Quotes About Logic

But Athena had no babe, and she never would. Her only love was reason. And that has never been the same as wisdom.

Ultramarine is not, of course, holy in and of itself. (What is?) It had to be made holy, by the wicked logic that renders the expensive sacred.

Faith... must be enforced by reason.... When faith becomes blind it dies.

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.

that you have three of the most important virtues a policeman can have," he thought. "You are stubborn and logical, and completely calm.

La única forma lógica de servir a la «fuerza» primigenia era mediante el «proceso». La idea consistía en contribuir a impulsar el proceso hasta el último objetivo de la fuerza: la homogeneidad cultural, política, social y económica de las naciones de la Tierra.

La primera parte, aumentada en 7, la segunda disminuida en 7, la tercera multiplicada por 7 y la cuarta divida por 7 darán el mismo resultado; vean: 7 + 7 = 14 21 – 7 = 14 2 x 7 = 14 98 : 7 = 14

Colocar diez soldados en cinco filas de modo que cada fila tenga cuatro soldados. El problema, de apariencia complicada, tiene una solución muy sencilla indicada en la figura en la que aparecen cinco filas de cuatro soldados cada una.

I want to convince you that these kinds of personal explanations of success don't work. People don't rise from nothing....It is only by asking where they are from that we can unravel the logic behind who succeeds and who doesn't.

The evolutionary logic of team aggression is to kill as many members of the outgroup as possible, at as minimum risk to yourself as possible.

Dialectic, she says, describes the rational discussion between those who hold conflicting positions, to find resolution and deduce the truth through the disciplines of logic and reason. Rhetoric, meanwhile, is the art of persuasion. It makes use of invention, arrangement, delivery and style. Therefore, can the delivery and style of rhetoric take precedence over truth?

But you have to reason it out then and convince yourself. - Yes, but there are reasons of the heart that reason doesn't encompass.

Yo creo que el mundo olvida hasta qué punto vivimos apoyados en lo desconocido. Hemos organizado una existencia lógica sobre un pozo de misterios

Thenceforth they thought that, rationally concluded, doubt could become an instrument of knowledge.

Identifier le bonheur lorsqu'il est à ses pieds, avoir le courage et la détermination de se baisser pour le prendre dans ses bras... et le garder. C'est l'intelligence du coeur. L'intelligence sans celle du coeur ce n'est que de la logique et ça n'est pas grand chose.

I consider logic to be like a roundhouse kick: limited in use and effectiveness, predictable, easy to defend against, and just generally tired from being overused.

Reason is the first casualty in a drought.

For, since a purely musical work contains none of those logical sequences, the interruption or confusion of which, in spoken or written language, is a proof of insanity, so insanity diagnosed in a sonata seemed to him as mysterious a thing as the insanity of a dog or a horse, although instances may be observed of these.

Madness is a distrust of reason.

God gave you a brain and a heart. The heart is warm, but your wits must be cold.

Logic is often cast aside, when fear and superstition run unchecked,' my friend said.

a reigning logic of efficiency insists that money spent on the public good is somehow a form of indulgence. There

Sherlock Holmes and that whole Holmes thing—that once you've eliminated the impossible, then whatever remains, must be the truth. What Holmes never admitted was that there is a vast universe of the possible, and sorting through all the possibilities is often impossible.

That seems reasonable," Lucas said, because it was.