Quotes About Logic

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

Artistic tricks divert from the effect that an artist endeavors to produce, and even excellent elements such as bullets, arrows, brackets, ornate initials, are at best superficial ornamentation unless logically employed.

Fear comes from your past observations. That fear settles inside you. It becomes your psyche. Something triggers it and it fuels that subconscious. There is no logic to it.

The trouble with Reason is that it becomes meaningless at the exact point where it refuses to act.

In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.

But it is no good using the tongs of reason to pull the Fundamentalists' chestnuts out of the fire of contradiction. Their real troubles lie elsewhere.

When it is not in our power to follow what is true, we ought to follow what is most probable.

True courage is a result of reasoning. A brave mind is always impregnable.

Our best theories are not only truer than common sense, they make more sense than common sense.

It is the mark of a truly intelligent person to be moved by statistics.

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.

The truth is, man is hereunto led by reason which is his nature.

When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

Your imagination is the movie trailer for your future, so nurture it always. Logic will get you to the next level, but only imagination will take you to the level you really want to find.

Doroga thumped a finger against his skull. Head got nothing to do with the heart. Your heart wants what it wants. Head got to learn that it can only kill the heart or else get out of the way

I have a tendency sometimes to get too logical with what I'm writing, just because I want it to be kind of perfect.

I think test-driven design is great. But you can test all you want and if you don't know how to approach the problem, you're not going to get a solution.

Autism's an important part of who I am, but I'm a college professor and an animal scientist first. And I wouldn't want to change 'cause I like the logical way I think.

The first cause of Absurd conclusions I ascribe to the want of Method.

One of the advantages of being a 'reasonable creature' is that one can find a reason for whatever one wants to do.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

Moral relativism says morality is relative, not absolute, I want to show moral relativism, in its popular form, is logically incoherent.

Law is par excellence the thing that wants a reason. Now the only possible way of accounting for the laws of nature, and for uniformity in general, is to suppose them results of evolution.