Quotes About Logic

Science is a method to keep yourself from kidding yourself.

Women do not think with logic and discretion but with emotions of the heart

I believe that knowing when to leave one's employer is a critical success factor in building a career, assuming that the logic behind one's decision makes some sense.

Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all... But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination. (Nathan to Nat)

Addict logic," Yolanda said, not missing a beat. "Life viewed through resentment.

Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds. But it makes no sense to me at all. It's like saying it's your fault if I shoot you, because the gun is aiming at you. It completely disregards who's doing the aiming. But it's a popular point of view. Probably because it's so much easier. It relieves you of the burden of any and all self-examination.

Most people prefer to think that their resentment is entirely the fault of the person they resent, and that twisted logic seems to make sense in their minds.

She is so stubborn her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

Magic has a logic, like algebra. Once you get to know it, it's easy. If this, then that. You write with a pencil, you don't make frog soup with it.

often when we are in the middle of a situation and emotionally involved in it, logic and common sense disappear.

Testing the business logic inside the system under test (SUT) via the user interface is a bad idea. Even

RISK: If risks are known, good decisions require logic and statistical thinking. UNCERTAINTY: If some risks are unknown, good decisions also require intuition and smart rules of thumb.

according to rationality norms requiring only internal coherence, one can be perfectly consistent, and yet wrong about everything

El reconocimiento de marcas reduce las opciones; y para tomar la decisión final se añade el principio del segundo precio menos elevado. La base lógica es que si uno ha oído hablar de una empresa, seguramente es porque sus productos son buenos.

It doesn't matter how physically fit or tough you are, if you fail to use natures computer between your ears.

The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.

Reason needs the imagination and at the same time must transcend it because what really matters is the search for truth.

Fallacies do not cease to be fallacies because they become fashions.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found it without it.

A person who has a good nose for arguments or jokes may have a bad head for facts.

Knowing how to apply maxims cannot be reduced to, or derived from, the acceptance of those or any other maxims.

For the reason, or maxim, is inevitably a proposition of some generality. It cannot embody specifications to fit every detail of the particular state of affairs.

A concept is a brick. It can be used to build a courthouse of reason. Or it can be thrown through the window.

It is not the slumber of reason that engenders monsters, but vigilant and insomniac rationality.