Logic Quotes - Page 27

• Hunches are a kind of subterranean logic shorthand.

  Joyce Brothers

  Intuition, Kind, Hunches

  Joyce Brothers (1985). “How to get whatever you want out of life”

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• Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Art, Convincing

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• Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.

  Thomas De Witt Talmage

  Doctrine, Use, Helping

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• Everywhere - all over Africa and South America - you see these suburbs springing up. They represent the optimum of what people want. There's a certain sort of logic leading towards these immaculate suburbs. And they're terrifying, because they are the death of the soul. This is the prison this planet is being turned into.

  J. G. Ballard

  America, People, Soul

  October 30, 1982 Interview, Re/Search, No. 8/9, 1984.

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• The first race of mankind used to dispute, as our ordinary people do now-a-days, in a kind of wild logic, uncultivated by rule of art.

  Joseph Addison

  Art, Race, People

  Joseph Addison (1854). “The Works of Joseph Addison: The Spectator”, p.560

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• Even death after a long illness is without warning. The moment you had prepared for so carefully took you by storm. The troops broke through the window and snatched the body and the body is gone. ... Death reduces us to the baffled logic of a small child. If yesterday why not today?

  Jeanette Winterson

  Death, Children, Yesterday

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• Intuition is a combination of insight and imagination that was once attributed to spiritual communication. Mathematicians call it 'fuzzy logic,' drawing conclusions from vague or subjective input. The mind becomes aware without the direct intervention of reasoning. Once you can imagine something you can begin the process of creating it. Executives use intuition to make many product, investment, and hiring decisions, even if they deny it. Success in business may depend on an accurate gut.

  Jennifer James

  Spiritual, Business, Communication

  Jennifer James (2012). “Thinking In The Future Tense”, p.38, Simon and Schuster

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• Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

  Alexander Smith

  Pleasure, Footsteps

  Alexander Smith (1863). “Dreamthorp: A Book of Essays Written in the Country”, p.60

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• There is no learned man but will confess be hath much profited by reading controversies,--his senses awakened, his judgment sharpened, and the truth which he holds firmly established. If then it be profitable for him to read, why should it not at least be tolerable and free for his adversary to write? In logic they teach that contraries laid together, more evidently appear; it follows then, that all controversy being permitted, falsehood will appear more false, and truth the more true; which must needs conduce much to the general confirmation of an implicit truth.

  John Milton

  Reading, Writing, Men

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• Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

  Agatha Christie

  Men, Aunt, Should Have

  Agatha Christie (1986). “Agatha Christie: five complete novels of murder and detection”, Random House Value Publishing

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• A régime [Nazism] which invented a biological foreign policy was obviously acting against its own best interests. But at least it obeyed its own particular logic.

  Albert Camus

  Acting, Nazism, Foreign Policy

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• Nothing is text but what is spoken of in the Bible and meant there for person and place; the rest is application; which a discreet man may do well; but it is his scripture, not the Holy Ghost's. First, in your sermons use your logic, and then your rhetoric; rhetoric without logic is like a tree with leaves and blossoms, but no root.

  John Selden

  Men, Roots, Tree

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• Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

  Erica Jong

  Faith, Heart, Mind

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• Cooking like everything else in France is logic and fashion.

  Gertrude Stein

  Fashion, Cooking, France

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• there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion.

  Gertrude Stein

  Fashion, Two Sides, People

  Gertrude Stein (2017). “Delphi Complete Works of Gertrude Stein (Illustrated)”, p.6152, Delphi Classics

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• when dancing is right, the movement possesss a logic common to us all, an inevitability that takes it beyond the personal and egocentric and makes of it classical art.

  Twyla Tharp

  Dance, Art, Dancing

  Twyla Tharp (1992). “Push Comes to Shove”, Bantam Dell Publishing Group

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• The White Protestant's ultimate sympathy must be with science, factology, and committee rather than with sex, birth, heat, flesh, creation, the sweet and the funky; they must vote, manipulate, control, and direct, these Protestants who are the center of power in our land, they must go for what they believe is reason when it is only the Square logic of the past.

  Norman Mailer

  Sweet, Sex, Believe

  "Advertisements for Myself". Book by Norman Mailer, 1959.

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• When two or three sciences are pursued at the same time if one of them be dry, as logic, let another be more entertaining, to secure the mind from weariness.

  Isaac Watts

  Two, Mind, Three

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• He who recognizes no higher logic than that of the shilling may become a very rich man, and yet remain all the while an exceedingly poor creature; for riches are no proof whatever of moral worth, and their glitter often serves only to draw attention to the worthlessness of their possessor, as the glow-worm's light reveals the grub.

  Samuel Smiles

  Men, Light, Attention

  Samuel Smiles (1871). “Self-help: With Illustrations of Characters, Conduct, and Perseverance”, p.341

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• Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.

  Joseph Joubert

  Sound, Grammar

  Joseph Joubert (1896). “Pensées of Joubert”

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• Because one cause is bad does not make the opposing cause good.

  Fay Weldon

  Doe, Causes, Opposing

  Fay Weldon (2011). “Letters to Alice”, p.68, Hachette UK

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• Writing is more than just the making of a series of comprehensible statements: it is the gathering in of connotations; the harvesting of them, like blackberries in a good season, ripe and heavy, snatched from among the thorns of logic.

  Fay Weldon

  Writing, Gathering, Thorns

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• Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic.' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.

  Marie Corelli

  Spiritual, Intuition, Life Is

  Marie Corelli (2015). “The Master Christian”, p.154, The Floating Press

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• Television's compelling power is its immediacy . .. this immediacy feeds the politics of emotions, gut reactions and impressions rather than the politics of logic, facts and reason; it emphasizes personality rather than issues.

  Hedrick Smith

  Issues, Personality, Television

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• And what is 'art'? - a firestorm rushing through Time, arising from no visible source and conforming to no principles of logic or causality.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Art, Rushing, Causality

  Joyce Carol Oates (2009). “The Faith of a Writer: Life, Craft, Art”, p.154, Zondervan

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