Logic Quotes

• 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

• We can find people on the internet who agree with our ideas, no matter how crazy. Democracies do not work if we are not operating on some level based on reason and fact and logic - and not just passion. We're going to have to find ways to push back on propaganda and listen to those we don't agree with.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • Work
  • Passion

• How can people in other countries who are trying to grasp our plan of democracy avoid stumbling over our logic when we deny the first steps in democracy to our women?

  

  Jeannette Rankin
  • People
  • Women
  • Trying

• Logic is the anatomy of thought.

  

  John Locke Nazareth
  • Thought
  • Logic
  • Anatomy

• Scholars and artists thrown together are often annoyed at the puzzle of where they differ. Both work from knowledge; but I suspectthey differ most importantly in the way their knowledge is come by. Scholars get theirs with conscientious thoroughness along projected lines of logic; poets theirs cavalierly and as it happens in and out of books. They stick to nothing deliberately, but let what will stick to them like burrs where they walk in the fields.

  

  Robert Frost
  • Work
  • Together
  • Knowledge

• Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.

  

  Daniel Tammet
  • Important
  • Alone
  • Intuition

• [The decay of Logic results from an] untroubled assumption that the particular is real and the universal is not.

  

  C. S. Lewis
  • Real
  • Assumption
  • Decay

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

  

  John Maynard Keynes
  • Poetry
  • Logic

• The more externally chaotic the world becomes, the more we need sound internal logic, especially when it comes to our emotions.

  

  Chip Conley
  • World
  • Logic

• Deskilling devices - they make us dumber. We're immersed in a system that now requires the use of a cell phone just to get around, just to function, and so the logic of that cell phone has been imposed on us.

  

  Douglas Tompkins
  • Logic

• Standing athwart ineffective, feel-good legislation shouting, 'Stop!' is seen as a betrayal of those struggling to get their footing on the lowest rung of the economic ladder. Yet raising the minimum wage hacks the lowest rungs off the ladder altogether. But economic logic doesn't wash with liberals who are intent on inflaming class warfare.

  

  Angela McGlowan
  • Good
  • Stop
  • Betrayal

• Art serves us best precisely at that point where it can shift our sense of what is possible, when we know more than we knew before, when we feel we have - by some manner of a leap - encountered the truth. That, by the logic of art, is always worth the pain.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Art
  • Truth
  • Pain

• The fact that all Mathematics is Symbolic Logic is one of the greatest discoveries of our age; and when this fact has been established, the remainder of the principles of mathematics consists in the analysis of Symbolic Logic itself.

  

  Bertrand Russell
  • Age
  • Logic

• My originality consists in putting the logic of the visible to the service of the invisible.

  

  Odilon Redon
  • Service
  • Invisible
  • Consists

• The best thing you can say about libertarians is that because their views derive from abstract theory, they tend to be highly principled and rigorous in their logic.

  

  Jacob Weisberg
  • Logic

• The belief that love is a finite essence that will eventually run out holds a certain logic for me even now, even if I am supposed to know better.

  

  Susanna Moore
  • Belief
  • Logic
  • Essence

• You need to be naive enough to do things differently. No big publishing house would have allowed us to co-create a fully designed, four color business book in landscape format - because it was contrary to the publishing industry logic. However, we thought of Business Model Generation as a product, not just a book - similar to Apple products.

  

  Alexander Osterwalder
  • Business
  • Book
  • House

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

  

  Willard Van Orman Quine
  • Belief
  • Theory
  • Texture

• I write fiction that reflects Islamic logic: fictional worlds where cause and effect are governed by Muslim rationale. However, my characters do not necessarily behave as 'good' Muslims; they are not ideals or role models.

  

  Leila Aboulela
  • Good
  • Logic
  • Islamic

• You're people, in short, who must be stupid, insane, or evil to continue arguing - in the face of indisputable facts and irrefutable logic - that others must be forced into a state of helplessness and victimized by individual criminals or the state. Stupid, insane, or evil.

  

  L. Neil Smith
  • People
  • Evil
  • Stupid

• I told him that I thought it was law logic - an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

  

  John Quincy Adams
  • Good
  • Law
  • Justice

• In life, particularly in public life, psychology is more powerful than logic.

  

  Ludwig Quidde
  • Life
  • Powerful
  • Psychology

• Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.

  

  Mason Cooley
  • Logic

• I am a plain practical man, not one of your theorists and splitters of hairs and choppers of logic.

  

  James G. Frazer
  • Logic
  • Plain
  • Theorists

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