Logic Quotes

The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

... the laws of physics and of logic ... the number system ... the principle of algebraic substitution. These are ghosts. We just believe in them so thoroughly they seem real.

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with everyday observation.

Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears.

The logic of a madman is a sane man's confusion.

Almost all thinking people agree that you should not have probability 1 (or 0) for any event, other than one demonstrable by logic, like 2 x 2 = 4.

Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.

The school was prone to dishing out punishments for anything creative that didn't fit with expectation - I just followed the logic and figured the folk club was probably much the same.

Aristotelian logic is massive and marmoreal, but every monument accumulates graffiti.

I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

ALGEBRA is a general Method of Computation by certain Signs and Symbols which have been contrived for this Purpose, and found convenient.

We call infinite that thing whose limits we have not perceived, and so by that word we do not signify what we understand about a thing, but rather what we do not understand.

Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'

Forgotten were the elementary rules of logic, that extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence and that what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed without evidence.

Logic ridicules love, and love smiles knowingly at the whole foolishness of logic.

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

Reason also is choice.

Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason.

The will of man is by his reason swayed.

The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].

Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.

Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.

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 logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.

The advantage is that mathematics is a field in which one's blunders tend to show very clearly and can be corrected or erased with a stroke of the pencil.

The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.

With laissez-faire and price atomic, ecology's uneconomic, But with another kind of logic economy's unecologic.

The pedant and the priest have always been the most expert of logicians - and the most diligent disseminators of nonsense and worse.

Logic never attracts men to the point of carrying them away.

A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?

Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.

I enjoy logic and logic puzzles. And filmmaking is one fun logic puzzle that you gotta win.

You have a point," said Fronto, "and even a poet must occasionally bow to logic.

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements in the brain of a bewildered ape?

Art's supposed to build logic structures.

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 do it.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

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.

We can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.

Logic , like lyrical poetry , is no employment for the middle-aged