Logic Quotes

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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 into Gold transmute. — Omar Khayyam
When faith is supported by facts or by logic it ceases to be faith. — Edith Hamilton
No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic — George Henry Lewes
My parents were lenient. My mother believed God was another word for nature. I took up Satanism not out of desperation, but out of logic.… — Anton Szandor LaVey
Decoration is asked to be 'merely' pleasing, 'merely' embellishing, and the 'functional' logic of Modernism leaves no room, apparently, for such 'mereness.' This is part… — Clement Greenberg
It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more… — Douglas Hofstadter
There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must… — Antony Jay
Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be. [it's a good point - pretty hard to argue with that sort… — Terry Goodkind
A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the… — Naomi Judd
most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic. — Ernst Mayr
Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely. — Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
Logic is the art of making truth prevail. — Jean de la Bruyere
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them. — Jawaharlal Nehru
If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of… — Charles Fort
Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy… — Ricky Gervais
I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own… — Burton Silverman
The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic. — Frank X. Barron
The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians -- and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse. — H. L. Mencken
Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things. — Confucius

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