Quotes About Logic

So now, having learned from machines, organizations are applying the same logic to people. Letting people in the organization use their best judgment turns out to be faster and cheaper—but only if you hire the right people and reward them for having the right attitude.

Intellectually, we may appreciate that loving ourselves would give us a firm foundation but for most of us this is a leap of logic, not a leap of the heart.

been illogically arrived at; it had not; but the logic, such as it was, was based insubstantially on hope.

Here is my lens. You know my methods.

I would guess, perhaps too optimistically, that nearly ever racist believes it is morally wrong to be racist. And since nearly every person thinks of themselves as being moral, then a racist must consciously and subconsciously employ tortured logic in order to explain away their racism--in order to believe themselves to be nonracist.

If I want to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube. ~ Acheron, a character.

If I wanted to play mind games, I'd buy a Rubik's cube

Unfortunately, the heart played its own tune, and it was deaf to what the head tried to tell it.' – Abigail

It'll probably be brutal, too. They might even feed you to the dog. He doesn't have a dog. Yeah, well, he might get one just to feed you to it. She'd never been the kind of person to let something as ridiculous as rational logic interfere with her fear.' (Alix)

Sane people played by the rules. They looked for rational explanations and solutions in an insane universe.

Why is the wolf always the one who's drafted?" – Sasha "The wolf is the one who is most rested." – Choo Co La Tah "What? You want to toss logic into my emotional outburst? Where's the fairness of that?" - Sasha

Does this rationale make sense to you? (Syd) That's Jack-Logic. It makes total sense. (Steele)

Keep your voice down. And before you go all badass cop on me, I'm the one who saved your life outside. (Nathan) How do I know that? (Terri) Let's use some logic. You stuck your head in here. Someone tried to use it for target practice, but I yanked you away before you ended up headless. If I was the shooter, you'd be dead now and we wouldn't be having this conversation. (Nathan)

Fischer, the great American chess champion, famously said, 'Chess is life.' I would say, 'Pi is life.'

Reality trumps rationality.

The basic science is not physics or mathematics but biology -- the study of life. We must learn to think both logically and bio-logically.

Music is largely psychic. It is a feeling. It is not logical. It is a feeling - Art, life, why we live - feelings.

There are people who just can't handle life because they've thrown away too much of their reason.

The problem is all inside your head, she said to me The answer is easy if you take it logically I'd like to help you in your struggle to be free There must be fifty ways to leave your lover.

... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone.

Unreasonable is very relative.

Evolution is amoral. Just because something is natural doesn't make it morally good ("the naturalistic fallacy"). Conversely, just because something is morally desirable doesn't make it true ("the moralistic fallacy").

In the past, when people criticized me for asking unexpected questions, I felt ashamed. Now I realize that normal people are acting in a superficial and often false manner. So rather than let them make me feel bad, I express my annoyance. It's my way of trying to strike a blow for logic and rationality.

It must be my logical consideration of a decision many see as purely intuitive or emotional that throws other people for a loop.