Logic Quotes

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

In the case of Elektra I really wasn't sure I could pull it off. There were so many intellectual leaps. My character, Stick, is blind, but he can see better than most people. So I had trouble kind of finding the logic.

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.

The subject of my work has a lot to do with general, artistic matters, questions like: What is creativity? Where do we come from? What are our motors? What is coincidence? What is logic?

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

Without this spirit, Modernist architecture cannot fully exist. Since there is often a mismatch between the logic and the spirit of Modernism, I use architecture to reconcile the two.

It is the logic of consumerism that undermines the values of loyalty and permanence and promotes a different set of values that is destructive of family life.

Religious faith depends on a host of social, psychological and emotional factors that have little or nothing to do with probabilities, evidence and logic.

It may be that everything the life science companies are telling us will turn out to be right, and there's no problem here whatsoever. That defies logic.

The logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which could be applied universally.