Logic Quotes

No human investigation can claim to be scientific if it doesn't pass the test of mathematical proof.

Go force your condescending man-logic on the next house. You can go now.

Our punning minds rejoin what logic has separated.

The machine has no feelings, it feels no fear and no hope ... it operates according to the pure logic of probability. For this reason I assert that the robot perceives more accurately than man.

In war it is necessary to kill as many people as possible -- such is the cynical logic of war. Brutality in a fight is unavoidable; have you seen how cruelly children fight in the streets?

Love puts all logic to sleep. Otherwise, we wouldn't risk it.

Either I've invented a whole new logic or, ahem, I'm not playing with a full deck.

The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

Logic is a feeble reed, friend.

Arguments cannot be answered by personal abuse; there is no logic in slander, and falsehood, in the long run, defeats itself.

Logic presumes a separation of subject from object; therefore logic is not final wisdom.This is Zen. This is my motorcycle maintenance.

We must have safe places where people can discuss and be treated. Forty-four million people are already dead from AIDS. What logic is there in not discussing the word?

The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.

Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.

Some people really live and work within the same doctrine, the same diagram with the same logic.

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

the squeeky wheel gets the grease.

Peaceful disputes are maintained when men sincerely believe that they are morally, logically correct about the issues at hand. It is when neither side is really certain that wars are instigated.

Put a man on the brink of the abyss and - in the unlikely event that she doesn't fall into it - he will become a mystic or a madman... Which is probably the same thing!

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality.

Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

The logic behind patriotism is a mystery. At least a man who believes that his own family or clan is superior to all others is familiar with more than 0.000003% of the people involved.

There are no things man was not meant to know. There are, perhaps, things man is too dumb to figure out, but that's a different problem.

I think about stories and their logic and wonder if there can be any such thing as simply "there is a book.

If reason ruled the world would history even exist?

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

...but that was the thing about reality. It didn't need to make sense.

In some peculiar way, indeed, the rules were now beginning to seem quite logical. It was then I knew that I had been in India long enough.

Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.

It's remarkable the logic we'll build around a misapprehension.

I know when something is too important to be decided by logic.

World domination is such an ugly phrase. I prefer to call it world optimisation.

There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.

If it doesn't make sense, it's usually not true.

Logic is what the devil likes most.

You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.

I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

Eventually we will all wither and die in the wasteland of logic and science.

There was no logic or any sense of purpose except that I knew I had to do something other than what I was doing, or I might not make it through this.

Logic was puny in the face of my wrath. Logic was puny and magic was mighty: I had just gotten rebirthed, refilled and renewed, and was fast on my way to resentful.

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

You need a long hard day's work to reveal the logic of the craving for very bad tv and alcohol.

If we accept the logic of the Declaration, reverence for God is not just a matter of religious faith, it is the foundation of justice and citizenship in our republic.

A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

I never thought that others would take my theories so much more seriously than I did.

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?