Logic Quotes · Page 34

Whats immediately profitable is the only kind of logic that capitalism understands.

— Susan George

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance. Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

— Robert Benchley

Constructive argument brings out the best in both partnership and relationship.

— Anne Nwakama

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

— Jawaharlal Nehru

“War clearly blurred the distinction between logic and superstition”

— Markus Zusak

It was the most convulted, ridiculous piece of logic I'd heard in awhile... It was something I would have come up with.

— Richelle Mead

“Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen's voice whispered. She ignored it.”

— Brandon Sanderson

“I'm having an argument with myself. And I'm losing. So not good.”

— Cynthia Hand

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art…

— Joseph Wood Krutch

The system becomes logically closed when each of the logical implications which can be derived from any one proposition within the system…

— Talcott Parsons

Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until…

— Ivan Turgenev

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only…

— Jane Haddam

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism,…

— Tadao Ando

The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on…

— Ken Wilber

In the minds of a Liberal, someone who isn't Christian might be offended if we say Merry Christmas to them, so we…

— Milo Yiannopoulos

An argument can be logically valid, but unsound in that it contains a false premise and, therefore, leads to a false conclusion…

— Sam Harris

When the boy begins to understand that the visible point is preceded by an invisible point, that the shortest distance between two…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

No living creature, not even man, has achieved, in the centre of his sphere, what the bee has achieved in her own:…

— Maurice Maeterlinck

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

“In short, we would discover, as we should already, that logic is in the eye of the logician. (For instance, here's an…

— Gloria Steinem

A close, daily intimacy between two people has to be paid for: it requires a great deal of experience of life, logic,…

— Ivan Goncharov

Marriage, in my culture, has nothing to do with romance. It's a matter of logic. If Mr. and Mrs. Ahmadi like Mr.…

— Firoozeh Dumas

As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject…

— Anonymous

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

Dialectic thought is an attempt to break through the coercion of logic by its own means.

— Theodor Adorno

I enjoy a good reasoned argument. I love the power of logic.

— Luke Roberts

It sucks when your brain knows logic but your heart disagrees.

— Abhishek Tiwari

People want to ignore what they can't understand. They're looking for logic at any cost.

— Alice Hoffman

If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.]

— Harry S. Truman

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.

— Charles Siebert

“There is only one argument for doing something; the rest are arguments for doing nothing”

— Anonymous

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

— Blaise Pascal

“Logic only gives man what he needs,” he stammered. “Magic gives him what he wants.”

— Tom Robbins

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

— Alexander Theroux

Rationality squeezes out much that is rich and juicy and fascinating.

— Anne Lamott

The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that.

— Karl Barth

“[A]ny being with the supposed capacity to create the logically impossible must himself be logically impossible.”

— George H. Smith

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

— Albert Camus

I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been…

— Jim Gaffigan

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

— Terry Pratchett