Logic Quotes

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

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

What we cannot speak about we must pass over in silence.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.

Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

It ["The Ancient Mariner"] is marvellous in its mastery over that delightfully fortuitous inconsequence that is the adamantine logic of dreamland.

A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!

When the subconscious mind must chose between deeply rooted emotions and logic, emotions will almost always win.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

A God who fits within the confines of our conception is useless. God cannot be comprehended by man's conception or logic. God is an eternal being who transcends the framework of man's limited logic.

In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them.

I've never seen impeccable logic be sufficient to win both the heart and the mind.

When you're in a dark place, and your light is going to run out before too long, you get on with things. It's a wonder to me how few people apply that same logic to their lives.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

Everything has to come to an end, sometime.

People who cannot put strings of sentences together in good order cannot think. An educational system that does not teach the technology of writing is preventing thought.

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.

It would have been so pointless to kill himself that, even if he had wanted to, the pointlessness would have made him unable.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

To be against rationalization is not the same as to be opposed to reasoning.

Logic is no answer to passion.

Analogy is even slipperier than logic.

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

What we cannot express by the art of thinking, by the art of science or philosophy or logic, we can and should express by the poetic, visual, or some other arts.

For no art and no religion is possible until we make allowances, until we manage to keep quiet the enfant terrible of logic that plays havoc with the other faculties.

When distrust exists between governments, when there is a danger of war, they will not be willing to disarm even when logic indicates that disarmament would not affect military security at all.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

By abstaining from all definite content, whether as formal logic and theory of science or as the legend of Being beyond all beings, philosophy declared its bankruptcy regarding concrete social goals.

Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason.

We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.

I instinctively live. I do what I do. A lot of people live off of logic rather than emotions. I just live off of emotion.

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.

A picture whose pictorial form is logical form is called a logical picture.

God will not take shelter behind a jugglery of logic or metaphysics. He is neither a schoolman nor theologian, but our Father in Heaven.

They still believe in God, the family, angels, witches, goblins, logic, clarity, punctuation, and other obsolete stuff.