Logical Quotes - Page 3

• 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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• Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

  Albert Einstein

  Teaching, Math, Science

  "Obituary for Emmy Noether". Letter to the Editor of The New York Times, www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk. May 5, 1935.

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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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• After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Hope, Inspiration, May

  "Fictional character: Spock". "Star Trek" (TV Series), www.imdb.com. 1967.

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• The more you learn, the more you know that you know nothing.

  Ayn Rand

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Knows

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• The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature.

  Oscar W. Firkins

  Nature, Mind, Faults

  Oscar W. Firkins (1934). “Memoirs and Letters”, p.202, U of Minnesota Press

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• A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.

  Bertrand Russell

  World, Study, Propositions

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Basic Writings of Bertrand Russell”, p.155, Routledge

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• Logical thinking will not be enough to get answers to the questions that matter most in life. We need revelation from God.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Thinking, Needs, Answers

  FaceBook post by Henry B Eyring from Oct 17, 2014

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• Love isn't logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us. Sometimes things have to get worse before they get better.

  Susane Colasanti

  Choices, Get Better, Sometimes

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• Everyone isn’t logical. Everything doesn’t make sense in the end. Sometimes you have to forget about explanations or excuses and leave people and places behind, because otherwise they will drag you straight down.

  Tammara Webber

  People, Sometimes, Forget

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• However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

  Edwin Hubbel Chapin

  Faith, Ends, Thread

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• Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.

  John Dewey

  Men, History, Intellectual

  John Dewey, Jo Ann Boydston (1977). “The Poems of John Dewey”, p.61, SIU Press

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• An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic.

  Lion Feuchtwanger

  Logic, Action

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• Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Thinking, Impossible, Function

  Rudolf Steiner (2006). “Cosmic Memory”, p.36, SteinerBooks

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• We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Hope, Have Faith, Bleak

  "Cousteau country: scuba diving in Papua New Guinea" by Kevin Rushby, www.theguardian.com. July 29, 2017.

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• We must question the story logic of having an all-knowing all-powerful God, who creates faulty Humans, and then blames them for his own mistakes.

  Gene Roddenberry

  Motivational, Death, Spiritual

  "Can A Smart Person Believe in God?". Book by Michael Guillen, Chapter 7: "Hope Springs Eternal," p. 90, 2004.

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• The more you know, the more you know you don't know.

  Aristotle

  Shoreline, Knows

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• There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

  Benjamin Graham

  Safety, Investing, Principles

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• It's very logical: There is proven ROI in doing whatever you can to turn your customers into advocates for your brand or business. The way to create advocates is to offer superior customer service.

  Gary Vaynerchuk

  Educational, Way, Roi

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• We can’t help who we love. Love isn’t logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us.

  Susane Colasanti

  Love, Choices, Helping

  Susane Colasanti (2010). “Something Like Fate”, p.80, Penguin

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• The logical end to defensive warfare is surrender.

  Napoleon Bonaparte

  Warfare, Surrender, Ends

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• The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.

  Robert Louis Stevenson

  Art, Pregnancy, Sensual

  'On some technical Elements of Style in Literature' (1885)

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• When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.

  Bertrand Russell

  Men, Emotional, Favour

  Bertrand Russell (2016). “Mysticism and Logic”, p.31, Bertrand Russell

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• It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.

  Jean Piaget

  Inspirational, Education, Children

  Richard Isadore Evans, Jean Piaget (1973). “Dialogue with Jean Piaget”, Praeger Publishers

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• If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world

  Vannevar Bush

  Understanding, World, Arithmetic

  Vannevar Bush (1946). “Endless horizons”

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