Logic Quotes

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

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?

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 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.

In music I do not look for logic. I am quite intuitive on the whole and know no theories. I never like a work if I cannot intuitively grasp its inner unity (architecture).

Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

I think the economic logic behind dumping a load of toxic waste in the lowest wage country is impeccable and we should face up to it.

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.

Art's supposed to build logic structures.

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

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

A sharp sense of the ironic can be the equivalent of the faith that moves mountains. Far more quicky than reason or logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

What we believe is heavily influenced by what we think others believe

When we do cross paths with people whose beliefs and attitudes conflict with our own, we are rarely challenged.

Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.

If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

Fear, logic, and tradition are not going to make you live a good life when no one is looking.

Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

Life is a paradox. Every truth has its counterpart which contradicts it; and every philosopher supplies the logic his own undoing.

...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

In life two negatives don't make a positive. Double negatives turn positive only in math and formal logic. In life things just get worse and worse and worse.

Proofs exist only in mathematics and logic, not in science.

I love the sticky leaves in spring, the blue sky — that’s all it is. It’s not a matter of intellect or logic, it’s loving with one’s inside, with one’s stomach.

Infinity is a fathomless gulf, into which all things vanish.

You sell on emotion, but you justify a purchase with logic.

Art arises from sources other than logic." (p.32)

I kept looking for a logic that would explain life. It never occurred to me that instead love is the vital synthesis.

One of the most ordinary weaknesses of the human intellect is to seek to reconcile contrary principles, and to purchase peace at the expense of logic.

There is nothing that one can say about acting, writing, producing or directing that cannot be revoked in the next breath. Nothing is immutable. The logic of one year is a folly of the next.

The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul.

If a lack of empirical foundations is a defect of the theory of logical probability, it is also a defect of deductive logic.

The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic).

The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

If the music has a logic of its own - as I think my music has - an open-minded listener will apprehend and understand.

Don't rely on logic alone, nor speculation. Don't infer or be deceived by appearances.