A MAN WITH A CONVICTION is a hard man to change. Tell him you disagree and he turns away. Show him facts… — Leon Festinger Copy Share Image
The inclination to believe in the fantastic may strike some as a failure in logic, or gullibility, but it’s really a gift.… — Chris Van Allsburg Copy Share Image
The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method, ... — Paul Halmos Copy Share Image
If man was a logical creature: his last suspectnamely, his mouthwas going to be the first; whenever he thinks that someone, or,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no… — Vincent Canby Copy Share Image
A scientist works largely by intuition. Given enough experience, a scientist examining a problem can leap to an intuition as to what… — Guy Consolmagno Copy Share Image
We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy. — Richard M. Nixon Copy Share Image
Don't try to reason with your heart or feel with your mind for just as the heart knows no logic, the mind… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
“It was a good answer that was made by one who when they showed him hanging in a temple a picture of… — Francis Bacon Copy Share Image
From semantics to shipbuilding, from dream theory to propositional logic, any specialist ... is invariably astonished to discover that modern knowledge was… — Lucio Russo Copy Share Image
“It is precisely because the principle of the transcendence of the object is completely independent of the existential status of the objects… — Max Scheler Copy Share Image
She never imagined a scenario in which her love was not returned with the same depth of feeling, for to her it… — Isabel Allende Copy Share Image
Discovery should come as an adventure rather than as the result of a logical process of thought. Sharp, prolonged thinking is necessary… — Theobald Smith Copy Share Image
Focused intensity is required to win. I can't stress enough that people who took control of their finances and worked their way… — David Ramsey Copy Share Image
All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic… — William Zinsser Copy Share Image
The deep paradox uncovered by AI research: the only way to deal efficiently with very complex problems is to move away from… — Daniel Crevier Copy Share Image
The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's… — Robert Mankoff Copy Share Image
“In the discovery of secret things, and in the investigation of hidden causes, stronger reasons are obtained from sure experiments and demonstrated… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I always suspend logic for emotion. If it feels real, or it feels like what I'm going for, we should abandon reality… — Sam Esmail Copy Share Image
When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or… — Adam Cohen Copy Share Image
Logic only tells us what's there; it can't really address what isn't. Even the most devoted empiricist must admit that we have… — Megan Chance Copy Share Image
“I mean, you could claim that anything's real if the only basis for believing in it is that nobody's proved it doesn't… — J.K. Rowling Copy Share Image
The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal… — Omar Khayyam Copy Share Image
“You can't always expect people to apply your wisdom when they didn't use wisdom before they found themselves knee deep in their… — Shannon L. Alder 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
Howard's enchanting Hospice obeys its own magical inner logic with excellent prose and a sadness that will split open hearts. You have… — Deb Olin Unferth Copy Share Image
“The wrong approaches to faith and to skepticism are equally detrimental to the path. For the former declares its answers too soon… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
A logic proof is: you get a starting point and an ending point, and you have to get there through all these… — Heidi Julavits Copy Share Image
Whenever I see a new film, I deliberately tune down several 'dials' in my mind - critical faculties associated with logic, plotting,… — David Brin Copy Share Image
Behind every argument is somebody's ignorance. Rediscover the foundation of truth and the purpose and causes of dispute immediately disappear. — Louis D. Brandeis Copy Share Image
But we all recognise the primary foible of frail humanity - our propensity for embracing hope and shunning logic, our tendency to… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. It's logic-based creativity. — John Romero 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
“You could say all you liked about reason and logic and common sense and imagination, but when the chips were down the… — Mark Haddon Copy Share Image
I'm not belittling the art world. Not at all. I take it quite seriously, actually. But the logic of art is a… — Rachel Kushner Copy Share Image
“To cultivate a pleasure in being wrong sounds perverse, yet losing an argument means escaping from an old idea and the acquisition… — Edward De Bono Copy Share Image
What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate… — Austin Farrer Copy Share Image
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
Thanks to my Buddhist faith, to the positivity that arose from prayer, I put the optimism of determination before the pessimism of… — Roberto Baggio Copy Share Image
