Logic Quotes

• In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.

  

  Ian Mcewan
  • War
  • Age
  • Death

• The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

  

  Logic
  • Life
  • Alone
  • Logic

• Rosemary’s reputation was known; he would, by obscure logic, become retrospectively a cuckold.

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Logic

• It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover. To know how to criticize is good, to know how to create is better.

  

  Logic
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Intuition

• I spent a lot of time on farms when I was growing up, and I've been obsessed with the practical logic of farmyards - the turning radius of tractors, where the chickens and ducks might go. It's not a place where stand-alone aesthetic decisions make a lot of sense.

  

  Jaquelin T. Robertson
  • Up
  • Time
  • Growing

• Our recent 5-year labour agreements, in Canada as well as the United States, are based upon experience, logic and principle rather than on pressure, propaganda and force.

  

  Charles E. Wilson
  • Experience
  • Logic

• I love the psychology versus math and logic. In algebra, "X" means any possible variable. I sort of think about "X" in terms of the equation of my own life. Adding "X" to my own life has given me a freedom that I didn't have before in the equation of my own existence.

  

  Alexandra Ashley Hughes Austra
  • Thinking
  • Mean
  • Psychology

• Logic is in the eye of the logician.

  

  Logic
  • Logic

• It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved.

  

  Irwin Edman
  • Men
  • Reason
  • Logic

• Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Tree
  • Logic
  • Grammar

• Beneath words and logic are emotional connections that largely direct how we use our words and logic.

  

  Jane Roberts
  • Words
  • Emotional
  • Logic

• The best music always results from ecstasies of logic.

  

  Alban Berg
  • Music
  • Logic

• The petty logic of political parties cannot be allowed to stifle the French people's legitimate aspirations to safety and liberty.

  

  Marine Le Pen
  • People
  • Political
  • Safety

• Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason.

  

  Sarah Ban Breathnach
  • Logic
  • Events
  • Ridicule

• Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

  

  Charles Sanders Peirce
  • Good
  • Bad
  • Logic

• The state-initiated referendum has always been a part of this anti-democratic logic. Stop the talk, we're going to decide, yes or no. At this point the citizen's role is to wave one flag or the other and cheer for one side of the simple question or the other. In other words, we're reduced to children.

  

  John Ralston Saul
  • Children
  • Words
  • Stop

• Instinct leads, logic does but follow.

  

  William James
  • Doe
  • Intuition
  • Instinct

• If human language, with its logic, is the way God has given us to understand the world, then the Torah must be understood in that same language and with that same logic.

  

  David Novak
  • World
  • God
  • Logic

• Logic, like lyrical poetry, is no employment for the middle-aged,

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Poetry
  • Logic

• Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

  

  Ambrose Bierce
  • Thinking
  • Art
  • Logic

• For 'Is' and 'Is-not' though with Rule and Line And 'Up' and 'Down' by Logic I define, Of all that one should care to fathom, Was never deep in anything but - Wine.

  

  Omar Khayyam
  • Up
  • Deep
  • Wine

• R. A. Fisher, J. Neyman, R. von Mises, W. Feller, and L. J. Savage denied vehemently that probability theory is an extension of logic, and accused Laplace and Jeffreys of committing metaphysical nonsense for thinking that it is.

  

  Logic
  • Thinking
  • Logic
  • Savage

• Logic is concerned with arguments, good and bad. With the docile and the reasonable, arguments are sometimes useful in settling disputes. With the reasonable, this utility attaches only to good arguments. It is the logician’s business to serve the reasonable. Therefore, in the realm of arguments, it is the logician who distinguishes good from bad.

  

  Logic
  • Good
  • Business
  • Bad

• My mother was an economics professor. I'm proficient in math, and statistics, game theory, symbolic logic and all of that.

  

  Dave Hickey
  • Mother
  • Game
  • Math

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