Quotes About Logic

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [ Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa , 23 November 2004]

We are not rational creatures who feel; we are emotional creatures who rationalize.

Because IQ tests favor memory skills and logic, overlooking artistic creativity, insight, resiliency, emotional reserves, sensory gifts, and life experience, they can't really predict success, let alone satisfaction.

Diversity is not possible in the homogeneous environment of Vulcan. We can preach diversity, but we cannot experience it if we reject that which is diverse. Logic is linear, Ensign. Life is not.

Is it logical," Kirk said, using the word cannily, "to assume the ship was stolen by a full-capacity crew?" "No, sir." Spock tipped his head. "Her crew complement is five hundred. The odds against so many people developing leftist attitudes simultaneously, at one starbase, without a leak, are nine thousand—" "About the same odds as your giving us an answer without decimal points," McCoy barbed. "I think we've been baited.

English was a complex hybrid of Anglo-Saxon and Norse, with a strong overlay of Norman-French, and was difficult for outsiders to learn fluently because of its consequent lack of linguistic logic.

It may be that Anglicans will have to realize that it is one of the glories of their tradition that it is a tradition without logic or consistency, which depends on the strong clash of opposites, and which in the end provides heroes who are examples of human frailty rather than role-models for uncomplicated courage – which forces the individual to undertake a good deal of hard thinking in order to make sense of the world around, rather than reaching for some simple model in a book.

la lógica no existe, Miyuki, no hay lógica, no hay dioses, todo lo hace la casualidad, y lo hace bien.

we shall never again try to convince a fool by reason, for it is both useless and dangerous.

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

ama insan hayatta her istedi?ini elde edemez ki, mant?kl? olmak gerek...

Zato što mnogo, za vas nepojmljivo, volim život. - Ta vaša logika dubi na glavi, majore. - Ne, ne. ?ovek koji ne zaželi da umre, ne zna ni zašto živi. - Ja ne verujem da se živi za nešto što stane u re?. - Živi se sa nešto, ili zbog straha od smrti. Ili zbog jednog, ili zbog drugog.

Reason and faith are both banks of the same river.

People think common sense is common - but it's not.

A conspiracy is everything that ordinary life is not. It's the inside game, cold, sure, undistracted, forever closed off to us. We are the flawed ones, the innocents, trying to make some rough sense of the daily jostle. Conspirators have a logic and a daring beyond our reach.

The problem with the designs of most engineers is that they are too logical. We have to accept human behavior the way it is, not the way we would wish it to be.

Common sense and education are highly compatible in fact, neither is worth much without the other.

Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.

People who are more than casually interested in computers should have at least some idea of what the underlying hardware is like. Otherwise the programs they write will be pretty weird.

One thing I have seen over and over again in life is that there is virtually no correlation between intelligence and common sense. IQ doesn't seem to translate that way.

But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.

The individual's life is of importance to none besides himself: the point is whether he wishes to escape from history or give his life for it. History recks nothing of human logic

Reason is the life of the law.

The Grape that can with Logic absolute The Two-and-Seventy jarring Sects confute: The sovereign Alchemist that in a trice Life's leaden metal into Gold transmute.