Logic Quotes

Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - You write backward Es!

There's always some kind of hidden logic.

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat, but in the evolution of real knowledge it marks the first step in progress toward a victory.

Victims suggest innocence. And innocence, by the inexorable logic that governs all relational terms, suggests guilt.

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

We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.

He was very much concerned with logic and function, he always worked his solos out before playing them.

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality.

A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

In an approximate way, the logic of commons has been understood for a long time, perhaps since the discovery of agriculture or the invention of private property in real estate.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

You have to play the logic of a character.

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

I read one or two other books which gave me a background in mathematics other than logic.

When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion.

At the time, my personal research objectives were to provide Keynesian economics with more rigorous foundations and to tighten and elaborate the logic of macroeconomic and monetary theory.

Bobby is really the one who did all the editing on that stuff. And he did all the mixing. I particularly like the record we did with Logic because Scott Harding did a great job mixing it. He's really a killing engineer.

It is advertising and the logic of consumerism that governs the depiction of reality in the mass media.

Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

Neither Aristotelian nor Russellian rules give the exact logic of any expression of ordinary language; for ordinary language has no exact logic.

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

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.

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are different from yours. Of course, I don't think they believe that. It's just an argument that's made when you can't confront the truth and facts. They really want to maintain power.

A good designer must rely on experience, on precise, logic thinking; and on pedantic exactness. No magic will do.