Logical Quotes - Page 25

• Prime numbers are what is left when you have taken all the patterns away. I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.

  Mark Haddon

  Taken, Math, Thinking

  Marilyn Herbert, Mark Haddon (2006). “Discusses the Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time: The Complete Package for Readers and Leaders”, p.50, Bookclub-in-a-Box

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• Classifying thoughts, feelings and behaviors as diseases is a logical and semantic error, like classifying whale as fish.

  Thomas Szasz

  Errors, Whales, Feelings

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• Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.

  Frank Herbert

  Life, Real, Princess

  Frank Herbert (2003). “Dune”, p.323, Penguin

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• Whoever it is you fall in love with for the first time, not just love but be in love with, is the one who will always make you angry, the one you can't be logical about.

  Jeanette Winterson

  Falling In Love, Firsts, First Time

  Jeanette Winterson (2011). “The Passion”, p.145, Random House

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• Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical.

  Jeff Lindsay

  Monsters, Inhuman

  Jeff Lindsay (2005). “Dearly Devoted Dexter”, p.51, Vintage Crime/Black Lizard

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• Wouldn't it be most logical for her to change herself into a living thing, like a cat or dog, a bird or mouse?' That would be the easiest transformation, but Risto is above doing something simple.' Still, I'd be happier if Dibl would quit eating those bugs. Dibl, stop it. You might eat Gilda.

  Donita K. Paul

  Dog, Cat, Simple

  Donita K. Paul (2008). “DragonQuest: A Novel”, p.274, WaterBrook

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• If it was as logical as that, I wouldn't continue to feel as bad as I do. I know what you're saying, and you're absolutely right in a way. But logic and rationality only go so far. Then you know what happens? Ha! Then your heart adds its two cents and everything reasonable goes right-out-the-window.

  Jonathan Carroll

  Heart, Two, Add

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• You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man’s desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I’ve always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water.

  Ted Dekker

  Believe, Ocean, Men

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• If you live today, you breath in nihilism ... it's the gas you breathe. If I hadn't had the Church to fight it with or to tell me the necessity of fighting it, I would be the stinkingest logical positivist you ever saw right now.

  Flannery O'Connor

  Fighting, Nihilism, Church

  "This Lonesome Place" by Hilton Als, www.newyorker.com. January 29, 2001.

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• Let us again pretend that life is a solid substance, shaped like a globe, which we turn about in our fingers. Let us pretend that we can make out a plain and logical story, so that when one matter is despatched—love for instance—we go on, in an orderly manner, to the next.

  Virginia Woolf

  Stories, Substance, Goes On

  Virginia Woolf (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Virginia Woolf (Illustrated)”, p.1428, Delphi Classics

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• A draw may be the beautiful and logical result of fine attacks and parries; and the public ought to appreciate such games, in contrast, of course, to the fear-and-laziness draws.

  Bent Larsen

  Beautiful, Games, Appreciate

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• Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

  Susan Polgar

  Children, Learning, Math

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• We are definitely living in the butterfly effect theory, where any change that is made in the past is going to have a very logical cause-and-effect ramification of the present.

  Eric Kripke

  Butterfly, Past, Causes

  "Timeless: Showrunners preview NBC time-travel series". Interview with Shirley Li, ew.com. September 29, 2016.

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• One of the biggest struggles that I've faced and overcome is finding a balance between emotion and facilitating it through logical means. One of the biggest challenges I have is finding that balance. This emotional mess that I am and this logical side of me, I try to find the medium that will balance me out. I think that's my big mission statement in life: to find that balance. It's a negative-positive and how that relates.

  Keith Stanfield

  Struggle, Mean, Emotional

  Source: www.interviewmagazine.com

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• I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.

  Martha Gellhorn

  Creativity, Imagination, Innovation

  Martha Gellhorn (1988). “The Face of War”, p.4, Atlantic Monthly Press

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• I tend to jot down moments, lines, interactions that don't really make any sense. I try and explain these scattered notes to my close friends, and they become more and more logical. I see screenwriting as a bit like a math equation which I have to solve.

  Asghar Farhadi

  Math, Trying, Lines

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• In order to keep anything cultural, logical, or ideological, you have to reinvent the reality of it.

  Ani DiFranco

  Reality, Order, Ideological

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• Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

  Billy Corgan

  Effectiveness, Calm, Debate

  "Billy Corgan: Swine flu was 'created by man'" by Sean Michaels, www.theguardian.com. October 29, 2009.

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• Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Life, Book, Midst

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• If you take Darwin's theory and extend it to its logical end, it can be used to justify a number of very horrendous things.

  Kirk Cameron

  Numbers, Theory, Used

  "Kirk Cameron Helps Spread Anti-Darwin Message at Purdue U" by Andrew Greiner, www.nbcchicago.com. November 20, 2009.

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• Make big plans; aim high in hope and work, remembering that a noble, logical diagram once recorded will not die.

  Daniel Burnham

  Noble, City Planning, Architecture

  Commercial Club of Chicago, Daniel Hudson Burnham, Edward Herbert Bennett (1970). “Plan of Chicago”, Da Capo Pr

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• My suggestion is that at each state the proper order of operation of the mind requires an overall grasp of what is generally known, not only in formal logical, mathematical terms, but also intuitively, in images, feelings, poetic usage of language, etc.

  David Bohm

  Order, Feelings, Mind

  "Wholeness and the Implicate Order". Book by David Bohm, 1980.

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• The logical thing is to implement the Arab Defense Agreement.

  Bashar al-Assad

  Agreement, Defense

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• I've spent a lot of my early twenties focusing on other people as opposed to myself. Being madly in love with people and putting them first and not necessarily putting myself under a microscope. It's unsettling but I'm trying to be the kind of person that can be alone, at peace with himself. Making most recent album, I felt braver putting stuff into songs than I do bringing them up in conversation. Which makes no logical sense. Lyrically, there was a lot less hiding behind suns and moons and stars.

  Oliver Sim

  Song, Moon, People

  Source: www.thefader.com

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• I approve designs not because I think I am more gifted or somebody who can see ahead three or four years from now, but just to make sure that the design is a logical, rational decision, taken after analyzing pros and cons.

  Carlos Ghosn

  Taken, Thinking, Years

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