Quotes About Logic

A friend of mine used to quote Sherlock Holmes a lot. I don't remember the exact words, but it warned that you shouldn't theorize before you have facts because then you twist facts to suit theories rather than the other way around. In short, we don't know enough.

Occam's razor. It states - that the simplest explanation is usually the right one.

Logic is never linear. It dashes to and fro and bounces off walls and makes hairpin turns and gets lost during detours. Anything can be a catalyst, usually something unrelated to the task at hand, ricocheting your thoughts into an unexpected direction—a direction that inevitably leads to a solution linear thinking could never have approached.

but it seems logical to me that a church should exist for those who need its help, and not for those who by their own profession are so good already that it is they who help the church.

So far nothing in your life has interfered with your reasoning process.

But the white supremacists fear reason, because they know cold reason beats them. Prejudice, a dirty word, and faith, a clean one, have something in common: they both begin where reason ends.

Çirkin bir sözcük olan önyarg? ile tertemiz bir sözcük olan inanc?n ortak bir noktas? var : Her ikisi de mant???n bittiÄŸi yerde baÅŸlar.

Le préjugé - un terme péjoratif - et la foi - un terme noble - ont quelque chose en commun : ils commencent tous les deux où la raison s'arrête.

most of the ways in which we know how to engineer change…are not effective. Given a…logical problem to solve, we are superb… But…the fundamental premises are different, which means that our logic is without power.

The doctrines of egalitarianism and of sufficiency are logically independent: considerations that support the one cannot be presumed to provide support also for the other.

Women! They insist on mixing everything up together. Perhaps they operate better that way, but it is very hard on those of us who find that keeping emotion and logic separate produces sounder thinking.

Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and logic. She captured words in a dream, like delicately catching hold of a butterfly's wings as it flutters around. Artists are those who can evade the verbose.

People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and in some cases distorts your logic.

But still, Ayumi said, it seems to me that this world has a serious shortage of both logic and kindness. You may be right, Aomame said, But it's too late to trade it in for another one.

Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.

What do I like about math? , When I've got figures in front of me, it relaxes me. Kind of like, everything fits where it belongs.

Principles and logic didn't give birth to reality. Reality came first, and the principles and logic followed.

Necessity is an independent concept. It has a different structure from logic, morals, or meaning. Its function lies entirely in the role it plays. What doesn't play a role shouldn't exist. What necessity requires does need to exist. That's what you call dramaturgy.

It is very difficult to logically explain the illogical.

People need routines. It's like a theme in music. But it also restricts your thoughts and actions and limits your freedom. It structures your priorities and some cases distorts your logic.

He was the type of man who had his own sense of logic and reached his own conclusions without regard to the opinions of others.

Reason is the illusion of reality

To hold fast the positive in the negative, in the content of the presupposition, in the result, this is the most important feature in rational cognition.

When we look at the world rationally, the world looks rationally back.