Quotes About Logic

If you decide to join up with me, I want it to be because you're making a rational choice, not because you've been pushed by passion or despair.

A ignorância é a mãe de todos os crimes, porque um crime é, antes de mais, uma falta de raciocínio.

We are approaching a new age of synthesis. Knowledge cannot be merely a degree or a skill... it demands a broader vision, capabilities in critical thinking and logical deduction without which we cannot have constructive progress.

one of the jobs of advertising was to give the consumer rational reasons for their irrational purchases.

The careful untangling of a legal issue. Like math, but with words.

Limiting institutionalization is an important decarceration strategy, but it still legitimates confinement as just one among other seemingly equal options and as such rationalizes carcerality and neutralizes its logic.

incarceration is not just a space or locale but a logic of state coercion and segregation of difference.

Theologians always try to turn the Bible into a book without common sense.

He possessed a great deal of philosophy, or of common sense that looked like it.

I would think that you are more fluent with the rational. It has its appeal. But the irrational permits a greater exercise of ... shall we say, power.

It wasn't sarcasm." Graves blew out a cloud of acrid smoke. "It was pointing out a fallacy in your logic, babe." Anna's jaw actually dropped. For a moment, I wasn't sure if I should laugh or push him out of the room. Way to go, Graves.

Chess isn't one of my favorites, it takes a cool calculating hatred to play well, and I'm not good at that.

In contrast to logic, there is common sense, or still better, the Spirit of Reasonableness.

For a Westerner, it is usually sufficient for a proposition to be logically sound. For a Chinese it is not sufficient that a proposition be logically correct, but it must be at the same time in accord with human nature.

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and reassert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

Judge Douglas declares that if any community wants slavery they have a right to have it. He can say that logically, if he says that there is no wrong in slavery; but if you admit that there is a wrong in it, he cannot logically say that anybody has a right to do wrong.

The simplest explanation is most often the correct one.

Twelve-year-olds are eager to turn everything into arguments but don't have the cognitive skills to win them.

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.

Mathematics is an ambiguous way to prove or disprove ideal behaviors of objects.

Treat mathematics as a language, not as a vocation.

Once you touch the biographies of human beings, the notion that political beliefs are logically determined collapses like a pricked balloon.

One might point to the great illumination that has resulted from Freud's analysis of the abracadabra of our dreams. No one can any longer dismiss the fantasy because it is logically inconsistent, superficially absurd, or objectively untrue.

It seems like topsy-turvyland to make reason serve the irrational. Yet that is just what it has always done, and ought always to do.