Quotes About Logic

No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

The scientist believes in proof without certainty.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

Analysis takes back with one hand what it gives with the other. I recoil in fear and loathing from that deplorable evil: continuous functions with no derivatives.

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

I most fear stupid people. Stupid people will do anything. Truly smart people will do only what is logical for them to do.

When did reason ever direct our desires or our fears?

Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

... reason accepts no commandments.

Cole chuckled, saying, "Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic.

I am fearful when I see people substituting fear for reason.

No passion so effectively robs the mind of its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.

When things don't add up, either you don't have a calculator or you forgot to use commonsense by simply asking.

Never let your emotions cloud your judgement. For when your emotions take over, you will not be able to control it until it's too late. Always think logical, live life patiently, and always pray. For these things will make you a strong force so that you can always live life moving forward.

If there was one life skill everyone on the planet needed, it was the ability to think with critical objectivity.

What would life be without arithmetic, but a scene of horrors?

Give your decisions, never your reasons; your decisions may be right, your reasons are sure to be wrong.

Mathematics may not teach us how to add love or how to minus hate. But it gives us every reason to hope that every problem has a solution.

Cuál puede ser ese desconocido estado que no trae consigo ninguna prueba lógica, sino la evidencia de su felicidad, y de su realidad junto a la que se desvanecen todas las restantes realidades?

Heterosexuality is not a neutral science and the inner logic of the system works with its own artificially created 'either/or' concepts. It unifies the ambivalence of life into one official version. Per/versions (the different versions of a road) are silenced.

Reason and the reasoning faculty need no foreign assistance, but are sufficient for their own purposes. They move within themselves, and make directly for the point in view. Wherefore, acts in accordance with them are called right acts, for they lead along the right road.

The following are non-sequiturs: 'I am richer, therefore superior to you'; or 'I am a better speaker, therefore a better person, than you'.

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

I also fell in love with Borges. He is a mathematician's writer. His short stories are like mathematical proofs, delicately constructed and with ideas laced together effortlessly. Each step is taken with precision and watertight logic, yet the narrative is full of surprising twists and turns.