Logic Quotes

It’s whatever the majority deems it to be. It’s not necessarily the best or the most logical, but it...

It's difficult to know where to begin, sir.''Yes, the beginning is the tricky part. But perhaps ther...

It is one of the greatest Curses visited upon Mankind, he told me, that they shall fear where no Fea...

Everybody knows that Aristotelian two-value logic is fucked.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very ...

I suppose therefore that all things I see are illusions; I believe that nothing has ever existed of ...

And thus, the actions of life often not allowing any delay, it is a truth very certain that, when it...

Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hop...

Consideration doth, as it were, open the door between the head and the heart: the understanding havi...

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, a...

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

For millennia philosophers and saints have tried to reason out a logical scheme for the universe... ...

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can’t reason without them.

If you can’t define something you have no formal rational way of knowing that it exists. Neither can...

Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligibl...

The real purpose of the scientific method is to make sure Nature hasn't misled you into thinking you...

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

The self is the class (not the collection) of the experiences (or autopsychological states). The sel...

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion...

If reason ruled the world would history even exist?

Becoming a part of a movement doesn't help anybody think clearly.

Needless to say, there are people who hate Arabs, Somalis, and other immigrants from predominantly M...

If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should ...

As many critics of religion have pointed out, the notion of a creator poses an immediate problem of ...

Faith is the mortar that fills the cracks in the evidence and the gaps in the logic, and thus it is ...

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a ci...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

I knew from experience that no matter how much you turn things in your head, trying to make sense of...

Annie clouded up. For a second, he thought she was going to erupt, and flinched. She saw that...and ...

One can accomplish something only so long as one cannot accomplish everything.

If chess has any relationship to film-making, it would be in the way it helps you develop patience a...

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

Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reas...

The facts of nature are what they are, but we can only view them through the spectacles of our mind....

What do you think science is? There's nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way f...

The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerce...

Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies,...

Captain Vimes believed in logic, in much the same way as a man in a desert believed in ice -- i.e., ...

Questions don't have to make sense, Vincent," said Miss Susan. "But answers do.

*There is only one God*. Whatever exists is *ipso facto* individual; to be one it needs no extra pro...

For every relationship involves two related terms. Sometimes relationships are not real in either te...

Causes of individuals presuppose causes of the species, which are not univocal yet not wholly equivo...

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the ...

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, t...

We seem to inhabit a universe made up of a small number of elements-particles-bits that swirl in cha...

Logic only gives man what he needs,” he stammered. “Magic gives him what he wants.

The highest function of love is that it makes the loved one a unique and irreplaceable being.

There's no point in saving the world if it means losing the moon.

I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity ...

Almost everything carried to its logical extreme becomes either depressing or carcinogenic.

The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of log...

What does the brain matter compared with the heart?

Logical reasoning may be a most convenient means of mental communication for covering short distance...

A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

I, therefore, for one, cannot see my way to accepting the agnostic rules for truth-seeking, or wilfu...

All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.

What is the purpose of reason, Richard Parker? Is it no more than to shine at practicalities - the g...

I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a min...

I'm like a machine being run over its RPM limit. The bearings are overheating: a minute longer and t...

The only reason I'm writing this down is to show how human reason, even very sharp and exact human r...

She was a logical child, as far as children go. She did not understand how such a nice, kind, good G...

When people attempt to rebel against the iron logic of Nature, they come into conflict with the very...

Everything must be taken into account. If the fact will not fit the theory---let the theory go.

For the artist himself art is not necessarily therapeutic; he is not automatically relieved of his f...

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

There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined.

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

We men of intelligence will learn to harness the insanities of reason. We can't leave the world any ...

Wherever a choice has had to be made between the man of reason and the madman, the world has unhesit...

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

Here is the tragedy of theology in its distilled essence: The employment of high-powered human intel...

Theologians, and religionists in general, start with a fantasy premise and then proceed to apply rig...

She plays chess from the passions and I play it from logic and she usually wins. Once, I took her qu...

Consequently, if you believe God made Satan, you must realize that all Satan's power comes from God ...

A singer can shatter glass with the proper high note," he said, "but the simplest way to break glass...

I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with signific...

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

For he who lives as passion directs will not hear argument that dissuades him, nor understand it if ...

The cheese-mites asked how the cheese got there, And warmly debated the matter; The Orthodox said th...

Now, Watson," said he, "we have picked up two clues this morning. One is the bicycle with the Palmer...

Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most o...

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the t...

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

Holmes,” I cried, “this is impossible.” “Admirable!” he said. “A most illuminating remark. It IS imp...

There were no footmarks.''Meaning that you saw none?''I assure you, sir, that there were none.''My g...

I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.

It is easy to understand that in the dreary middle ages the Aristotelian logic would be very accepta...

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have...

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification...

I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reas...

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts...

There's a wonderful, perhaps apocryphal story that people tell about Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the br...