Quotes About Logic

There," I said. "Decades of psycho logic picked apart in three seconds by an eleven-year-old. Take that, modern science!

Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

said that the heart has reasons that reason itself knows nothing about.

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason," I said. "Anything perceived has a cause. All conclusions have premises. All effects have causes. All actions have motives.

Jeb had always said to think with your brain, not your emotions. He'd been right, as usual. So I put all my feelings in a box and locked it.

Common sense is always more important than money or even a decent education. The problem is that you can't teach common sense.

The fourfold root of the principle of sufficient reason

I'm not a good writer, and I don't care. Unfortunately, after I left college, I didn't have time much for literature. I wish I did. Most of the time I read documents, and that's not going to help your writing. But I'm a very logical writer, and you can't get out of me. Once I've nailed you, you're finished.

It is not that I believe ideals are unimportant, even among the realities of war; but if a nation is to survive in a hostile world, its ideals must be backed by the hard logic of military practicability.

Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.

Thus, the more succinctly a train of thought was expounded, and the more comprehensive the unity of its basic idea, the closer it would approximate to the prerequisites of the mathematical way of thinking.

If particulars are to have meaning, there must be universals.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.

Faith is not a rational thing, and yet to understand the universe, rationality alone will not give it to us. Our understanding of the universe must transcend the rational.

If you're going to write time travel stories, you have to sort of figure out how does time travel work in this particular universe that I'm dealing with.

Sometime in the future, science will be able to create realities that we can't even begin to imagine. As we evolve, we'll be able to construct other information systems that correspond to other realities, universes based on logic completely different from ours and not based on space and time.

The golden thread of reason that used to be stretched taut to mark the boundary between the known and the unknown is now routinely disrespected.

The knowledge of anything, since all things have causes, is not acquired or complete unless it is known by its causes.

Women, unlike most men, are able to accept mystery, accept whatever comes to them - even if it's not logical.

There's something real in women's intuition. It's an accurate signpost for decision making, but it usually bumps up against man's logic. So we have to put ego aside and listen to them.

You don't need to make your heart and your head agree. Let your head make the decision, your heart will catch up eventually.

Women don't require motives that are comprehensible to my intellectual processes.

I have no other but a woman's reason: I think him so, because I think him so.

Its strange how some people ignore the logic just because they believe what they like to believe and ignore the truth.