Logic Quotes
All governments suffer a recurring problem: Power attracts pathological personalities. It is not that power corrupts but that it is magnetic to the corruptable. Such people have a tendency to become drunk on violence, a condition to which they are quickly addicted.Frank Herbert, Chapterhouse Dune, Missionaria Protectiva
The natural superiority of women is a biological fact, and a socially acknowledged reality.Ashely Montagu
Young people have an almost biological destiny to be hopeful.Marshall Ganz, quoted by Sara Rimer in New York Times
Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.Stephen Jay Gould
Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?Winston Churchill, responding to a journalist
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.Laurence J. Pete
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.Aldous Huxley
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.Mother Theresa
When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bustling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.Dale Carnegie
The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.Eric Hoffe
Etymology, n.: Some early etymological scholars come up with derivations that were hard for the public to believe. The term etymology was formed from the Latin etus eaten, the root mal bad, and logy study of. It meant the study of things that are hard to swallow.Mike Kellen
I hope you become confortable with the use of logic wihout being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.Neil Armstrong, USC 2005 graduation
If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope.Jacques Cousteau
The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.Dr. Thomas Arnold Mindell
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.Margaret Mead
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.George Steine
Logic is in the eye of the logician.Gloria Steinem
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.Rodan of Alexandria
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The life of the law has not been logic but experience.Oliver Wendell Holmes
The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.Albert Einstein
Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.Frank Herbert, Dune
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.Stephen King
The Army has carried the American... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.Tom Lehre
Penicillin was indeed the product of accidental discovery, but the discovery was made, and the knowledge developed, because certain scientists had definite goals in mind. Chance, Pastuer wrote, favors only the prepared mind. The mind must be prepared not only by scientific training and technological know - How, but also by the awareness of social needs.Saturday Review
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.Will Durant
We shall continue to have a worsening ecologic crisis until we reject the Christian axiom that nature has no reason for existence save to serve man.Lynn White, Jr., "The Historical Roots of Our Ecologic Crisis", Science V. 155 No. 3767 (10 March 1967), pp. 1203 - 1207.
The great roe is a mythological beast with the head of a lion and the body of a lion, though not the same lion.Woody Allen
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.Joseph Farrell
That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.F. W. Lawvere
Scientists are the easiest to fool. They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors - - They terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.Zambendorf, _Code of the Lifemaker_ by James P. Hogan
The humorous man recognizes that absolute purity, absolute justice, absolute logic and perfection are beyond human achievement and that men have been able to live happily for thousands of years in a state of genial frailty.Brooks Atkinson
Logic is like the sword - - Those who appeal to it shall perish by it.Samuel Butle
If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle.Rita Mae Brown
If I have learnt anything, it is that life forms no logical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return.Margot Fonteyn
The beauty of religious mania is that it has the power to explain everything. Once God or Satan is accepted as the first cause of everything which happens in the mortal world, nothing is left to chance... logic can be happily tossed out the window.Stephen King
