Logical Thinking Quotes

• Pure logical thinking cannot yield us any knowledge of the empirical world. All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.

  Albert Einstein

  Science, Reality, Thinking

  Albert Einstein (2011). “Essays in Science”, p.18, Open Road Media

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• Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

  Niels Bohr

  Thinking, Addresses, Logical

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• Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

  Mason Cooley

  Thinking, Logic, Teach

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• No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

  Niels Bohr

  Inspirational, Life, Thinking

  Attributed to Niels Bohr in William Glen "The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis" (p. 62), 1994.

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• Logical thinking keeps you from wasting time worrying, or hoping. It prevents disappointment. Imagination, on the other hand, only gets you hyped up over things that will never realistically happen.

  Jodi Picoult

  Disappointment, Thinking, Hands

  Jodi Picoult (2012). “The Jodi Picoult Collection #4: Change of Heart, Handle with Care, and House Rules”, p.1291, Simon and Schuster

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• Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

  Rudolf Steiner

  Thinking, Impossible, Logical

  Rudolf Steiner (2006). “Cosmic Memory”, p.36, SteinerBooks

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• The concept of logical thinking is selection and this is brought about by the processes of acceptance and rejection. Rejection is the basis of logical thinking.

  Edward de Bono

  Acceptance, Thinking, Rejection

  Edward de Bono (2009). “Lateral Thinking: A Textbook of Creativity”, p.187, Penguin UK

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• Before I came along, my field was dominated by myth, superstition, deceit, and outright fraud. I overcame it by the simple application of logical thinking.

  Arthur Jones

  Simple, Thinking, Investing

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• Chess can help a child develop logical thinking, decision making, reasoning, and pattern recognition skills, which in turn can help math and verbal skills.

  Susan Polgar

  Children, Learning, Math

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• Totalitarian rule marks the sharpest contrast imaginable with political rule, and ideological thinking is an explicit and direct challenge to political thinking.

  Bernard Crick

  Thinking, Political, Challenges

  Bernard Crick (1993). “In Defense of Politics”, p.34, University of Chicago Press

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• Logical thinking will not be enough to get answers to the questions that matter most in life. We need revelation from God.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Thinking, Needs, Answers

  FaceBook post by Henry B Eyring from Oct 17, 2014

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• At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

  John Polkinghorne

  Thinking, Too Much, Theological

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• It is true that physics gives a wonderful training in precise, logical thinking-about physics. It really does depend upon accurate reproducible experiments, and upon framing hypotheses with the greatest possible freedom from dogmatic prejudice. And if these were the really important things in life, physics would be an essential study for everybody.

  Anthony Standen

  Life, Freedom, Science

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• The theory that gravitational attraction is inversely proportional to the square of the distance leads by remorseless logic to the conclusion that the path of a planet should be an ellipse .... It is this logical thinking that is the real meat of the physical sciences. The social scientist keeps the skin and throws away the meat.... His theorems no more follow from his postulates than the hunches of a horse player follow logically from the latest racing news. The result is guesswork clad in long flowing robes of gobbledygook.

  Anthony Standen

  Horse, Real, Distance

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• Ideological thinking becomes emancipated from the reality that we perceive with our five senses, and insists on a 'truer' reality concealed behind all perceptible things, dominating them from this place of concealment and requiring a sixth sense that enables us to become aware of it.

  Hannah Arendt

  Reality, Thinking, Five Senses

  Hannah Arendt (2017). “The Origins of Totalitarianism”, p.553, Penguin UK

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• To eliminate the discrepancy between men's plans and the results achieved, a new approach is necessary. Morphological thinking suggests that this new approach cannot be realized through increased teaching of specialized knowledge. This morphological analysis suggests that the essential fact has been overlooked that every human is potentially a genius. Education and dissemination of knowledge must assume a form which allows each student to absorb whatever develops his own genius, lest he become frustrated. The same outlook applies to the genius of the peoples as a whole.

  Fritz Zwicky

  Education, Teaching, Knowledge

  Morphological astronomy, The Observatory, Vol. 68, p. 121-143, 1948.

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• Our job is not to amuse our readers. Our mission is to stir them, inform and inflame them. Our task is to continually hold up our government and our leaders to clear-eyed analysis, unaffected by professional spinmeisters and agenda-pushers.

  Tony Auth

  Jobs, Independent, Reality

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• Of course, nobody would deny the importance of human beings for theological thinking, but the time span of history that theologians think about is a few thousand years of human culture rather than the fifteen billion years of the history of the universe.

  John Polkinghorne

  Thinking, Years, Culture

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• I learned a lot of different things from different schools. MIT is a very good place…. It has developed for itself a spirit, so that every member of the whole place thinks that it’s the most wonderful place in the world—it’s the center, somehow, of scientific and technological development in the United States, if not the world … and while you don’t get a good sense of proportion there, you do get an excellent sense of being with it and in it, and having motivation and desire to keep on

  Richard P. Feynman

  Motivation, Learning, School

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