Quotes About Logic

We're human. We have emotions and those are sticky and confusing and rarely logical so we do stupid things.' She shrugged, and turned off the car. 'Welcome to the human race. You'll make many more mistakes before your life is done. Accept it, deal with it, and move on.

daí a alegação de que não havia regra para a completa sanidade mental.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

In other words, to put it into Euclid, or old-fashioned plane geometry, a straight line is not the shortest distance between two points.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point.

Le cæur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

The language of logical argument, of proofs,is the language of the limited self we know and can manipulate. But the language of parable and poetry, of storytelling,moves from the imprisoned language of the provable into the free language of what I must, for lack of another word, continue to call faith.

As anyone who has ever started with a high concept and then worked backward to find numbers to fit the theory knows, it is not unusual for the theory to make a lot of sense "in hindsight.

general intelligence and practical intelligence are orthogonal: the presence of one doesn't imply the presence of the other.

But remember, the logic of the inverted-U curve is that the same strategies that work really well at first stop working past a certain point, and that's exactly what many criminologists argue happens with punishment.

It's not enough to ask what successful people are like, in other words. It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

with his trademark counterintuitive logic how the habits of highly successful people pale in

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think the reason was that mathematics leaves no room for argument. If you made a mistake, that was all there was to it.

Business, to be successful, must be based on science, for demand and supply are matters of mathematics, not guesswork.

The best decisions are often those made from the creative part of your mind and not the emotional part of your heart.

There's no logical connection between being smart and having money.

Intuition is neither a feeling, an inspiration nor a disorderly sympathy but a fully developed method.

What is reason? Knowledge informed by sympathy, intelligence in the arms of love.

The moving power of mathematical invention is not reasoning but imagination.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

I now believe truth lies not in logic but in hope, both past and future. I believe hope can surprise you. It can survive the odds against it, all sorts of contradictions, and certainly any skeptic's rationale of relying on proof through fact.

How can I argue with someone who makes no sense?

I now believe truth lies not in logic but in hope, both past and future. I believe hope can surprise you. It can survive the odds against it, all sorts of contradictions, and certainly any skeptic's rationale on relying on proof through fact.

The duality which you divine is the despair, the bankruptcy of logic and philosophy; it is the illusion which holds the human planetary system together.