Logic Quotes
Mothers are a biological necessity; fathers are a social invention.Margaret Mead
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
Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.H. L. Mencken
Are you insinuating that I am a purveyor of terminological inexactitudes?Winston Churchill, responding to a journalist
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions.David Borenstein
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
Somebody who thinks logically is a nice contrast to the real world.The Law of Thum
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.Blaise Pascal
Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.Alvin Toffle
Human beings are not condemned, because of their biological constitution, to annihilate each other or to be at the mercy of a cruel, self - Inflicted fate.Albert Einstein
The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it.Eric Hoffe
It is not the literal past that rules us, save, possibly, in a biological sense. It is images of the past.George Steine
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
I know three things will never be believed - The true, the probable, and the logical.John Steinbeck, The Winter of our Discontent, chapter 2
That orgy of wishful thinking that has passed for logic in the present century.F. W. Lawvere
If the world were a logical place, men would ride sidesaddle.Rita Mae Brown
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 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
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.David Russell
A page of history is worth a pound of logic.Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
Logic is in the eye of the logician.Gloria Steinem
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)
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
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
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.La Rochefoucauld
Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.Irving Layton
You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.Gilbert Keith Chesterton
All true wealth is biological.Lois McMaster Bujold, Memory
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
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
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
Between the amateur and the professional... there is a difference not only in degree but in kind. The skillful man is, within the function of his skill, a different psychological organization... A tennis player or a watchmaker or an airplane pilot is an automatism but he is also criticism and wisdom.Bernard De Voto
Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.Rodan of Alexandria
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 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
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
