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Quotes About Logic

Computers operate on simple principles that can be easily understood by anybody with some common sense, a little imagination, and an IQ of 750.
~ Dave Barry
Invention requires both disciplines, strict common sense and wild imagination.
~ Vanna Bonta
Imagination took the reins, and reason, slow-paced, though sure-footed, was unequal to a race with so eccentric and flighty a companion.
~ Fanny Burney
The imagination goes where it will, you can be set aloft by it, or you can cage it with reason.
~ R.A.Delmonico
I admit that twice two makes four is an excellent thing but if we are to give everything its due twice two makes five is sometimes a very charming thing too.
~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky
If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.
~ Rumi
Physics is a good framework for thinking. ... Boil things down to their fundamental truths and reason up from there.
~ Elon Musk
Emotion is not opposed to reason. Emotions guide and manage thought in fundamental ways and complement the deficiencies of thinking.
~ Les Greenberg
Reductionism is merciless.
~ Douglas Hofstadter
Nonsense is so good only because common sense is so limited.
~ George Santayana
No sane man will dance.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
If you argue with a madman, it is extremely probable that you will get the worst of it; for in many ways his mind moves all the quicker for not being delayed by the things that go with good judgment.
~ Gilbert K. Chesterton
Keep cool; anger is not an argument.
~ Daniel Webster
What does reason know? Reason only knows what it has succeeded in learning.
~ Fyodor Dostoevsky
Faith becomes lame, when it ventures into matters pertaining to reason!
~ Mahatma Gandhi
It's not logical, self-realization. If it was, everybody would be self-realized because everybody is logical.
~ Frederick Lenz
Nothing has an uglier look to us than reason, when it is not on our side.
~ George Saville
Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.
~ Harriet Martineau
Force without reason falls of its own weight.
~ Horace
Without common sense, all thine efforts are in vain.
~ Rudolf Steiner
Not to be mad is another form of madness
~ Blaise Pascal
Christian faith is not an irrational leap.Examined objectively, the claims of the Bible are rational propositions well supported by reason and evidence.
~ Lee Strobel
Have you got something against faith?""Have you got something against reason?
~ Sam Hunter, The Devil's Breath
don't let the pride take over reason
~ Jan Guillou