Quotes About Logic

One of the things this world is finding is that emotion is the basis of reason. We really have to trust our emotions, which are much smarter than our reason in some ways.

The most formidable weapon against errors of every kind is reason.

It seems to me that if there were any logic to our language, trust would be a four letter word.

Trust is an absurd phenomenon, logically absurd. That's why logic always says love is blind, although love has its own eyes, far more deep-going...still, to logic it is blind.

Will someone please explain to me the logic that says we can trust someone with a Boeing 747 in bad weather, but not with a Glock 9mm?

What has philosophy got to do with measuring anything? It's the mathematicians you have to trust, and they measure the skies like we measure a field.

You can't trust reason. We threw it out of the ad profession long ago and have never missed it.

Logically, harmony must come from the heart... Harmony very much based on trust. As soon as use force, creates fear. Fear and trust cannot go together.

Counterintuitive actions prove we can trust real knowledge and do the opposite of what we feel makes sense.

Your trust in rationality makes you irrational.

I don't believe in empirical science. I only believe in a priori truth.

There is no such thing as truth. The only thing that is actually there is your 'logically' ascertained premise, which you call truth.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

A tautology's truth is certain, a proposition's possible, a contradiction's impossible.

Any necessary truth, whether a priori or a posteriori, could not have turned out otherwise

All the truths of mathematics are linked to each other, and all means of discovering them are equally admissible.

In many cases a dull proof can be supplemented by a geometric analogue so simple and beautiful that the truth of a theorem is almost seen at a glance.

Mathematics rightly viewed possesses not only truth but supreme beauty.

It is the hallmark of any deep truth that its negation is also a deep truth.

A few observation and much reasoning lead to error; many observations and a little reasoning to truth.

So mathematical truth prefers simple words since the language of truth is itself simple.

In design, be logical, search for truth, be clear.

The panic was sudden and complete. One minute Stuart was calmly discussing the proposed Customs and Inland Revenue Act with the Chancellor Exchequer, the next minute every last bit of his logic and rationality had deserted him. What if she'd met Michael and left already? What if she did not want to be found? The false sense of security that came from knowing where she was evaporated in a second.

Stuart did not know why, but he was vulnerable to Madame Durant's food in a way that defied all logic. While his guests reacted favorably to the courses—Marsden in particular was ecstatic—Stuart was in the middle of seismic shocks, a piece of himself coming undone with each mouthful.