wore cocktail dresses when she labored in the garden, they were cocktail… — John Irving Copy Share Image
The soul cannot be humbled by fasts and prayer; it must be broken by mortal sin to experience forgiveness of sin and… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
I'm of the old-fashioned opinion that shame can be used for all sorts of good in society. An example of this is… — Keli Goff Copy Share Image
“The only reason I'm writing this down is to show how human reason, even very sharp and exact human reason, can get… — Yevgeny Zamyatin Copy Share Image
Action is the music of our life. Like music, it starts from a pause of leisure, a silence of activity which our… — Salvador de Madariaga Copy Share Image
Ideals are not something I can control. It's not logic that convinces me of something, it's what my heart says. My heart… — Michelle Shocked Copy Share Image
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics. — Augustus De Morgan Copy Share Image
Logic is what the way things are. Reasons are the twisted things we come up with in order to deal with it. — Elias Atienza Copy Share Image
It has got to the point in this country where men believe they are men, just because that is their birthright. If… — William Powell Copy Share Image
Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be. [it's a good point - pretty hard to argue… — Terry Goodkind Copy Share Image
One very interesting framework for a company to succeed over time - beyond just business logic and analytics - is, do they… — Steve Jurvetson Copy Share Image
All rational action is in the first place individual action. Only the individual thinks. Only the individual reasons. Only the individual acts. — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
“Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of… — Morris F. Cohen Copy Share Image
I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it. — Jaime Escalante Copy Share Image
“In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of a defeat; but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
“The sensible man,' Crow had said (to Sherlock Holmes), 'don't look to confirm what he already knows -- he looks to deny… — Andrew Lane Copy Share Image
... We in the USA have been depending on prayers, pleading, and self-abasement to a deity to bring us magical advantages, and… — James Randi Copy Share Image
If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic? — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking. — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
“Now, me lord, you know you oughtn’t talk like that at this hour of the morning. Yougot to pardon his lordship, sir,”… — Diana Gabaldon Copy Share Image
Public schools are not simply being corporatized, they are also subjected increasingly to a militarizing logic that disciplines the bodies of young… — Henry Giroux Copy Share Image