Logical Quotes - Page 18

• It seems that scientists are often attracted to beautiful theories in the way that insects are attracted to flowers — not by logical deduction, but by something like a sense of smell.

  Steven Weinberg

  Beautiful, Flower, Smell

  Physics Today, November 2005.

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• I don't know if 1300 players could really participate in the selection of a commissioner, and I've never given it a great deal of thought. I think it's a logical point they could make, but it's only an academic one

  Pete Rozelle

  Player, Thinking, Academic

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• Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

  Alvin Plantinga

  Reason, Capacity, Propositions

  Alvin Plantinga (2000). “Warranted Christian Belief”, p.168, Oxford University Press

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• Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition

  A. R. Ammons

  Teaching, Reading, Class

  A. R. Ammons (1996). “Set in motion: essays, interviews, and dialogues”, Univ of Michigan Pr

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• The rise of the Soviet school to the summit of world chess is a logical result of socialist cultural development.

  Alexander Kotov

  School, Development, World

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• It is perfectly evident to any logical mind that when you have got the vote, by the proper use of the vote in sufficient numbers, by combination, you can get out of any legislature whatever you want, or, if you cannot get it, you can send them about their business and choose other people who will be more attentive to your demands.

  Emmeline Pankhurst

  Numbers, People, Mind

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• We rely on faith only in the context of claims for which there is no sufficient sensory or logical evidence.

  Sam Harris

  Atheist, Atheism, Claims

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• Time talks behind our back. To our face it's friendly and logical, never hesitating to give more of itself. But when we're not looking, it steals our lives and says bad things about us to the parts of us it's stolen

  Jonathan Carroll

  Giving, Friendly, Faces

  Jonathan Carroll (2012). “A Child Across the Sky”, p.91, Open Road Media

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• They always believe that 'things are in a bad way now,' but they 'haven't any faith in these idealists.' One minute they call Wilson 'just a dreamer, not practical'- a year later they rail at him for making his dreams realities. They haven't clear logical ideas on one single subject except a sturdy, stolid opposition to all change. They don't think uneducated people should be highly paid, but they won't see that if they don't pay the uneducated people their children are going to be uneducated too, and we're going round and round in a circle. That- is the great middle class.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Dream, Children, Believe

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.996, Simon and Schuster

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• Once you cared about a person, it was impossible to be logical about them anymore.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Impossible, New Moon, Persons

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• The fatal errors of life are not due to man's being unreasonable: an unreasonable moment may be one's finest moment. They are due to man's being logical.

  Oscar Wilde

  Men, Errors, May

  Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.67, Oxford University Press on Demand

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• Don't be logical. You know I hate that.

  Susan Mallery

  Hate, I Hate, Knows

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• The demons of the Devil don't use your weak weaknesses against you, they use your strong ones. If you're rational and logical, they argue their case rationally and logically. If you're loyal and faithful, they turn those against you. If you're passionate and emotional, they make you passionate and emotional about your worse fears. Your weak weaknesses are no use to them.... They find the strongest weaknesses you didn't know were yours and use those against you.

  Aidan Chambers

  Strong, Emotional, Loyal And Faithful

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• But that's men all over ... Poor dears, they can't help it. They haven't got logical minds.

  Dorothy L. Sayers

  Men, Mind, Ironic

  Dorothy L. Sayers (2012). “Busman's Honeymoon”, p.476, Open Road Media

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• George's son had done his work so thoroughly that he was considered too good a workman to live, and was, in fact, taken and tragically shot at twelve o'clock that same day—another instance of the untoward fate which so often attends dogs and other philosophers who follow out a train of reasoning to its logical conclusion, and attempt perfectly consistent conduct in a world made up so largely of compromise.

  Thomas Hardy

  Dog, Taken, Fate

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “Far from the Madding Crowd: Works of Hardy”, p.27, 谷月社

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• Nothing will behave in the logical way you have come to expect.

  Paulo Coelho

  Way, Behave

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• You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

  Robin McKinley

  Military, Government, Littles

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• I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.

  Ansel Adams

  Fall, Past, Vision

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• Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.

  Talcott Parsons

  Special, Elements, Facts

  Talcott Parsons (1968). “The structure of social action: a study in social theory with special reference to a group of recent European writers”

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• If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.

  Roman Polanski

  Children, Passion, Fruit

  The Independent, May 12, 1991.

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• Sometimes I feel like I'm in a dream world, because it doesn't always seem too logical how things work out.

  Robert Rodriguez

  Dream, Work Out, World

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• If I were running to be somebody, there are a lot of easier sombodies to be. After all, running against the incumbent governor of your own party in your home state is not the next logical step in a political life.

  Marco Rubio

  Running, Party, Home

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• Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

  Bertrand Russell

  Philosophical, Analysis, Problem

  Bertrand Russell (2017). “Our Knowledge of the External World”, p.20, Jovian Press

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• Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion.

  Al-Waleed bin Talal

  Fighting, Compassion, Government

  "Saudi Prince Urges Ground Zero Mosque Be Moved" by Cindy E. Rodriguez, abcnews.go.com. October 28, 2010.

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• Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.

  Allen Tate

  Criticism, Experience, May

  Allen Tate (1999). “Essays of Four Decades”, Isi Books

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