Logic Quotations

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

Pain always produces logic, which is very bad for you.

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

I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

John Gilbert was perfectly willing to jump into talkies. He had as good a voice as Clark Gable. There was such a divide between the silent and talkies. There was no logic to who survived and who didn't.

The story is a machine for empathy. In contrast to logic or reason, a story is about emotion that gets staged over a sequence of dramatic moments, so you empathize with the characters without really thinking about it too much. It is a really powerful tool for imagining yourself in other people's situations.

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

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

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Fairy tales, because they have a very clear structure, are easier to interfere with. Also they have this really weird logic: the kind of logic that you only really experience when youre not feeling very well, or as a child.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

There's a certain logic to avoiding the haters, but as a strategy, it's utterly flawed. When you turn off the feedback, you lose the benefits as well as the drawbacks. It's like having a sore finger and cutting off your arm.

We can know that the Christian God cannot exist. If he is all-powerful and all-good, as Christians maintain, there would not have been, for instance, the Holocaust. This is an inherent self-contradiction. So if Christians insist on having a God, they can do so, but if they have any respect for logic they'll have to redefine who he is.

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it's supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

If I was influenced by anything, it was architecture: structure having to do with logic. If you don't do it right, the whole thing is going to cave in. In a certain sense, you can carry that to graphic design. Fortunately, however, nobody is going to die if you do it wrong.

I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.

The cosmic game changed forever in 1992. Before then, logic told us that there had to be other planets besides the nine (if you still count poor Pluto) in our solar system, but until that year, when two astronomers detected faint, telltale radio signals in the constellation Virgo, we had no hard evidence of their existence.

I'm just sick of the way things are. We're in an age in which we can't live without accepting the logic of the market. Contemporary politics is all about short-term pragmatism. We have abandoned religion and philosophy... What we have left is the automatisation of doing what the market tells us.

You have to play the logic of a character.

With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind.

Logic has made me hated in the world.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?

I have a massive divide between being a competent human being and being completely hopeless, when it comes to logic.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

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.

I don't remember my dreams too much. I hardly have ever gotten ideas from nighttime dreams. But I love daydreaming and dream logic and the way dreams go.

Don't assume that all fat people are gluttons. And don't use the word 'fat.' There is a principle here. Learn from logic and experience not to associate things - especially in preaching - that don't necessarily go together.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up its logic in order to check its accuracy, you find confirmation or denial in the object itself or in your memory of it.

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

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

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.

I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

I mean, I've had bartenders and waiters and waitresses make a comment about a joke of mine, like pointing out some sort of logic error or something that I've never even thought about, and they're right.

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.

My first Kickstarter project created a book called 'Clear and Present Thinking', a college-level textbook on logic and critical reasoning, which was made available to the world for free. As a professor myself, I observed that the price of textbooks was too high for some of my students.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

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

Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.

Sometimes a faint voice based on instinct resonates far more strongly than overpowering logic.

Turin is a city which entices a writer towards vigor, linearity, style. It encourages logic, and through logic it opens the way towards madness.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

I found out I had a real love for comedy and comedy writing. The logic was, there weren't too many female comedians, so I thought I might as well try a field that had fewer competitors than the field I was in, which was acting, singing and dancing.

I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

It's a little bit like my inability to read a guide book before I go anywhere. I can read it after I've been there and by the same logic I refuse to accept any technical stunts from anybody. I refused to learn more than I knew and I confess I missed a great deal.

Mitt Romney subscribes to the cynical logic that says the American dream belongs to some of us but not all of us.

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

We need the help of other member countries and leaders who, like us, want to see a change in Europe's direction. That's also my logic when I tell voters that electing me president will not only shape France's future, but also initiate change across all of Europe.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic on which one has to walk in order not to make a mistake in predicting what will happen. The quantum mechanical and the relativity ideas are examples of this.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.

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

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Let's assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for Lincoln and one for Washington - as we used to do, before we became so concerned with the 'Every President Gets a Trophy' ethos?

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

It isn't often that the logic behind a policy is so clear. But when it comes to the value of educating girls, the evidence speaks for itself.

The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason.

How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!

Do not hide behind utopian logic which says that until we have the perfect security environment, nuclear disarmament cannot proceed. This is old-think. This is the mentality of the Cold War era. We must face the realities of the 21st century. The Conference on Disarmament can be a driving force for building a safer world and a better future.

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

What I like about the jokes, to me it's a lot of logic, no matter how crazy they are. It has to make absolute sense, or it won't be funny.

There's a logic today that places a greater value on celebrity the less it is accompanied by actual achievement. I don't think it's possible to touch people's imagination today by aesthetic means.

No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

'Bum's Rush' is a piece about timing, and everything that's in the piece needs to be with the piece. If people are missing, or marking, or unable to use their voices, the impulses that prompt the action are lost, and its logic crumbles.

I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.

There is no question to enter into the logic of quotas,

There is no logic to supporting the King. He has done a travesty to democracy.

There is no logic for the staff's position. Somebody needs to show me where those roads will connect.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

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

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

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

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.

Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.

There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

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

If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

With WWF, Microsoft will let programmers isolate process logic and business rules as they create composite applications.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?