Quotes About Logic

We are rational creatures: Our virtue and perfection is to love reason, or rather to love order.

Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.

When you are in love you are not wise; or, when you are wise you are not in love.

'It is love and reason,' I said, 'fleeing from all this madness of war.'

Love is hope when reason despairs.

Love isn't sensible, Red. I think that's the point.

I look upon logical proofs the way a well-bred girl looks upon a love letter

I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.

But love was strange. It distorted your perspective and played havoc with your logic.

Love makes you foolish. It makes you throw every bit of logic away, do stupid things, dangerous things.

I always like a good math solution to any love problem.

But common sense has no place in first love and never has.

It is evident as a matter of logic that, since they (world religions) disagree, not more than one of them can be true.

A computer is a stupid machine with the ability to do incredibly smart things, while computer programmers are smart people with the ability to do incredibly stupid things.

Experimentation without mathematical explanation is blind; mathematical explanation without experimentation is empty.

The sciences are sometimes likened to different levels of a tall building: logic in the basement, mathematics on the ground floor, then particle physics, then the rest of physics and chemistry, and so forth, all the way up to psychology, sociology – and the economists in the penthouse.

Consider the oft-quoted statement "the exception proves the rule." Most people take this to mean that the exception confirms the rule, though when you ask them to explain the logic in that statement, they usually cannot. After all, how can an exception prove a rule? It can't. The answer is that an earlier meaning of prove was to test (a meaning preserved in proving ground) and with that meaning the statement suddenly becomes sensible—the exception tests the rule.

Indeed, as he increasingly masters his native tongue, he tries to make it conform to more logical rules than the language itself may possess, saying "buyed," "eated," and "goed" because, even though he has never heard such words spoken, they seem more logical to him—as indeed they are, if you stopped and thinked about it.

There is something in what he said. English is a merry confusion of quirks and irregularities that often seem willfully at odds with logic and common sense.

He [Henry Ford] seldom let facts or logic challenge the certainty of his instincts

My personal savior is common sense. And as far as God goes, I prefer to believe in one that would want me to use the excellent brain he gave us all.

Of course, when you shut off your brain from rational analysis, any book is dangerous. Taking literally ancient parables from thousands of years ago is much more dangerous than playing with a loaded gun. Ancient scrawls, written by different authors in different centuries with different agendas--yeah, let's get mad literal about that . The literalness problem is compounded in religion by the circular logic of not being allowed to question anything, or else you're lacking faith.

Proof by analogy is fraud.

Always be suspicious or of course: of course is not a reason.