Quotes About Logic

Computers are famous for being able to do complicated things starting from simple programs.

Today the logic goes something like this: 'Calling a ruler Son of God is out of style. No one really does that nowadays. We can support a president while also worshiping Jesus as the Son of God.' But how is this possible? For one says that we must love our enemies, and the other says we must kill them; one promotes the economics of competition, while the other admonishes the forgiveness of debts. To which do we pledge allegiance?

Irish rock star Bono has said, "Grace defies reason and logic. Love interrupts, if you like, the consequences of your actions, which in my case is very good news indeed, because I've done a lot of stupid stuff.

Bono, the lead singer of U2, said: "The idea that there's a force of love and logic behind the universe is overwhelming to start with…. But the idea that that same love and logic would choose to describe itself as a baby born in…straw and poverty is genius, and brings me to my knees, literally…. I am just in awe of that…. It's the thing that makes me a believer.

And now I could hear the music think, as I had heard it then, the unspooling of the logic of being mortal—of dying, as my best friend had, when I was nine, and my beloved, when I was sixteen. I heard, again, what loving and being loved might sound like—or I heard what some comfort for the loss of that might sound like. I heard the body and soul of death—of love and death.

I love how your Christianity only comes into play when you don't have a rational argument for something you don't like.

Since the time of Plato and Aristotle philosophers have had an interest in taking note of common fallacies in reasoning.

It is scientific only to say what is more likely and what less likely, and not to be proving all the time the possible and impossible.

The "can do" logic, by its own nature, does not accept limits. And an empire does not have a graceful way to evolve out of this role. History demonstrates this time and again.

Skibbereen have a hard time at [math]; the best that the smartest of them can do with adding two plus two is guessing: three plus one. Correct, sort of, but not always useful.

When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

Do not waste time attempting to make sense out of nonsense.

It's tough for magic to argue with physics, most of the time.

The problem with putting two and two together is that sometimes you get four, and sometimes you get twenty-two.

Let the audience put 2 and 2 together so that it comes up with 4. Let them do that themselves, and they'll love you forever.

With the Great Detective, to think was to act, and to act was to think. Frequently he could do both together.

All religions are pieced together out of elements which seem so at odds with reason that any intelligence laughs at them.

Common sense had already told her that she must not do so. But common sense sometimes seemed a dreary taskmaster.

Had he hoped, against all logic and sense, to find her broken and distraught with love for him?

The sign of a good decision is the multiplicity of reasons for it.

The logic behind magic is that we create what we are imagining.

If the world were only pain and logic, who would want it? Of course, it isn't. Neither do I mean anything miraculous, but only the light that can shine out of a life.

Worry lives a long way from rational thought.---Self