Quotes About Logic

A superstition which pretends to be scientific creates a much greater confusion of thought than one which contents itself with simple popular practices.

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.

Superstition is the irrational belief that an object or behavior has the power to influence an outcome, when there's no logical connection between them. Most of us aren't superstitious - but most of us are a 'littlestitious.'

I'm not one of those superstitious people.

I am not a superstitious person.

If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.

I never learned all the things you're not supposed to do; I just do what makes the most sense.

The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.

High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

Just as we Liberal Democrats opposed the flawed logic of that war in Iraq - we will oppose the flawed government claim that we have to surrender our fundamental rights in order to improve our security.

belief does not depend upon logic, it is a delicate and fragile flower that draws nourishment from intuition and instinct and hunch.

The more you reason the less you create.

I'm not Sherlock Holmes or Philo Vance. I don't expect to go over ground the police have covered and pick up a broken pen point and build a case from it. If you think there is anybody in the detective business making a living doing that sort of thing, you don't know much about cops.

It's the problem with having a logical mind and giving women the same credit for ability as men, he mused as he dismounted. You can't contrive reasons to keep them safe.

Seeing Tully was stung by the reference to ancient church canon long since abandoned, Kulgan softened his tone "No disrespect to you, Tully. But don't try to teach an old thief to steal. I know your order chops logic with the best of them, and that half your brother clerics fall into laughing fits when they hear those deadly serious young acolytes debate theological issues set aside a century ago. Besides which, isn't the legend of the lost art an Ishapian dogma?

In fact, I have the feeling that someday you may use that logical mind of yours for the betterment of magic.

It baffled me how people could resist math's gorgeousness, but people did, and people do. The fine of its purity drives them away, the purity of the fine, unmixed with the heaviness of unnecessitated being.

I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158)

In fact, it's the very impersonality of impersonal knowledge that renders such knowledge the most ethically potent of all.

Conclusions that philosophers first establish by way of torturous reasoning have a way, over time, of leaking into shared knowledge.

The sooner Harkness stopped walking, the sooner he could stop walking. That was the simple truth. That was logic. But something went deeper, a truer, more frightening logic. Harkness was a part of the group that Garraty was a part of, a segment of his subclan. Part of a magic circle that Garraty belonged to. And if one part of that circle could be broken, any part of it could be broken.

There was something dead in my heart. I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse. I had a dead mouse in my heart.

There was no logical reason why he did not have eggs in the house. It was just that he felt slightly uncomfortable when they were there. Also, he did not like to buy eggs. Something about the cartons put him off and he did not like the fact that they came in dozens.