Quotes About Logic

Applied properly, it [logic] can overcome any lack of wisdom, which one only gains through age and experience.

We live in a world with huge repositories of logic and even greater such of information-but, alas, so little wisdom.

At the heart of all sales and marketing is the ability to create demand even in the absence of logic.

Intolerance is natural and logical, for in every dissenting opinion lies an assumption of superior wisdom.

It takes extraordinary wisdom and self-control to accept that many things have a logic we do not understand that is smarter than our own.

Demonstration is also something necessary, because a demonstration cannot go otherwise than it does, ... And the cause of this lies with the primary premises/principles.

Finding patterns is the essence of wisdom

I don't profess to be profound; but I do lay claim to common sense.

It is a good thing to proceed in order and to establish propositions. This is the way to gain ground and to progress with certainty.

To the extent to which a man is rational, life is the premise directing his actions. To the extent to which he is irrational, the premise directing his actions is death.

Mathematics doesn't care about those beyond the numbers.

The causes being known, the knowledge of the effects is sure to follow.

puts the cart before the horse.

I've made the most important discovery of my life. It's only in the mysterious equation of love that any logic or reasons can be found.

The method of scientific investigation is nothing but the expression of the necessary mode of working of the human mind.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

Poetry is a form of mathematics, a highly rigorous relationship with words.

Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart

Mental' isn't a reason. It comes in an awful lot of flavors, most of them are non-violent, and every single one of them has some kind of logic, whether or not it makes sense to you and me.

It was true that he was weary after having spent the last seven days traveling from Kent to the shadowed edges of the Exmoor Forest. It was also true that the wilds of Somerset and Cornwall were said to breed wraiths and other netherworld creatures, and Dunster was right in the middle of dark and mysterious lands. But being a man of logic, Sir Gart Forbes wasn't one to believe in ghosts or phantoms or fairies. Still, he wasn't quite sure what he had seen.

Only an Atlanta girl could be so classy while doing something so hood. It was love-logic,

Western man established the initial base for an argument, defined his terms, demolished his opponent with irrefutable logic or was demolished by his own ineptitude of reasoning.

When emotions run high, logic flies out the window, and performance usually follows.

In the Principia Mathematica, Bertrand Russell and Alfred Whitehead attempted to give a rigorous foundation to mathematics using formal logic as their basis. They began with what they considered to be axioms, and used those to derive theorems of increasing complexity. By page 362, they had established enough to prove "1 + 1 = 2.