Quotes About Logic

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Reason is immortal, all else mortal.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Law is mind without reason.

If we would guide by the light of reason we must let our minds be bold.

You reason color more than you reason drawing... Color has a logic as severe as form.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

Hear reason, or she'll make you feel her.

Reason is a harmonising, controlling force rather than a creative one.

Reason gains all people by compelling none.

All that is real is reasonable, and all that is reasonable is real.

Well, many insane people and seriously mentally ill people seem very reasonable.

I've always thought things were absurd. It would take a lot more effort for me to see things as reasonable.

I don't think the process of writing books is in any way sensible. It's not logical, and it's not reasonable. I do write very fast, and I just do it in a binge. Other people binge-drink; I binge-write.

In order to reason, you need a network to be able to bring in knowledge from several different areas, such as math, science, and philosophy, to reach reasonable conclusions on what it's been tasked with.

You can only argue with reasonable people.

There is little anyone can do with fanatics. Reasoning with them is a fool's errand. Avoiding them is mandatory.

People mistakenly assume that their thinking is done by their head; it is actually done by the heart which first dictates the conclusion, then commands the head to provide the reasoning that will defend it.

To say that man is a reasoning animal is a very different thing than to say that most of man's decisions are based on his rational process. That I don't believe at all.

Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument.

What we showed you was you can have analytic reasoning that can be passionate.

Making the leap from Monsanto's business practices - whatever you may think of them - to the 'dangers' of GM foods is a mistake in logical reasoning. It is akin to saying landscape paintings are potentially evil because the painter was a serial killer.

If you step back a little and say we want to do A.I., then you will realize that A.I. needs knowledge, reasoning, and explanation.

Economics comes easily to me, and we all seek out what we do well in life. I had in mind becoming a businessman. And I was good at logic and reasoning; figures were comfortable inside my head.