Quotes About Logic

When people are afraid, they make emotional decisions.

Chopin's rubato possessed an unshakeable emotional logic. It always justified itself by a strengthening or weakening melodic line, by exaggeration or affectation.

I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.

Sustained change only happens when we shift at an emotional rather than logical level.

Observations always involve theory.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

For nothing ought to be posited without a reason given, unless it is self-evident (literally, known through itself) or known by experience or proved by the authority of Sacred Scripture.

Law is experience developed by reason and applied continually to further experience.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

There is no morality by instinct. There is no social salvation in the end without taking thought; without mastery of logic and application of logic to human experience.

If ... the past may be no Rule for the future, all Experience becomes useless and can give rise to no Inferences or Conclusions.

RATIONAL, adj. Devoid of all delusions save those of observation, experience and reflection.

Anything that contradicts experience and logic should be abandoned.

No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.

The process of induction is the process of assuming the simplest law that can be made to harmonize with our experience.

Never confuse faith, or belief — of any kind — with something even remotely intellectual.

That which enters the mind through reason can be corrected. That which is admitted through faith, hardly ever.

Faith is reason grown courageous.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

Unshakable faith is only that which can face reason in all human epochs.

Without the voice of reason, every faith is its own curse.

Faith is not the opposite of reason. Faith rests squarely upon reason, but with the added component of revelation.

It is a mysterious thing, the loss of faith-as mysterious as faith itself. Like faith, it is ultimately not rooted in logic; it is a change in the climate of the mind.