Logic Quotes
1313 quotes by 924 authors
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Eventually, Aristotle appeared among the Greeks. He improved the methods of logic and systematized its problems and details. He assigned to logic its proper place…
— Ibn Khaldun
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There's a logic to dreams that doesn't necessarily follow linear narrative. You don't know why things happen, it's your subconscious pushing you, to give you…
— Justin Theroux
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To know how to choose a path with heart is to learn how to follow intuitive feeling. Logic can tell you superficially where a path…
— Jean Shinoda Bolen
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In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and…
— Robert McKee
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Brevity is the soul of command. Too much talking suggests desperation on the part of the leader. Speak shortly, decisively and to the point–and couch…
— Cyrus the Great
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Vivid images are like a beautiful melody that speaks to you on an emotional level. It bypasses your logic centers and even your intellect and…
— Steven Bochco
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At the moment, every country arrives at climate negotiations seeking to keep their own emissions as high as possible. This is the logic of the…
— Mohamed Nasheed
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To make music means to express human intelligence by sonic means. This is intelligence in its broadest sense, which includes not only the peregrinations of…
— Iannis Xenakis
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There are no solved problems; there are only problems that are more or less solved.
— Henri Poincare
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Mathematics is a more powerful instrument of knowledge than any other that has been bequeathed to us by human agency.
— Rene Descartes
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Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.
— Pierre Boutroux
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Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.
— Ralph P. Boas, Jr.
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Mathematics - this may surprise or shock some - is never deductive in creation.
— Paul Halmos
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Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.
— Morris Kline
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Mathematics is a body of knowledge, but it contains no truths.
— Morris Kline
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Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.
— Arthur Eddington
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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
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What humans do with the language of mathematics is to describe patterns...
— Lynn Steen
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Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.
— John A. Van de Walle
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Logic doesn't apply to the real world.
— Marvin Minsky
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