Logic Quotes

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

The logic now in use serves rather to fix and give stability to the errors which have their foundation in commonly received notions than to help the search for truth. So it does more harm than good.

It is well known that the central problem of the whole of modern mathematics is the study of transcendental functions defined by differential equations.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

you can’t use logic on human behavior.

Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.

Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but not with a Glock 9mm?

Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

A skeptic is one who is willing to question any truth claim, asking for clarity in definition, consistency in logic, and adequacy of evidence.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

Common sense is not really so common. The Art of Thinking: Port-Royal Logic

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

Perhaps the most surprising thing about mathematics is that it is so surprising.

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

Dreaming is the opportunity to hold a citizenship in two worlds, equally real but with different logic and limitations.

All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

The world of shabby gentility is like no other; its sacrifices have less logic, its standards are harsher, its relation to reality is dimmer than comfortable property or plain poverty can understand.

How very wet this water is.

Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.

There is room for words on subjects other than last words.

Shop often, shop hard, and spend for the best stuff available - logic dictates that you can make delicious food only with delicious ingredients.

there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible.

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.

Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight

Logic has virtually nothing to do with the way we think.

Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.

seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.

The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.

(He was) a fragile hero to whom we had an emotional attachment so strong and lasting that it defied logic.

The line must follow some direction of policy, whether rooted in logic or experience. Lines should not be drawn simply for the sake of drawing lines.

I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention which logic one adopts. I disagree with this view.

The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.