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• Fear is the enemy of logic.

  Frank Sinatra

  Fear, Enemy

  "The Way You Wear Your Hat : Frank Sinatra and the Lost Art of Livin'". Book by Bill Zehme, 1997.

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• Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

  Winston Churchill

  Math, Poor, Guides

  Winston Churchill (1986). “Closing the Ring”, p.150, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• 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.

  Alexis Carrel

  Believe, Pride, Thinking

  "Saiva Siddhanta" by Saiva Siddhanta Mahasamajam, volume 21, p. 59, 1986.

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• In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

  Alfred North Whitehead

  Real, Knowledge, Science

  Alfred North Whitehead (1997). “Science and the Modern World”, p.187, Simon and Schuster

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• Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

  Jean Piaget

  Sensual, Mathematics, Structure

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• Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Emotion, Reason, Arithmetic

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• Mathematics is, as it were, a sensuous logic, and relates to philosophy as do the arts, music, and plastic art to poetry.

  Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

  Art, Philosophy, Sensual

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• We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Motivational, Death, Spiritual

  "Can A Smart Person Believe in God?". Book by Michael Guillen, Chapter 7: "Hope Springs Eternal," p. 90, 2004.

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• Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

  Michael Shermer

  Faith, Religious, Emotional

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• Evil grows and bears fruit, which is understandable, because it has logic and probability on its side and also, of course, strength. The resistance of tiny kernels of good, to which no one grants the power of causing far-reaching consequences, is entirely mysterious, however. Such seeming nothingness not only lasts but contains within itself enormous energy which is revealed gradually.

  Czeslaw Milosz

  Evil, Energy, Lasts

  "To Begin Where I Am: Selected Essays (If Only This Could Be Said)". Book edited and translated by Bogdana Carpenter and Madeline G. Levine, 2001.

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• Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

  Laurence J. Peter

  Ignorance, Ignorant, Armor

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• Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Common Sense, Classroom

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish”

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• The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

  Thomas B. Macaulay

  Men, Tendencies, Theory

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• The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Truth, Philosophical, World

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.32, University of Chicago Press

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• Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

  Joseph Joubert

  Math, Metaphysics, Contemplating

  "The Notebooks of Joseph Joubert". Book by Joseph Joubert, translated by Paul Auster, 2005.

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• Logic is in the eye of the logician.

  Gloria Steinem

  Witty, Powerful, Philosophy

  Gloria Steinem (2012). “Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions”, p.509, Open Road Media

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• Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

  Fyodor Dostoevsky

  Men, Reason, Abstract

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• Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

  Samuel Butler

  Reason And Logic, Appeals

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4351, Delphi Classics

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• Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

  William E. Gladstone

  Mistake, Math, Men

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• Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Prejudice, Used, Instruments

  Harry Persons Taber, Elbert Hubbard (1905). “The Philistine: A Periodical of Protest”

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• Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.

  Victor Borge

  Humor, Men, Aspiration

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• Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

  E. M. Forster

  Rubbish, Literature, Gracious

  E. M. Forster (2010). “Aspects of the Novel”, p.152, RosettaBooks

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• I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

  Audrey Hepburn

  Stars, Law, Careers

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

  Frank Herbert

  Home, Understanding, Revolution

  Frank Herbert (1983). “Without Me You're Nothing: The Essential Guide to Home Computers”

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• A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.

  Niklaus Wirth

  Death, Thinking, Design

  Interview with Carlo Pescio, www.eptacom.net. June 1997.

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