Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much… — Judith Martin Copy Share Image
Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like… — Charlie Hunter Copy Share Image
Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every… — William Stanley Jevons Copy Share Image
“The employment of the word Logic to denote the theory of Argumentation, is derived from the Aristotelian, or, as they are commonly… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
Laws of nature are human inventions, like ghosts. Laws of logic, or mathematics are also human inventions, like ghosts. The whole blessed… — Robert M. Pirsig Copy Share Image
You're creating a score that has to have an emotional and story logic to it. You want a dramatic arc. You want… — Alan Menken Copy Share Image
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill… — William E. Gladstone Copy Share Image
The slicing technique from Flatland still remains one of the most powerful tools for dealing with aggregates in higher dimensions. — Thomas Banchoff Copy Share Image
Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple… — Goswami Kriyananda Copy Share Image
“The inconsistencies that haunt our relationships with animals also result from the quirks of human cognition. We like to think of ourselves… — Hal Herzog Copy Share Image
What sets imperialism of the capitalist sort apart from other conceptions of empire is that it is the capitalist logic that typically… — David Harvey Copy Share Image
“As a matter of fact, with all his wit, humor, raillery, persiflage, he was the profoundest logician that ever appealed to the… — Herman E. Kittredge Copy Share Image
Sunstein said government agents ‘might enter chat rooms, online social networks, or even real-space groups and attempt to undermine percolating conspiracy theories… — Cass Sunstein Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
There was such an incredible logic to kissing, such a metal-to-magnet pull between two people that it was a wonder that they… — Ann Patchett Copy Share Image
You can always veer off the path, that's one thing that has really comforted me over the past year. When you think,… — Emma Stone Copy Share Image
A trial is still an ordeal by battle. For the broadsword there is the weight of evidence; for the battle-ax the force… — Lloyd Paul Stryker Copy Share Image
“Logic and loss aren’t always great friends. Sometimes we mourn for the things that hurt us. Sometimes, that’s okay. School” — Seanan McGuire Copy Share Image
Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal… — Alfred Korzybski Copy Share Image
I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
“It is necessary, first of all, to find a correct logical starting point, one which can lead us to a natural and… — Ernst Cassirer Copy Share Image
Pure logic could never lead us to anything but tautologies; it can create nothing new; not from it alone can any science… — Henri Poincare Copy Share Image
Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just… — Douglas Tompkins Copy Share Image
The world is full of strange phenomena that cannot be explained by the laws of logic or science. Dennis Rodman is only… — Dave Barry Copy Share Image
“Logic is always defeated by itself, that is to say, by the insignificance of the cases on which it thrives.’ Ibid-25 bit.ly/Mnhoc7… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end,… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
There are areas of philosophy that are important, but I think of them as being subsumed by other fields. In the case… — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
“In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passions always were of… — Edgar Allan Poe Copy Share Image
Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause… — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Can you please tell me the logic excuses, you talked like this world is huge. Have u heard this what a small… — Diana Yan Manan Copy Share Image
By logic, it's a handicap. If I shut one eye, I can't see from the other eye. But it is one of… — Rana Daggubati Copy Share Image
Advertising has always been about creating awareness. We started to question that logic. Discovery-led consumption is where we are headed. We are… — Naveen Tewari Copy Share Image
“I never had a mind for math. I simply couldn't hold the formulas and numbers in my head. It was logic that… — Cheryl Strayed Copy Share Image
“I hold that belief in God is not merely as reasonable as other belief, or even a little or infinitely more probably… — Cornelius Van Til Copy Share Image
Teen: Has sex, does drugs, bad grades Parent: Just don't do it again! ok? Teen: Doesn't do chores. Parent: YOU CHILD ARE… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
When I disagree with a rational man, I let reality be our final arbiter; if I am right, he will learn; if… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
What eludes logic is the most precious element in us, and one can draw nothing from a syllogism that the mind has… — Andre Gide Copy Share Image
It is perplexing to see the flexibility of the so-called 'exact sciences' which by cast-iron laws of logic and by the infallible… — Vasco Ronchi Copy Share Image
Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather but… — Zell Miller Copy Share Image
