Quotes with logical

  • If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
  • Not our logical faculty, but our imaginative one is king over us. I might say, priest and prophet to lead us to heaven-ward, or magician and wizard to lead us hellward.
  • Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
  • If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
  • Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
  • To get anywhere, or even live a long time, a man has to guess, and guess right, over and over again, without enough data for a logical answer.
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  • Victor Serge I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.
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  • A. R. Ammons Besides the actual reading in class of many poems, I would suggest you do two things: first, while teaching everything you can and keeping free of it, teach that poetry is a mode of discourse that differs from logical exposition.
    A. R. Ammons
    American poet (1926 - 2001)
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  • Billy Corgan Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
    Billy Corgan
    American musician, singer and songwriter (1967 - )
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  • George Bernard Shaw Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books nobody reads.
    George Bernard Shaw
    Irish-English writer and critic (1856 - 1950)
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  • W. H. Auden Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are ''shaggy dog'' stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.
    W. H. Auden
    American poet (1907 - 1973)
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  • Allen Tate Dramatic experience is not logical; it may be subdued to the kind of coherence that we indicate when we speak, in criticism, of form.
    Allen Tate
    American poet and essayist (1899 - 1979)
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  • Bertrand Russell Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
    Our Knowledge of the External World as a Field for Scientific Method in Philosophy
    Bertrand Russell
    English philosopher and mathematician (1872 - 1970)
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  • Abraham Joshua Heschel God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
    Abraham Joshua Heschel
    Polish-American rabbi (1907 - 1972)
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  • Sir Arthur Conan Doyle I never guess. It is a shocking habit - destructive to the logical faculty.
    Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
    British author (1859 - 1930)
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  • Louise Erdrich I prefer to have some beliefs that don't make logical sense.
    Louise Erdrich
    American author (1954 - )
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  • Martha Gellhorn I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.
    Martha Gellhorn
    American novelist, travel writer, and journalist (1908 - 1998)
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  • Mark Haddon I think prime numbers are like life. They are very logical but you could never work out the rules, even if you spent all your time thinking about them.
    The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time (2005) p. 34
    Mark Haddon
    English writer and illustrator (1962 - )
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  • Vannevar Bush If scientific reasoning were limited to the logical processes of arithmetic, we should not get very far in our understanding of the physical world. One might as well attempt to grasp the game of poker entirely by the use of the mathematics of probability.
    Vannevar Bush
     
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  • Rita Mae Brown If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • Rita Mae Brown If this were a logical world, men would ride side saddle.
    Rita Mae Brown
    American writer, activist, and feminist (1944 - )
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  • C. S. Lewis If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Gloria Steinem If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
    Gloria Steinem
    American feminist writer (1934 - )
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  • Roman Polanski If you have a great passion it seems that the logical thing is to see the fruit of it, and the fruit are children.
    Roman Polanski
    Polish-French actor and filmmaker (1933 - )
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  • Dean William R. Inge In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
    Dean William R. Inge
    Dean of St Paul's, London (1860 - 1954)
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  • Anatole Broyard Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
    Anatole Broyard
    American writer, literary critic, and editor (0 - 1990)
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