915 Quotes About Logic
- Author Ansel Adams
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I have often had a retrospective vision where everything in my past life seems to fall with significance into logical sequence.
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- Author Peter Kreeft
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An argument in apologetics, when actually used in dialogue, is an extension of the arguer. The arguer's tone, sincerity, care, concern, listening, and respect matter as much as his or her logic - probably more. The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say.
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- Author Paul Lockhart
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So how does one go about proving something like this? It's not like being a lawyer, where the goal is to persuade other people; nor is it like a scientist testing a theory. This is a unique art form within the world of rational science. We are trying to craft a "poem of reason" that explains fully and clearly and satisfies the pickiest demands of logic, while at the same time giving us goosebumps.
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- Author Erich Segal
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The explanations for the things we do in life are many and complex. Supposedly mature adults should live by logic, listen to their reason. Think things out before they act.But maybe they never heard what Dr. London told me one, Freud said that for the little things in life we should react according to our reason. But for really big decisions, we should heed what our unconscious tells us.
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- Author Yevgeny Zamyatin
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I am like a machine being driven to excessive rotations: the bearings are incandescing and, in a minute, melted metal will begin to drip and everything will turn to nothing. Quick: get cold water, logic. I am pouring it over myself by the bucketload but the logic sizzles on the hot bearings and dissipates elusive white steam into the air.
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- Author Criss Jami
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Generally, there is a lot of truth value in stepping back, observing, then logically generalizing the extremes of what you see.
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- Author Ilona Andrews
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I`ll kill you and eat your guts while you sream." "Not in that order, you won`t.
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- Author Robert A. Heinlein
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His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.
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- Author Aristophanes
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It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls
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