Logic Quotes

Men are rather beholden ... generally to chance or anything else, than to logic, for the invention of arts and sciences.

The only hope [of science] ... is in genuine induction.

Nothing falsifies history more than logic.

Emotions are the curse of logic.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible ... the establishment defends itself by complicating everything to the point of incomprehensibility.

Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better.

Many aspects of life cannot be explained through logic or reason. The reasoning part of the mind simply doesn't have the capacity to understand the many whys and how's of being and non-being.

What the teacher does is sweep all of the logic, order and reason onto one side and make that side very strong.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

Cole chuckled, saying, “Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic.

We can't spy on them if they aren't spying on us, now can we?" Warped logic, but okay.

Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.

Oppression has no logic--just a self-fulfilling prophecy, justified by a self-perpetuating system.

I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.

The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.

If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit.]

Logic sometimes makes monsters. For half a century we have seen a mass of bizarre functions which appear to be forced to resemble as little as possible honest functions which serve some purpose.

What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

What you call intelligence and what you refer to as the Creator are not different. The Creator is pure intelligence, intelligence beyond logic.

Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion.

In the battle between logic and crazy, crazy always wins.

I think when my mother died, it was such a - you know, a shock to the logic that I had been raised with.

Faith is something that's - it's hard to articulate. It's - there's - it's not based on logic.

I can be a new Di Stefano, but I can't be a new Pelé. He is the one that goes beyond the limits of logic.

Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

Once there are good sentences on the page, I can feel a loyalty to them and start following their logic, and take refuge from myself.

Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

Fasting was good for the imagination but bad for logic.

Sketchy: I'm no stranger to stoner logic.

And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

There's no logic in how Donald Trump thinks. I don't want someone who's the president who says 3 to 5 million people voted illegally when there's zero proof. It's a crazy person.

Whamming someone smaller than oneself in order to teach that person civilized behavior is not within Miss Manners' concept of propriety, much less logic.

...it is curiosity, initiative, originality, and the ruthless application of honesty that count in research- much more than feats of logic and memory alone.

Life isn't always about logic and reasons—sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump. Particularly when it comes to relationships.

In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.

I write a lot by sound. One sound leads me to another. These sounds aren't random; they have their own logic.

Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos.

Any suggestion that science and religion are incompatible flies in the face of history, logic, and common sense.

I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

I've described my usual writing process as scrambling from peak to peak on inspiration through foggy valleys of despised logic. Inspiration is better when you can get it.

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

The fact, and the intuition or logic about the fact, are severe coordinates in fiction. In the short story they must cross with hair-line precision.

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?

It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.