Willard Van Orman Quine Quotes

Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

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• We have confirmed something we only knew in theory, namely that revolution, in which uncontrolled and uncontrollable forces operate imperiously, is blind and destructive, grandiose and cruel.

  

  Federica Montseny
  • Revolution
  • Theory
  • Blind

• Faith is not belief without proof, but trust without reservation.

  

  D. Elton Trueblood
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• Even for practical purposes theory generally turns out the most important thing in the end.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
  • Important
  • End
  • Theory

• I do know that you have to choose between the logic of reconciliation and the logic of justice. Pure justice leads to new civil war. I prefer the negotiable revolution.

  

  Adam Michnik
  • War
  • Justice
  • Revolution

• White supremacy is a very, very popular and trenchant belief in this country's history and heritage.

  

  Ta-Nehisi Coates
  • Country
  • History
  • Popular

• Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.

  

  Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
  • Mind
  • Logic
  • Insanity

• Many, many, many small moves of many kinds can bring a way to manage change. The theory can come later.

  

  Flora Lewis
  • Small
  • Change
  • Theory

• It is my belief that many who think they dislike poetry are really poetical in their natures and are indebted to it, more than they imagine, for the success they may have achieved, even in practical pursuits, and for the enjoyment their lives have afforded them.

  

  Orson F. Whitney
  • May
  • Success
  • Poetry

• You cannot run a business, or anything else, on a theory.

  

  Harold S. Geneen
  • Business
  • Run
  • Theory

• I believe that your religion should be between you and whoever your belief is in.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Believe
  • Religion
  • Belief

• When you come through a business education, a lot of what they teach you is to make decisions through analysis, and logic and rationale, and I'm a big believer in that. But I also believe in the power of instinct. The truth is you're never going to have a perfect answer or view of how it is going to work.

  

  Imran Amed
  • Work
  • Believe
  • Business

• The evolutionary theory of senescence can be stated as follows: while bodies are not designed to fail, neither are they designed for extended operation.

  

  S. Jay Olshansky
  • Theory
  • Fail
  • While

• Fanatics do not have faith - they have belief. With faith you let go. You trust. Whereas with belief you cling.

  

  Yann Martel
  • Faith
  • Trust
  • Belief

• If you look at a multi-player game, it's the people who are playing the game who are often more valuable than all of the animations and models and game logic that's associated with it.

  

  Gabe Newell
  • People
  • Game
  • Player

• Consequently he who wishes to attain to human perfection, must therefore first study Logic, next the various branches of Mathematics in their proper order, then Physics, and lastly Metaphysics.

  

  Maimonides
  • Study
  • Logic
  • Perfection

• No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.

  

  Samuel Butler
  • Mistake
  • Common
  • Logic

• The human brain works as a binary computer and can only analyze the exact information-based zeros and ones (or black and white). Our heart is more like a chemical computer that uses fuzzy logic to analyze information that can't be easily defined in zeros and ones.

  

  Naveen Jain
  • Heart
  • Black
  • Brain

• De-radicalisation begins by breaking down the logic which once seemed unassailable and rethinking what you are fighting for and why. That is hard to do when Islamists and Islamophobes feed off each other's hateful cliches.

  

  Maajid Nawaz
  • Why
  • Fighting
  • Down

• my father's rejection of all that is called religious belief, was not, as many might suppose, primarily a matter of logic and evidence: the grounds of it were moral, still more than intellectual. He found it impossible to believe that a world so full of evil was the work of an Author combining infinite power with perfect goodness and righteousness.

  

  John Stuart Mill
  • World
  • Work
  • Believe

• The nephew revenges himself for this, by holding his breath and terrifying his kinswoman with the dread belief that he has made up his mind to burst. Regardless of whispers and shakes, he swells and becomes discoloured, and yet again swells and becomes discoloured, until the aunt can bear it no longer, but leads him out, with no visible neck, and with his eyes going before him like a prawn's.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Belief
  • Neck
  • Revenges

• I am an atheist because there is no evidence for the existence of God. That should be all that needs to be said about it: no evidence, no belief.

  

  Dan Barker
  • Religion
  • Doubt
  • Belief

• mr youse needn't be so spry concernin questions arty each has his tastes but as for i i likes a certain party gimme the he-man's solid bliss for youse ideas i'll match youse a pretty girl who naked is is worth a million statues

  

  e. e. cummings
  • Pretty
  • Girl
  • Party

• If any man can convince me and bring home to me that I do not think or act aright, gladly will I change; for I search after truth, by which man never yet was harmed. But he is harmed who abideth on still in his deception and ignorance.

  

  Marcus Aurelius
  • Home
  • Truth
  • Ignorance

• Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Belief
  • Logic
  • Theory