The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
What a silly thing love is! It is not half as useful as logic, for it does not prove anything and it… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
Even though most people who reject Christianity treat it as a refuge for enemies of reason, the truth is that there may… — Ronald H. Nash Copy Share Image
If there are more than two sexes, then so be it and, of course, the assumption that there are two helps shape,… — Alison Assiter Copy Share Image
I think each family has a funhouse logic all its own, and in that distortion,in that delusion, all behavior can seem both… — Darin Strauss Copy Share Image
Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions,… — Garry Kasparov Copy Share Image
“I feel like I'm in a world with its own sense of logic. Its own rules. Like when you're in a dream,… — Neil Gaiman 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
“Suppose that members of a religious movement, such as Christianity, maintain that the existence of some powerful god and its goals or… — Matt McCormick Copy Share Image
Let the Spirit be lacking, and there may be wisdom of words, but not the wisdom of God; the powers of oratory,… — Arthur Tappan Pierson Copy Share Image
“Turing attended Wittgenstein's lectures on the philosophy of mathematics in Cambridge in 1939 and disagreed strongly with a line of argument that… — John D. Barrow Copy Share Image
The world is mystical, mysterious, powerful, brutal and awesome... it has a surreal logic, and moves in patterns, some of which can… — Nina Menkes Copy Share Image
I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of… — Jaquelin T. Robertson Copy Share Image
In chess the most unbelievable thing for me is that it's a game for everybody: rich, poor, girl, boy, old, young. It's… — Judit Polgar Copy Share Image
The increased abstraction in mathematics that took place during the early part of this century was paralleled by a similar trend in… — Keith Devlin Copy Share Image
Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
One of the most powerful transformational catalysts is knowledge, new information, or logic that defies old mental models and ways of thinking. — Elizabeth Thornton Copy Share Image
If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value… — Sam Harris Copy Share Image
Fear is the enemy of logic. There is no more debilitating, crushing, self-defeating, sickening thing in the world--to an individual or to… — Frank Sinatra Copy Share Image
I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
Both induction and deduction, reasoning from the particular and the general, and back again from the universal to the specific, form the… — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
“You do realize that you are addressing the emperor of the Crescent Empire." "And you are addressing a free woman of the… — Sarah Beth Durst Copy Share Image
“And I had gone along with such a crooked piece of logic. Why? Did either of us believe that teaching children might… — Robin Hobb Copy Share Image
If we understood the world, we would realize that there is a logic of harmony underlying its manifold apparent dissonances. — Jean Sibelius Copy Share Image
A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or… — Moss Hart Copy Share Image
For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason. — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“As the dew drop slides down the leaf to wet the soil, they call it "fall in love". Yet, do we know… — R. N. Prasher Copy Share Image
“Baley’s lips twitched. He had guessed that in some ways robotic logic must fall short and he was convinced of it now.… — Isaac Asimov Copy Share Image
Dreamers and Achievers are very similar. Both work under the same logic and share the same visions, but only one will do… — Ash Sweeney Copy Share Image
It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that… — Christopher Lasch Copy Share Image
“Logic founded on passions reverses the traditional sequence of reasoning and places the conclusion before the premises.” — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
The rules of evidence in the main are based on experience, logic, and common sense, less hampered by history than some parts… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr Copy Share Image
Science is not formal logic-it needs the free play of the mind in as great a degree as any other creative art.… — Max Born Copy Share Image
It is for ordinary minds, not for psychoanalysts, that our rules of evidence are framed. They have their source very often in… — Benjamin Cardozo Copy Share Image
Histories of discrimination can live on in digital platforms, and if they go unquestioned, they become part of the logic of everyday… — Kate Crawford Copy Share Image
When even the dictators of today appeal to reason, they mean that they possess the most tanks. They were rational enough to… — Max Horkheimer Copy Share Image
I instinctively live. I do what I do. A lot of people live off of logic rather than emotions. I just live… — Bishop Nehru Copy Share Image
If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be… — David Novak Copy Share Image
The laws against public nudity make no sense. The idea that Jerry Falwell can go topless while Cindy Crawford cannot is an… — Peter McWilliams Copy Share Image
