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Logic Quotes

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

– Mr. Spock

Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (1991 Film).

I think anything goes in fiction as long as it fits within the interior logic of the work itself and is presented in a disciplined manner.

– Hanya Yanagihara

Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.

– Gregory Bateson

Language is remarkable, except under the extreme constraints of mathematics and logic, it never can talk only about what it’s supposed to talk about but is always spreading around.

– Howard Nemerov

Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.

– Gregory Bateson

The discipline, particularly in these urban schools for the poor, it’s not controlled by the administration – they’re controlled by the police. This is an expression of a racist logic that has now seeped directly into schools.

– Henry Giroux

Logic is no answer to passion.

– Herb Caen

War, in our country, ought never to be resorted to but when it is clearly justifiable and necessary; so much so as not to require the aid of logic to convince our understanding nor the ardour of eloquence to inflame our passions. There are many reasons why this country should never resort to it but for causes the most urgent and necessary.

– John C. Calhoun

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

– Jean de la Bruyere

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean?

– Jason Schwartzman

Theology is the logic of the Devil.

– Jose Bergamin

Much of my work in this period was concerned with exploring the logic of economic models, but also with attempting to reconcile the models with every day observation.

– Joseph Stiglitz

A line, an area of tone, is not really important because it records what you have seen, but because of what it will lead you on to see. Following up its logic in order to check its accuracy, you find confirmation or denial in the object itself or in your memory of it.

– John Berger

I was always a visual person. I could see things visually. I had a harder time with numbers and logic, and I always had more of an artistic sensibility. So that I could do. And it was something that I really loved.

– Bruce Davison

Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.

– Jean Piaget

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

– A. N. Wilson

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

– Joseph Joubert

He’s suffering from Politicians’ Logic. Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it.

– Antony Jay

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

– Charles Sanders Peirce

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

– Ambrose Bierce

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

– Alexander Alekhine

A song sometimes ends up with its own internal logic.

– Adam Schlesinger

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

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

– Benjamin Jowett

Let’s assume for the moment that the logic behind Presidents Day is actually sound for certain presidents. Why not have a separate holiday for Lincoln and one for Washington – as we used to do, before we became so concerned with the ‘Every President Gets a Trophy’ ethos?

– Ben Shapiro

Logic, sometimes has very little to do with political action.

– Alexander Mackenzie

There’s always some kind of hidden logic.

– Christian Lacroix

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

– Bernard DeVoto

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

– Beatrice Webb

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

– Charles Lindbergh

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