Quotes About Logic

One of the biggest mistakes people make is to think that what you need to write a novel is imagination, creativity and a facility with words. Yes, you need all those things, but a novel is a highly complex organism that needs to be dealt with in quite a logical manner.

I spent most of high school working on the debate team, probably at some expense to my grades. Being a member of the team was great training in critical analysis, organization, and logic.

There may be no less original idea than the notion that our hearts hold dominion over our heads.

Science, as everyone knows, is responsible, moderate, unsentimental, and otherwise good.

He was a realist with too much fervor and not enough reverie. He always remained pragmatic in a place that had too much use for superstition. That's enough to ruin any man.

He was a realist with too much fervor and not enough reverie. He always remained pragmatic in a place that had too much use for superstition.

But the picture of when we reason best that emerges from the research is far away from the classic image of rationality - the wise scholar alone in a study. Rather, we avoid error when we reason in groups - allowing the push and pull of argumentation to get us out of holes that we'd otherwise dig ourselves into.

From principles is derived probability, but truth or certainty is obtained only from facts.

A Soulution to Rubik's Cube is not a series of individual good guesses, each surmounting move has twelve to one odds against success. It is a series of perplexed movements or algorithms that form a coherent method of returning back to it's original (correct) state.

All things happen for a reason . . . even No Reason is still a reason.

Math Problem: What does Three take away Two equal? I can prove that Three take away Two equals Two. Don't believe me? OK, you have Three apples I take away Two apples, how many apples do I have?

Translogic: A comment or statement that sounds logical and makes sense at the time it is said but when later closely examined it actually makes no sense at all.

Love is an illusion. It's nothing but a mirage. It doesn't matter how he looks on the outside, or who he is on the inside. Right now, you're convinced that you love your darling, but... try thinking about it logically.

You don't logic, man. You sheer don't logic.

On these issues, the public fib. They say they want increased spending, and in theory they do—but in practice they think someone else should pay for it. However, there it is. As I used to say, the public aren't always logical, but that's their prerogative. They do expect their government to be, nonetheless.

McKee had concluded years ago that the intricacies of feminine logic were beyond his comprehension.

Alice Gould consideró que ella era una mujer lógica para razonar mas no para sentir, y que las leyes que rigen las emociones nada tienen que ver con la sutileza de las ideas, el orden del pensamiento o el buen juicio.

A consistent theory T cannot postulate its own consistency, although the consistency of T can be postulated in another consistent theory. (An exercise for the reader: Is it possible to have a pair of consistent theories S and T such that each postulates the consistency of the other? It follows from what has been said above that the answer is no.)

Grandmother thought for a moment, and then she said that superstitious was when you didn't try to explain things that couldn't be explained.

Oh," Glory said, "well, there's a logical scientific explanation and seriously, right now you want to have this conversation?

Man is a deeply illogical being, and must be ruled illogically. Whatever that frigid prig Bentham may say, there are innumerable motives that have nothing to do with utility.

L'ordre est le plaisir de la raison; mais le désordre est le délice de l'imagination

Order is the pleasure of the reason; but disorder is the delight of the imagination.

Only fools and criminals didn't know why they did things.