Logic Quotes
You know, my Friends, with what a brave Carouse I made a Second Marriage in my house; Divorced old barren Reason from my Bed, And took the Daughter of the Vine to Spouse. For Is and Is - Not though with Rule and Line And Up - And - Down by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, I Was never deep in anything but - Wine.From the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam (Translation by Edward Fitzgerald)
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.George Steine
I know three things will never be believed - The true, the probable, and the logical.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent, chapter 2
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
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.Doctor Who
Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination.Nathan Campbell
People are unreasonable, illogical, and self - Centered. Love them anyway.Mother Theresa
Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish - world which we have developed inside us as a result of biological and psychological necessites.Sigmund Freud
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
In the mirrorlike relationship between wine and human beings, Zinfandel owned more reflective properties than any other grape; in its infinite mutability, it was capable of expressing almost any philosophical position or psychological function. As a result, its own true nature might never be known.David Darlington, from his novel Angels Visits: An Inquiry into the Mystery of Zinfandel
The idea that Bill Gates has appeared like a knight in shining armour to lead all customers out of a mire of technological chaos neatly ignores the fact that it was he, by peddling second - Rate technology, who led them into it in the first place.Douglas Adams, The Guardian
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.Carl Jung
The most beautiful as well as the most ugly inclinations of man are not part of a fixed biologically given human nature, but result from the social process which creates man.Erich Fromm
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
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 lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.George Santayana
During my eighty - Seven years I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.Bernard Mannes Baruch
If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.Vannevar Bush
To explain the unknown by the known is a logical procedure; to explain the known by the unknown is a form of theological lunacy.David Brooks
Logic is like the sword - - Those who appeal to it shall perish by it.Samuel Butle
This coffee plunges into the stomach... the mind is aroused, and ideas pour forth like the battalions of the Grand Army on the field of battle.... Memories charge at full gallop... the light cavalry of comparisons deploys itself magnificently; the artillery of logic hurry in with their train of ammunition; flashes of wit pop up like sharp - Shooters.Honore de Balzac
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
That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.F. W. Lawvere
Technological progress has merely provided us with more efficient means for going backwards.Aldous Huxley
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.Margaret Mead
Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.The Law of Thum
Exercise alone provides psychological and physical benefits. However, if you also adopt a strategy that engages your mind while you exercise, you can get a whole host of psychological benefits fairly quickly.James Rippe, M. D.
If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.Joseph Farrell
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
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.Oliver Wendell Holmes
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.Rita Mae Brown
Civilization exists by geological consent, subject to change without notice.Will Durant
Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?Winston Churchill, responding to a journalist
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.Alvin Toffle
Grammar and logic free language from being at the mercy of the tone of voice. Grammar protects us against misunderstanding the sound of an uttered name; logic protects us against what we say have double meaning.Rosenstock - Huessy
Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it.Samuel Butle
