Logic Quotes - Page 40

• I'm a writer. That's who I am, at my core. I'm a writer, and then I learned production and administration, along the way. I feel like most people can learn it because production and the administration part is all about logic, and it's all about learning rules and budgets.

  Ronald D. Moore

  Who I Am, People, Way

  Source: collider.com

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• I learned early that you'd better know what you're talking about. You'd better realize that certain issues are going to be so hot - no matter what reason, what logic you apply to it - you're going to be met with an opposition just because their viewpoint is different, and there's no way they're going to accept your reasoning. Furthermore, they're going to attack you because you will be portrayed as not being credible: "You're an actor. What do you know?"

  Robert Redford

  Talking, Issues, Hot

  Interview with Sean P. Means, www.sltrib.com. December 02, 2005.

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• The logic of the poet - that is, the logic of language or the experience itself - develops the way a living organism grows: it spreads out towards what it loves, and is heliotropic, like a plant.

  Thomas Merton

  Way, Language, Poet

  "The Secular Journal of Thomas Merton". Book by Thomas Merton, 1959.

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• There is a logic of language and a logic of mathematics.

  Thomas Merton

  Language, Mathematics

  Thomas Merton (1995). “Run to the mountain: the story of a vocation”, Harpercollins

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• Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

  Moss Hart

  Self, Irony, Pity

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• All your clear and pleasing sentences will fall apart if you don't keep remembering that writing is linear and sequential, that logic is the glue that holds it together, that tension must be maintained from one sentence to the next and from one paragraph to the next and from one section to the next, and that narrative - good old-fashioned storytelling - is what should pull your readers along without their noticing the tug.

  William Zinsser

  Fall, Writing, Together

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• If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles.

  Clarissa Pinkola Estes

  Men, Ifs

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• Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

  Nassim Nicholas Taleb

  Long, Way, Complicated

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• The opinion of the majority or the minority is of no importance! The important thing is the opinion of the Truth, of the Reason, of the Logic, of the High Intelligence!

  Mehmet Murat Ildan

  Important, Majority, Minorities

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• Wilhelm Steinitz was the first man to appreciate the inherent logic behind the game of chess.

  William Hartston

  Men, Games, Appreciate

  William Roland Hartston (1985). “The Kings of Chess: A History of Chess, Traced Through the Lives of Its Greatest Players”, Harpercollins

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• It has been hard to get my head around how Justice Antonin Scalia rationalizes his decisions. His body blow to the Voting Rights Act was a head scratcher, but at least he was calm when he attempted to justify his odd logic.

  Henry Rollins

  Blow, Rights, Justice

  "Henry Rollins: Misguided Outrage Over DOMA’s Demise" by Henry Rollins, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 8, 2013.

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• Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.

  William Blake

  Together, Steps, Tools

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• Children are not our future, and I can prove it with my usual, flawless logic. Children can't be our future, because by the time the future arrives, they won't be children anymore, so blow me!

  George Carlin

  Children, Blow, Usual

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• ...the logic of the photograph is neither verbal nor syntactical, a condition which renders literary culture quite helpless to cope with the photograph.

  Marshall McLuhan

  Culture, Photograph, Conditions

  Marshall McLuhan (1964). “Understanding media: the extensions of man”

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• I'm not at my best when I moralize or philosophize. Logic is elusive, especially to one who so rarely uses it.

  Tallulah Bankhead

  Use, Elusive

  Tallulah Bankhead (1952). “Tallulah: My Autobiography”, p.310, Univ. Press of Mississippi

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• As a school board we felt it's an unfair expense to families. The lawsuit has a certain logic to it - if you have free public education, you can't put these things on top of it. It defeats the purpose.

  Steve Martin

  School, Boards, Purpose

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• Sex and children are the two things that delude logic the most in this society.

  Doug Stanhope

  Sex, Children, Two

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• I'm fascinated by the logic that leads to something.

  Eugene Mirman

  Fascinated

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• The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

  George Will

  Fields, Language, Metaphor

  George F. Will (2003). “With a Happy Eye, But...: America and the World, 1997--2002”, p.282, Simon and Schuster

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• Analogy is even slipperier than logic.

  Robert A. Heinlein

  Analogies

  ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1961). “STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND”

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• The transition between competing paradigms cannot be made a step at a time, forced by logic and neutral experience. Like the gestalt switch, it must occur all at once (though not necessarily in an instant) or not at all.

  Thomas Kuhn

  Transition, Gestalt, Steps

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• Simplicity is all. Simple logic, simple arguments, simple visual images. If you can't reduce your argument to a few crisp words and phrases, there's something wrong with your argument. There's nothing long-winded about 'Liberté, égalité, fraternité'.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Simple, Long, Simplicity

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• If you go to a magic show, you don't want to see logic.

  Willie Nelson

  Magic, Want, Shows

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• The truth is that schools don't really teach anything except how to obey orders. This is a great mystery to me because thousands of humane, caring people work in schools as teachers and aides and administrators, but the abstract logic of the institution overwhelms their individual contributions.

  John Taylor Gatto

  Teacher, School, Caring

  John Taylor Gatto, Thomas Moore (2013). “Dumbing Us Down: The Hidden Curriculum of Compulsory Schooling”, p.30, New Society Publishers

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• My emotional investment started when I read the first scene of the actual drama [45 Years]. I can't explain it, there's no logic to it, but the notion of one's youth that somehow comes back but is gone, a man of my age connecting to that timing of life.

  Tom Courtenay

  Drama, Men, Emotional

  Source: www.avclub.com

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