Logical Reasoning Quotes

• If one's cause is supported by sound reasoning, there is no point in using violence. It is those who have no motive other than selfish desire and who cannot achieve their goal through logical reasoning who rely on force.

  Dalai Lama

  Selfish, Goal, Desire

  Dalai Lama, Anne Benson, Fabien Ouaki (2016). “Imagine All the People: A Conversation with the Dalai Lama on Money, Politics, and Life As It Could Be”, p.127, Simon and Schuster

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• No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  Attributed to Niels Bohr in William Glen "The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis" (p. 62), 1994.

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• The whole is more than the sum of its parts.

  Aristotle

  Peace, Philosophical, Mathematical Logic

  James McLean Watson, Aristotle (1909). “Aristotle's criticisms of Plato”

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• Mathematics is not arithmetic. Though mathematics may have arisen from the practices of counting and measuring it really deals with logical reasoning in which theorems-general and specific statements-can be deduced from the starting assumptions. It is, perhaps, the purest and most rigorous of intellectual activities, and is often thought of as queen of the sciences.

  Christopher Zeeman

  Queens, Science, Practice

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• A painting is more than the sum of its parts

  Wendelin Van Draanen

  Mathematical Logic, Greek, Painting

  Wendelin Van Draanen (2008). “Flipped”, p.34, Knopf Books for Young Readers

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• If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

  Rita Mae Brown

  Sexy, Memorable, Math

  "Sudden Death". Book by Rita Mae Brown, 1983.

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• God cannot be understood by logical reasoning but only by submission.

  Leo Tolstoy

  Submission, Understood, Logical

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• In Architecture there is a part that is the result of Logical Reasoning and a part that is created through the Senses. There is always a point where they Clash. I don't think Architecture can be created without that Collision.

  Tadao Ando

  Thinking, Architecture, Results

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• Play stimulates the parts of the brain involved in both careful, logical reasoning and carefree, unbound exploration.

  Greg McKeown

  Play, Brain, Carefree

  "Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less". Book by Greg McKeown, 2014.

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• I have not come to know atheism as a result of logical reasoning and still less as an event in my life: in me it is a matter of instinct.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Religion, Atheism, Events

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2016). “Ecce Homo: How One Becomes What”, p.19, Friedrich Nietzsche

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• More by example than by word, my father taught me logical reasoning, compassion, love of others, honesty, and discipline applied with understanding.

  Paul D. Boyer

  Honesty, Father, Compassion

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• The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole, so long as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it.

  Adolf Hitler

  Religious, Long, Faithful

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• Chélan had acted as imprudently for Julien as he had for himself. He had given him the habit of reasoning correctly, and of not being put off by empty words, but he had neglected to tell him that this habit was a crime in the person of no importance, since every piece of logical reasoning is offensive.

  Stendhal

  Pieces, Offensive, Empty

  Stendhal (2016). “The Red and the Black”, p.191, Xist Publishing

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