Logic Quotes

And yet Praecursoris is not punished the same way, only because it is not practical, and he is needed for breeding?

On one side of his brain, logic was standing on a chair, waving its arms to get his attention. On the other side, lust and yearning rubbed their hands together in unholy anticipation.

You say that I'm nobody, and you agree that nobody's perfect.Based on logic, I'm a perfect person according to your opinion.

Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of 'common hatred".

If philosophy has to serve some really noble purpose, it must be more observant than critical towards life.

Which came first, the phoenix or the flame?”"...I think the answer is that a circle has no beginning.""Well reasoned.

A leaf cannot return to the bud- bluestar to fireheart and greystripe

He knew what 'I love you' meant, and he knew it was good, but he didn't understand why it was an explanation for anything.

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart.

Logic is like the sword--those who appeal to it shall perish by it.

There is no logic in logics except an illogical logic.

Persistence wears down resistance.

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls

When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.

Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.

Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible.

To Americans, either/or means both.

If you can say it... it's obvious.

Maybe we should remember that logic constructs a box that is far too small for wonder to take up residence in. Therefore, the crucial question is, ‘Will we choose to live there if wonder cannot?

You can be an expert on anything if you just use logic.

Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing interest in this" to the proposition "This is false.

[I]f God as a subject is the determined, while the quality, the predicate, is determining, then in truth the rank of the godhead is due not to the subject, but to the predicate.

My heart pounded annoyingly in my ears, and it was getting harder to stay focused. I'd almost gotten trapped in here, and now I'd come back. Sometimes I did have truly terrible ideas.

Drinking myself blind seemed like the next logical step.

The great fault of logic is that it seems so reasonable, even when it is not.

One needs to be Supernatural or Insane to defy Logic.

No man can outrun Logic or Time.

Dumb ideas come from people who have dumb brains

Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., it was something he really needed, but this just wasn't the world for it.

Think slowly like a snail, act fast like a cheetah.

Everyone have a game, everyone is playing in his own game and his own game he is the king the others are the other figures from the chess.

Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.

Does it look like I have stupid written across my forehead

There’s a dream in thespace between the hammer and the nail: the dream ofabout-to-be-hit, which is a bad dream, but the nail willtake the hit if it gets to sleep inside the wood forever.

Chaos is not the lack of order, it is merely the absence of order, that the observer is used to.

Statements don't exist by themselves. Just like people, they are in relationship with one another.

Think about it. When you die you'll be surrounded bu the people you killed. Who the hells goes around killing people they like? In the Afterdeath we'll be surrounded by our enemies.

A god that can be reduced to what reason can cope with is not a God that can be worshiped.

If one man challenges a statement and another cannot prove it, it does not necessarily follow that the statement is false.

Logic will save you when nothing else will.

Logic stays true, wherever you may go, So logic never tells you where you live.

Every barber thinks everybody needs a haircut.

Beware of logic.

You want a shadow, you got to have light and something to get in its way.

Causality is a pointless superstition. These days it would take more than one book to persuade anyone of that.

It does bear emphasis that slippery-slope arguments are notoriously invalid.

Religion equals logic... but the logic of the human mind can't perceptible it

Physical laws are ruled by logic, and are ungovernable: so when the die comes to rest on its edge, it owes neither apology nor account.

We encounter regression to the mean almost every day of our lives. We should try to anticipate it, recognize it, and not be fooled by it.

Everybody, professors and students and Proctors the same, knew that if the sign said 'do not walk on the grass', one hopped. Anybody who didn't had failed to understand what Oxford was.