Logical Quotes

• There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, God

  "Happy Accidents: Serendipity in Modern Medical Breakthroughs". Book by Morton A. Meyers, p. 14, 2007.

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• Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

  Thomas Huxley

  Wise, Wisdom, Science

  'Science and Culture and Other Essays' (1881) 'On the Hypothesis that Animals are Automata'

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• The more you learn, the more you know. The more you know, the more you forget. The more you forget, the less you know. So why bother to learn.

  Stephen Hawking

  Forget, Bother, Knows

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• The logical conclusion to a compassionate and respectful relationship to sentient animals is that we stop eating them.

  Jonathan Balcombe

  Animal, Eating, Respectful

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• We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit.

  Will Durant

  Inspirational, Life, Motivational

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• Never put off the work till tomorrow what you can put off today.

  Stephen Hawking

  Today, Tomorrow

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• In design, be logical, search for truth, be clear.

  Massimo Vignelli

  Design, Truth Is, Clear

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• It is not logical for art to be logical. Art goes against the grain of the times as readily as it goes with it and at the very same moment. Instead of seeking the nearest exit, art responds to a new situation by uncovering a labyrinth of problems.

  Harold Rosenberg

  Art, Labyrinth, Exit

  "Art and Other Serious Matters". Book by Harold Rosenberg. Chapter: "Movement in Art", p. 14, 1985.

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• Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

  Bertrand Russell

  Inspiration, Firsts, Insight

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.22, Bertrand Russell

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• Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Reality, Thinking

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

  Jodi Picoult

  Disappointment, Thinking, Hands

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1291, Simon and Schuster

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• There is a logical explanation for everything, often mistaken for the reason it happened.

  Robert Breault

  Reason, Explanation, Mistaken

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• The heart wants what it wants.

  Woody Allen

  Witty, Inspirational Love, Humorous

  Quoted in USA Today, 24 Aug. 1992 See Pascal 14

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• How come abbreviated is such a long word?

  Steven Wright

  Funny, Humor, Long

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• The more you know, the more you owe.

  Luis J. Rodriguez

  Conversations With God, Shoreline, Knows

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• Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

  Stephen Hawking

  Term, Relative

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• Certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

  Learning, Destiny, Men

  "The Path of the Law" (1897)

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• Hard work never killed anybody, but why take a chance?

  Edgar Bergen

  Funny, Business, Work

  Quoted in Robert Byrne, The Other 637 Best Things Anybody Ever Said (1984) See Modern Proverbs 41

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• Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Insightful, Logic

  "Fictional character: Captain Spock". "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• The wise never marry, and when they marry they become otherwise.

  Stephen Hawking

  Wise

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• If it's true that we are here to help others, then what exactly are the others here for?

  Robert Anton Wilson

  Funny, Humor, Helping Others

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• The more you know, the more you see

  Aldous Huxley

  Conversations With God, Shoreline, Knows

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• A bus station is where a bus stops. A train station is where a train stops. On my desk, I have a work station….

  William Faulkner

  Bus Stops, Desks, Train Stations

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• It is only logical that the pauperization of our soul and the soul of society coincide with the pauperization of the environment. One is the cause and the reflection of the other.

  Paolo Soleri

  Reflection, Soul, Environmental

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• All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

  Steven Weinberg

  Simple, Logical Arguments, Religion

  Steven Weinberg (1992). “Dreams of a Final Theory”, Pantheon

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