Logic Quotes

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Each problem that I solved became a rule, which served afterwards to solve other problems. — Rene Descartes
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his… — John Dewey
I noticed this process of waking, and predicted with terrifying logic that one of these years not far away I would be awake continuously and… — Annie Dillard
From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or… — Arthur Conan Doyle
I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty. — Arthur Conan Doyle
I have forced myself to contradict myself in order to avoid conforming to my own taste. — Marcel Duchamp
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or… — Albert Einstein
From lies to forgeries the step is not so long, and I have written technical essays on the logic of forgeries and on the influence… — Umberto Eco
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. — Irwin Edman
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. — Albert Einstein
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So,… — Larry Elder
An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic. — Lion Feuchtwanger
Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! — E. M. Forster
In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of… — Garrett Hardin
I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of… — Audrey Hepburn
One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic… — Frank Herbert
Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about gravity. — Damien Hirst
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. — Oliver Wendell Holmes
The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose… — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. — Thomas Huxley

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