Quotes About Logic

There's no evidence whatsoever that men are more rational than women. Both sexes seem to be equally irrational.

If something is irrational, that means it won't work. It's usually unrealistic.

Faith begins where Reason sinks exhausted.

Arguing from facts never wins a definitive victory against skillfully presented opinion.

When the logic of history hungers for bread and we hand out a stone, we are at pains to explain how much the stone resembles bread.

Somewhere Chesterton writes--I think it is Chesterton--that you cannot reason a man from a position that reason didn't deliver him to.

Human beings have shone a light on numbers, and we've picked out a logical system," she said. "You can't bring God into this. It's unnecessary." After that I shut up around her about Plato. She also said, "I have to admit I was kind of alarmed when I realized how bad your arithmetic skills were." "How did you know that?" "From the things you would ask.

You can experience and understand history only when you're inside it, but when you're inside it you don't have time or gumption for understanding. All you want is just to stay alive, for which understanding is not necessary. You have no access to history's complex, catastrophic logic, which is indelibly overwhelming and incomprehensible, particularly as you're trying to survive.

You always look for logic even within the madness?" He could feel her eyes on him now, studying him to see if he was serious. He kept his eyes on the road ahead. "It'd be convenient to believe people who commit these types of crimes are simply mad. That there's a neuron or two misfiring inside their brains." "If they're not mad, not crazy, what then?" She hesitated but only briefly before she calmly and quietly said, "They're evil.

Man — a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

Who reasons wisely is not therefore wise; His pride in reasoning, not in acting, lies

Say first, of God above or man below,What can we reason but from what we know?

In search of wit these lose their common sense

What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.

Reason's icy intimations, and records of a heart in pain.

Those who desire to rise as high as our human condition allows, must renounce intellectual pride, the omnipotence of clear thinking, belief in the absolute power of logic.

The point isn't just whether children know what to expect; it's whether what they've come to expect makes sense.

I think that, for me, Superman just seemed to make a lot of sense to me. After doing 'Watchmen,' it was - you know that thing, you've got to know the rules before you can break them? There was something about that in making 'Watchmen.'

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

We think, each of us, that we're much more rational than we are. And we think that we make our decisions because we have good reasons to make them. Even when it's the other way around. We believe in the reasons, because we've already made the decision.

Be able to defend your arguments in a rational way. Otherwise, all you have is an opinion.

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.