Quotes About Logic

Even the most analytical thinkers are predictably irrational; the really smart ones acknowledge and address their irrationalities.

Critical thinking is the most important factor with chess. As it is in life, you need to think before you make decisions.

Most of the mistakes in thinking are inadequacies of perception rather than mistakes of logic.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

Chess can open up a kid's brain, and develop it in a playful creative way. They can learn playfully about creative, strategic, and logical thinking, and quick problem-solving.

I will live by the standard of reason, and if thinking in accordance with reason takes me to perdition, then I will go to hell with my reason rather than to heaven without it.

The more thoroughly I conduct scientific research, the more I believe that science excludes atheism.

Creationists make it sound as though a 'theory' is something you dreamt up after being drunk all night.

Man is the only animal capable of reasoning, though many others possess the faculty of memory and instruction in common with him.

You must take a definite idea, set it in the centre of your thinking, and then logically arrange your furthest thoughts in such a way that they are all closely linked with the original idea. Even if you do this for only a minute, it can be of great importance for the rhythm of the physical and etheric bodies.

Reason enables us to get around in the world of ideas, but cannot prescribe our thoughts.

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.

the skill of putting one's emotions on the shelf so as to think through solutions to problems more objectively, rationally, and logically—a skill called separation of affect—is really important. Kids who are pretty good at this skill tend to respond to problems or frustrations with more thought than emotion, and that's good.

The absence of proof does not constitute the proof of absence.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Hegel claimed that reality was essentially reason and logic – "whatever is rational is real, and whatever is real is rational".

Justice is based on reason, the truth, the facts, what is fair, not emotion.

If reason ruled the world would history even exist?

Physics is geometric proof on steroids.

The essence of mathematics is not to make simple things complicated, but to make complicated things simple.

Based on the considerations of history, ancient history, and international axioms, the logic of following up a citizen with his shadow for the purpose of the demarcation of political frontiers of any state has been discounted for international conventions. For example the Arabs cannot ask Spain just because they were there some time in the past nor can they ask for any other area outside the frontiers of the Arab homeland