Logic Quotes

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...

I expected, as I approached the corporate world, to enter a brisk, logical, nonsense-free zone, almo...

The most flattering spin I can put on this phase of paradoxes and metaphysical tangles is that I was...

In fact, the idea of a God who is both all-powerful and all good is a logical impossibility.

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

If our logic is to find the common world intelligible, it must not be hostile, but must be inspired ...

Ever since Plato most philosophers have considered it part of their business to produce ‘proofs’ of ...

The world of being is unchangeable, rigid, exact, delightful to the mathematician, the logician, the...

So,” Marasi said, “you traded a dead man’s scarf for another dead man’s gun. But…the gun itself belo...

Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen's voice whispered. She ignored it.

Reason like a sphere? What type of reasoning does a wooden sphere do?""The circular type, I should t...

So... wait. You're saying that on the other side―where I obviously believed in the other side―I real...

Chana knows, I wondered sometimes how I raised that child without strangling her. By age six, [Jasna...

[The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the unive...

Of course, there is no conceivable way of getting by reason from the proposition "I am losing intere...

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in...

An open mind, in questions that are not ultimate, is useful. But an open mind about the ultimate fou...

The heart never takes the place of the head: but it can, and should, obey it.

I try not to think with my gut. If I'm serious about understanding the world, thinking with anything...

It is certainly true that all beliefs and all myths are worthy of a respectful hearing. It is not tr...

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

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as...

Panentheistic doctrine contains all of deism and pandeism except their arbitrary negations.

Some persons fancy that bias and counter-bias are favorable to the extraction of truth–that hot and ...

The belief that rational and quantifiable disciplines such as science can be used to perfect human s...

I'm very depressed how in this country you can be told "That's offensive" as though those two words ...

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

Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor i...

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emo...

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures b...

Painting is so poetic, while sculpture is more logical and scientific and makes you worry about grav...

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. ...

Disputes with men, pertinaciously obstinate in their principles, are, of all others, the most irksom...

How can we satisfy ourselves without going on in infinitum? And, after all, what satisfaction is the...

This meaning-argument is of a very different kind from the arguments I have been speaking about so f...

This isn't a reasoned response to a configuration of stars, but the heart cannot flourish on logic a...

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic...

Now, me lord, you know you oughtn’t talk like that at this hour of the morning. Yougot to pardon his...

But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

Now logic is a wonderful thing but it has, as the process of evolution discovered, certain drawbacks...

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

It seemed to me,' said Wonko the Sane, 'that any civilization that had so far lost its head as to ne...

Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have...

Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as ...

The idea was fantastically, wildly improbable. But like most fantastically, wildly improbable ideas ...

A doctor, a logician and a marine biologist had also just arrived, flown in at phenomenal expense fr...

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported...

We loved with a love that was more than love.

In the strange anomaly of my existence, feelings with me had never been of the heart, and my passion...

A magical universe was so terrifying because it was so irrational. There was no cause and effect any...

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is Californ...

Science attempts to find logic and simplicity in nature. Mathematics attempts to establish order and...

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

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see some...

There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are...