Logic Quotes

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When you're a child, grownups always tell you that "sticks and stones will break your bones, but words will never hurt you". They say it… — Susan Boyle
Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing. — Elbert Hubbard
Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of… — Robert Green Ingersoll
So far there has been no philosopher in whose hands philosophy has not grown into an apology for knowledge; on this point, at least, every… — Friedrich Nietzsche
To know, to get into the truth of anything, is ever a mystic art, of which the best logic's can but babble on the surface. — Thomas Carlyle
In rare moments of deep play, we can lay aside our sense of self, shed time's continuum, ignore pain, and sit quietly in the absolute… — Diane Ackerman
It is by logic we prove. It is by intuition we discover. — Henri Poincare
In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the… — Warren Hutcherson
Intuition is the innate ability in everyone to perceive truth directly - not by reason, logic, or analysis, but by a simple knowing from within.… — Goswami Kriyananda
Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition — Henry Mintzberg
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. — Rita Mae Brown
There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic… — Katharine Fullerton Gerould
Common sense is science exactly in so far as it fulfills the ideal of common sense; that is, sees facts as they are, or at… — Thomas Huxley
To be aflame with silence, with joy, is wisdom. It is not through logic but through love. It is not through words but through a… — Rajneesh
To know and not to know, to be conscious of complete truthfulneÂss while telling carefully constructeÂd lies, to hold simultaneoÂusly two opinions which cancelled out,… — George Orwell
Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears. — William Bernbach
There is a logic of colors, and it is with this alone, and not with the logic of the brain, that the painter should conform. — Paul Cezanne
Sir Hiram Maxim is a genuine and typical example of the man of science, romantic, excitable, full of real but somewhat obvious poetry, a little… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
When the logician has resolved each demonstration into a host of elementary operations, all of them correct, he will not yet be in possession of… — Henri Poincare
No legal plunder: This is the principle of justice, peace, order, stability, harmony, and logic. Until the day of my death, I shall proclaim this… — Frederic Bastiat

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