Quotes About Logic

No hay espacio para la imaginación en la geometría.

Yaln?zca çok budala insanlar?n sürekli mant?kl? konuÅŸtuÄŸunu biliyor musun?

Oh I know. But feeling is so different than knowing. My common sense tells me all you can say, but there are times where common sense has no power over me. Common nonsense takes possession of my soul.

Mant?kl? olmak harika bir ÅŸey olmal? ama yine de mant?kl? bir insan olmak istediÄŸimi düÅŸünmüyorum çünkü mant?kl? insanlar hiç romantik deÄŸiller.

I won't be reasonable—I can't be reasonable—I AM reasonable.

Counseling that attempts to logically teach new truth without concern for the emotional threat involved in changing one's approach to meeting personal needs will plow headlong into resistance.

On a world built to ordered specification, there was no logical reason for such a mountain to exist. Yet every world should have at least one unclimbable mountain.

Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster. ~Bibiana to Anita

Lust has less logic than love, sometimes, but it's easier to fight.

Then stop trying to throw logic at nightmares. Sometimes the monsters are real, Anita. Sometimes they're real and the only way to defeat them is to be the bigger monster.

Because he'd scared me, I was mad at him. Illogical, but it was better to be mad than scared.

I'd had Jean-Claude drive the metaphysical bus before, but I'd never felt it like this, never been so aware of how terribly aware he was of his power, of my power, of the power we all offered him. He was vampire, which meant he was a cold power, a thing of logic, because emotions do not trouble the dead. He shifted through our talents, like Edward would have looked through his gun safe. Which gun will do the job? Which will make this shot?

Apparently the Irish Fey answered direct questions, but what you didn't ask, they didn't answer, even if logically it was connected.

My dear Mrs. Grimstone, sometimes cowardice is merely another word for common sense.

Sleeping and waking—for him the states grew ever less distinct. Sleep gained in truth as waking lost the arrogance of certainty. Dreams, three-D and portentous, sported a logic no less satisfactory than that of what, by mere consensus, was called the real. Categories dissolved; things floated free of their names, and a kind of geriatric Buddhism became ever more unquestioned and serene.

was all uniformity;—he was systematical, and, like all systematic reasoners, he would move both heaven and earth, and twist and torture every thing in nature to support his hypothesis.

When there is an emotional element in a belief, argument rarely has much effect. 

You think the knife was used, cleaned, then scraped through the blood on the floor?" Lestrade asked. "Evidently." "Why do that?" "Chief Inspector, I try to form my hypotheses upon data, rather than shape the data to match my wishes." And

ratiocination.

You can build a whole world of lies, as long as each lie reinforces every other lie. You can create a masterful structure of sheer logic if you begin with one false postulate. All it takes is consistency.

Women (don't) follow logic's rules when they (commit) adultery.

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

Positivism is a theory of knowledge according to which the only kind of sound knowledge available to human kind is that if science grounded in observation.