Logic Quotes - Page 9

• The conception of the necessary unit of all that is resolves itself into the poverty of the imagination, and a freer logic emancipates us from the straitwaistcoated benevolent institution, which idealism palms off as the totality of being.

  Bertrand Russell

  Imagination, Poverty, Institutions

  "Our Knowledge of the External World". Book by Bertrand Russell, p. 9, 1914.

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• Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won't?

  L. J. Smith

  People, Vampire, Succeed

  L. J. Smith (2014). “The Vampire Diaries: The Return & The Hunters Collection: The Return: Nightfall, The Return: Shadow Souls, The Return: Midnight, The Hunters: Phantom, The Hunters: Moonsong, The Hunters: Destiny Rising”, p.116, Harper Collins

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• For once, I believe that PETA, at least on the level of logic, is correct. If the NCAA has to protect offended Native Americans ... by God, PETA ought to advocate for the protection of every organism in the animal kingdom.

  Tom Feeney

  God, Believe, Native American

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• Only professional mathematicians learn anything from proofs. Other people learn from explanations.

  Ralph P. Boas, Jr.

  Knowledge, Math, People

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• Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.

  Winston Churchill

  Innovation, Rationality

  Sir Winston Churchill (1954). “Sir Winston Churchill: a self-portrait”

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• The peasants have seen the future - Greece and France - and concluded that it does not work. Hence their opposition to Obama's proudly transformational New Foundation agenda. Their logic is impeccable: Only the most blinkered intellectual could be attempting to introduce social democracy to America precisely when the world's foremost exemplar of that model - Europe - is in chaotic meltdown.

  Charles Krauthammer

  America, Europe, Political

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• I reached in experience the nirvana which is unborn, unrivalled, secure from attachment, undecaying and unstained. This condition is indeed reached by me which is deep, difficult to see, difficult to understand, tranquil, excellent, beyond the reach of mere logic, subtle, and to be realized only by the wise.

  Gautama Buddha

  Wise, Buddhist, Inspiration

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• "Ganas is all you need."

  Jaime Escalante

  Knowledge, Math, Needs

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• Logic doesn't apply to the real world.

  Marvin Minsky

  Real, Knowledge, Math

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• The only way to learn mathematics is to do mathematics. That tenet is the foundation of the do-it-yourself, Socratic, or Texas method.

  Paul Halmos

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  P.R. Halmos, Paul Richard Halmos (1982). “A Hilbert Space Problem Book”, p.7, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Calculators can only calculate - they cannot do mathematics.

  John A. Van de Walle

  Education, Knowledge, Math

  John A. Van de Walle (1994). “Elementary School Mathematics: Teaching Developmentally”, Longman Publishing Group

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• Nothing is impossible when we follow our inner guidance, even when its direction may threaten us by reversing our usual logic.

  Gerald Jampolsky

  May, Usual, Impossible

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• Plurality is not to be posited without necessity.

  William of Ockham

  Witty

  William (of Ockham), Philotheus Boehner (1990). “Philosophical Writings: A Selection”, p.21, Hackett Publishing

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• Global warming, indeed much of environmentalism, has become a new religion. Like the old religions, environmentalism preaches much good sense, is well meaning, but has a worrying lack of logic at its core.

  Michael Hanlon

  Worry, Global Warming, Wells

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• I do not believe in the gifted. If [the students] have ganas, I can make them do it.

  Jaime Escalante

  Believe, Knowledge, Math

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• Belief was immune to logic; it operated by its own laws.

  James Siegel

  Law, Belief, Immune

  James Siegel (2005). “Detour”, Wheeler Pub Incorporated

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• How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth!

  Sophocles

  Knowledge, Oedipus, Ontology

  Sophocles (1977). “The Oedipus Cycle: An English Version”, Harcourt

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• A wise man sees failure as progress.
  A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic,
  And loses his soul in the process.

  Canibus

  Wise, Rap, Divorce

  Song: Poet Laureate II, Album: Rip the Jacker, 2003

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• Proof is an idol before which the mathematician tortures himself.

  Arthur Eddington

  Education, Knowledge, Math

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• "I see it, but I don't believe it."

  Richard Dedekind

  Believe, Ontology, Statistics

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• It is not enough for theory to describe and analyze, it must itself be an event in the universe it describes. In order to do this theory must partake of and become the acceleration of this logic. It must tear itself from all referents and take pride only in the future. Theory must operate on time at the cost of a deliberate distortion of present reality.

  Jean Baudrillard

  Pride, Reality, Order

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• If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Giving, Abuse, Argument

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1907). “The works of Robert G. Ingersoll”, p.3823, Library of Alexandria

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• I will follow my logic, no matter where it goes, after it has consulted with my heart. If you ever come to a conclusion without calling the heart in, you will come to a bad conclusion.

  Robert Green Ingersoll

  Life, Heart, Calling

  Robert Green Ingersoll (1902). “Political”

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• In short stories there's more permission to be elliptical. You can have image-logic, or it's almost like a poem in that you can come to a lot of meanings within a short space.

  Karen Russell

  Space, Insightful, Stories

  "Karen Russell on the Persistence of the Novelist". Interview with Brian Gresko, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 31, 2011.

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• The human mind is a story processor, not a logic processor.

  Jonathan Haidt

  Mind, Stories, Humans

  Jonathan Haidt (2012). “The Righteous Mind: Why Good People Are Divided by Politics and Religion”, p.281, Vintage

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