Logic Quotes

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Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is… — Daniel Tammet
The book of female logic is blotted all over with tears, and Justice in their courts is forever in a passion. — William Makepeace Thackeray
Mathematical reasoning may be regarded rather schematically as the exercise of a combination of two facilities, which we may call intuition and ingenuity. — Alan Turing
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it. — Bernard DeVoto
The world of a comic strip ought to be a special place with its own logic and life... I don't want the issue of Hobbes's… — Bill Watterson
Hate is only a form love that hasn't found a way to express itself logically. — Lil Wayne
In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward… — Alfred North Whitehead
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. — A. N. Wilson
A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do. — Niklaus Wirth
Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. — Ludwig Wittgenstein
The language of literature is the language of all the world. It is necessary to divest ourselves at once of the notion of diversified vocal… — George Edward Woodberry
What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense,… — Steven Wright
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. — William Butler Yeats
There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. — Edward Young
Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith. — Francis Collins
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God (or Satan) is accepted as the first cause of… — Stephen King
[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not. — C.S. Lewis
There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined. — Albert Camus

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