Logic Quotes

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

It is always easy to be logical. It is almost impossible to be logical to the bitter end.

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason.

A painting is more than the sum of its parts

Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.

Fear is the enemy of logic.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

The enormous usefulness of mathematics in the natural sciences is something bordering on the mysterious and there is no rational explanation of it.

Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.

The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

Is it my business if somebody wants to burn a flag?...No, it's not...That's called logic and it'll help us all evolve.

A land ethic for tomorrow should...stress the oneness of our resources and the live-and-help-live logic of the great chain of life.

It's hard to find logic in things sometimes. That's why I can't analyze things too much, because it often doesn't make much sense.

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

Forever I shall be a stranger to myself. In psychology as in logic, there are truths but no truth.

Calculus works by making visible the infinitesimally small.

No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

Oh dear,' says God, 'I hadn't thought of that,' and promptly vanishes in a puff of logic.

Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices.

Those philosophers who believe in the absolute logic of truth have never had to discuss it on close terms with a woman.

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

I don't believe in ghosts, or fairies, or crystals, or unicorns, or a man that can walk on water, or any of that non sense, I personally rely on logic, and have for the better part of my life.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

Yes, that's right... love should come before logic ... Only then will man come to understand the meaning of life.

Logic should no longer be considered an elegant and learned accomplishment; it should take its place as an indispensable study for every well-informed person.

But logic is not all, one needs one's heart to follow an idea.

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

Why don't they teach logic at these schools?

My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

There is no way to use non-Christian language and logic to arrive at Christian utterances, conclusions, and behavior.

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.