Logic Quotes - Page 25

• It is perhaps wrong to say that the enemy of enlightenment is logic; rather, it is dualistic, verbal thinking. In fact, it is even more basic than that: it is perception.

  Douglas Hofstadter

  Thinking, Perception, Enemy

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• There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

  Antony Jay

  Ideas, Done, Lines

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• She was a woman attempting to make some sense of, and get some satisfaction from, a life that seemed to have no more logic than a roulette wheel.

  Vincent Canby

  Roulette, Satisfaction, Wheels

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• A dead end street is a good place to turn around. Can't really fault the logic of that, unless you want to go down the dead end of course!

  Naomi Judd

  Want, Faults, Dead Ends

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• most scientific problems are far better understood by studying their history than their logic.

  Ernst Mayr

  Society, Study, Problem

  Ernst Mayr (1982). “The Growth of Biological Thought: Diversity, Evolution, and Inheritance”, p.6, Harvard University Press

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• Iran's strong logic and firm diplomacy is the guideline for all government officials in negotiations on country's peaceful nuclear program with foreigners, quite resolutely.

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad

  Country, Strong, Government

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• Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Art, Philosophy, Truth Prevails

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• A theory must be tempered with reality.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Science, Technology, Reality

  Mahatma Gandhi, Jawaharlal Nehru, Rabindranath Tagore (1968). “Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi, Nehru, Tagore: Being a Treasury of Over Ten Thousand Invaluable and Inspiring Thoughts, Views, and Obervations on about Eight Hundred Subjects of Popular Interest, Collected from the Speeches and Writings of These Three Great Leaders of Modern India”

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• Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

  Jawaharlal Nehru

  Faith, Fear, Fighting

  Jawaharlal Nehru, M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, Bal Ram Nanda (1972). “Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal”

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• The world of learning is so broad, and the human soul is so limited in power! We reach forth and strain every nerve, but we seize only a bit of the curtain that hides the infinite from us.

  Maria Mitchell

  Soul, Nerves, World

  Maria Mitchell (1896). “Maria Mitchell: Life, Letters, and Journals”

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• If human thought is a growth, like all other growths, its logic is without foundation of its own, and is only the adjusting constructiveness of all other growing things. A tree cannot find out, as it were, how to blossom, until comes blossom-time. A social growth cannot find out the use of steam engines, until comes steam-engine-time.

  Charles Fort

  Science, Tree, Growth

  Charles Fort (2014). “LO!”, p.16, Lulu.com

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• Natural science sharpens the discrimination. There is no false logic in nature. All its properties are permanent: the acids and metals never lie; their yea is yea, their nay, nay. They are newly discovered but not new.

  Ralph Waldo Emerson

  Lying, Thinking, Acid

  Ralph Waldo Emerson, Stephen E. Whicher (1959). “The Early Lectures of Ralph Waldo Emerson”, p.75, Harvard University Press

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• I think comedy has to be an intellectual pursuit. It comes down to logic and analysis. As soon as it becomes emotional, it's not comedy anymore.

  Ricky Gervais

  Emotional, Thinking, Intellectual

  "Ricky Gervais: The ESQ+A". Interview with Scott Raab, www.esquire.com. January 12, 2012.

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• I love an art which allows me to document my place in this mix... This is my past and my future. It has its own logic and finally, its own sense of fulfillment.

  Burton Silverman

  Art, Past, Satisfaction

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• The creative genius may be at once naive and knowledgeable, being at home equally with primitive symbolism and rigorous logic.

  Frank X. Barron

  Home, Symbolism, Creative

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• Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things.

  Confucius

  May, Sides, Study

  Confucius (2016). “Chinese Literature”, p.47, Confucius

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• Logic is the subject that has helped me most in picking stocks, if only because it taught me to identify the peculiar illogic of Wall Street. Actually Wall Street thinks just as the Greeks did. The early Greeks used to sit around for days and debate how many teeth a horse has. They thought they could figure it out just by sitting there, instead of checking the horse. A lot of investors sit around and debate whether a stock is going up, as if the financial muse will give them the answer, instead of checking the company.

  Peter Lynch

  Horse, Wall, Thinking

  Peter Lynch (2012). “One Up On Wall Street: How To Use What You Already Know To Make Money In”, p.50, Simon and Schuster

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• When Grand Masters play, they see the logic of their opponent's moves. One's moves may be so powerful that the other may not be able to stop him, but the plan behind the moves will be clear. Not so with Fischer. His moves did not make sense - at least to all the rest of us they didn't. We were playing chess, Fischer was playing something else, call it what you will. Naturally, there would come a time when we finally would understand what those moves had been about. But by then it was too late. We were dead.

  Mark Taimanov

  Powerful, Moving, Play

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• There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

  Criss Jami

  Fallacy, Identifying, Logical

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.21, Criss Jami

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• An artistic perspective will jab at you from a different angle; its logic comes like a pitcher with a curveball.

  Criss Jami

  Perspective, Different, Artistic

  Criss Jami (2015). “Killosophy”, p.48, Criss Jami

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• The single greatest world transformation would simply be the embrace of global reasonableness and pluralistic tolerance the global embrace of egoic-rationality (on the way to centauric vision-logic).

  Ken Wilber

  Tolerance, Vision, World

  Ken Wilber (2001). “Sex, Ecology, Spirituality: The Spirit of Evolution, Second Edition”, p.206, Shambhala Publications

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• Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

  Christian Nestell Bovee

  Weapons, Causes, Used

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• Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.

  Elie Wiesel

  Philosophy, Process, Discourse

  Elie Wiesel, Robert Franciosi (2002). “Elie Wiesel: Conversations”, p.87, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. It roots in a bare wisdom that exists in senses more than mind, a wisdom that, in primitive form, evolved the mind which so often overlooks it.

  Charles Lindbergh

  Roots, Mind, Needs

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1978). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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• What is a logical mind?... It is the antiseptic which destroys the bacilli of unreason whereby true happiness is vivified.

  William John Locke

  Mind, True Happiness, Logical

  William John Locke (1906). “The Morals of Marcus Ordeyne: A Novel”

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