Logic Quote by Steven E. Landsburg Download Open image ““Logic matters. It leads us from simple ideas to surprising conclusions.”” — Steven E. Landsburg ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Logic
“In this world there are very few things made from logic alone. It is illogical for man to be too logical. Some things we… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
“Most of us, in our civilized society, rely too heavily on reasoning capacity to make things happen. We've been raised to believe that logic… — Herb Cohen Copy Share Image
“Sometimes I think humans have a common sense that completely defies logic.” — Mango Wodzak Copy Share Image
“perhaps, having already reached conclusions in our own minds, we are loth to have them disturbed by facts.” — W.E.B. Du Bois Copy Share Image
“Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically is to be perpetually astonished.” — Osip Mandelstam Copy Share Image
“Don’t pay as much attention to people’s conclusions as to the reasoning that led them to their conclusions.” — Ray Dalio Copy Share Image
“If you bake a cupcake, the world has one more cupcake. If you become a circus clown, the world has one more squirt of… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“The governing principle is precisely the same one that predicts behavior at the gas pump. When the price of gasoline is low, people choose… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“Of course, ideas can always be misleading—but then so can numbers. Still, we advance by learning new ways to think, even if those ways… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“A few lines of reasoning can change the way we see the world.” — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“Among college students, economics and philosophy majors have similar current incomes, but it’s the economics students who drive cars, because it’s the economics students… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“Colleges should offer lots of optional life-enriching experiences, like intramural basketball and a place to sunbathe. But reading books, like basketball or sunbathing, is… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“When I find a pair of pants I like, I buy a lot of them. Really a lot. Perhaps there’s something genetic here; I… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“Why am I permitted to apply racial criteria when I select a spouse but not when I select a personal assistant?” — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“A low current stock price forecasts a low future price. If today’s price is low, there is a good reason to buy more (it’s… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“Selling is a painful necessity, buying is what makes it all worthwhile.” — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
“If it's okay to enrich ourselves by denying foreigners the right to earn a living, why shouldn't we enrich ourselves by invading peaceful countries… — Steven E. Landsburg Copy Share Image
Logic is essentially a tool for getting at truth; it is the tool, for without it no reasoning is possible in any field of… — David Oderberg Copy Share Image
If we were to expect the unexpected, then the unexpected would become expected, so we might as well say expect the expected, but then… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures bristling with prejudice and motivated by pride and… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
“What you owe your critics are your RESULTS not explanations not defence just RESULTS.Evidence terminates Arguments.” — Fela Durotoye Copy Share Image
Just between you and me, shouldn’t the World Bank be encouraging MORE migration of the dirty industries to the LDCs [Less Developed Countries]?... I… — Lawrence Summers Copy Share Image
Both fact and logic seem to me to support the view that savings invested in privately owned economic tools of production amount to an… — F. A. Harper Copy Share Image
Companies are not charitable enterprises: They hire workers to make profits. In the United States, this logic still works. In Europe, it hardly does. — Paul Samuelson Copy Share Image
“Religion, like science, is only noteworthy when it emphasizes a matter of what is true rather than whose belief is greater or lesser or… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
The dialectic is neither fiction nor mysticism, but a science of the forms of our thinking insofar as it is not limited to the… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
In presenting a mathematical argument the great thing is to give the educated reader the chance to catch on at once to the momentary… — John Edensor Littlewood Copy Share Image
As far as I know, the question of whether and how it could be strategically or morally justified was never the subject of open… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
