Logic Quotations | Page 2

French painting today is the only school which counts; only it plunders the universe for the logic of the great traditions, only it is full of life.

I earned my Ph.D. in philosophy, and one of my specializations was the logic and mathematics of game theory. I've also got a degree in drama, so I know about stories, characterizations, plot arcs, and the like. Lots of game designers can do one or the other: I've got the skills for both.

Godfrey's wife, Charmian, sat with her eyes closed, attempting to put her thoughts into alphabetical order, which Godfrey had told her was better than no order at all since she now had grasp of neither logic nor chronology

For thousands of years, we've insisted that art can make us better people. Unless a brief can be fashioned that, by its very nature, art appeals only to the best in people and never the darkness, which defies both logic and intuition, then we have to acknowledge that art can make some of us worse.

I don't understand the governor's logic on it. It just seems like an assault, period, on the working class.

I don't understand the logic of moving City High.

CDW is undertaking an extensive sales force realignment to position its account managers along geographic territories. While we agree with the logic behind this initiative, transitioning accounts in a relationship-intensive business is likely to be disruptive to sales momentum.

Business logic changes all the time. This is what our clients are struggling with now.

I don't buy it, but that will be the logic for the team that picks him, that we have an extra pick to gamble on,

What I'll always be grateful to Amy for is that she never tried to apply her own logic to the character. During her audition, it struck me that she was really teaching me about the movie.

I am familiar with the arguments against taking action in the case of Saddam Hussein, ... Some concede that Saddam is evil, power hungry and a menace, but that until he crosses the threshold of actually possessing nuclear weapons, we should rule out any preemptive action. That logic seems to me to be deeply flawed.

He has been pretty active with these emergency boards, ... If there is a strike, I think it's highly probable it will be short. If there is no intervention, I think it could drag out for the weekend. At this point I'm assuming logic would prevail, it wouldn't go on much longer than that.

Imam Hussain is logic for all who listen, but we rarely do. We keep finding sins others own, and 'always' skip our own.

Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.

There is no difference between men and women and I tried to prove that even in logic men and women are on the same level.

Lloyds would give them (BBVA) an established low growth bank with high market share. The deal logic is not compelling.

Logic dictates contractors can't be self-employed and employees simultaneously. It might only be a matter of time before we see truly joined up government, whereby claims by contractors for employment rights automatically trigger tax investigations.

Logic is only a theory liable for most of the mystery.

Logic merely enables one to be wrong with authority.

Logic would dictate that, given the volume, the timetable for settling claims may be a little longer than normal.

Logic would say Roger has the upper hand in that situation.

Our logic was: there's nothing more depressing than taking a whacking great pay cut. I'd increase pay to get the productivity stuff because the productivity piece gnaws at you day in and day out.

Just as we Liberal Democrats opposed the flawed logic of that war in Iraq - we will oppose the flawed government claim that we have to surrender our fundamental rights in order to improve our security.

I'm still trying to find some logic to it all.

It defies logic to require blind students to take this course.

I suppose one can try to search for logic and a rational behind why people choose to buy certain products over others. If people are buying more products that support Bush, it may either suggest more confidence in the incumbent over Kerry. On the other hand, if products supporting the opponent are selling better, it could be a sign of waning confidence in the incumbent.

It is hard to see anything meaningful emerging. The talks weren't a step forward or backwards. The administration overestimated their power and logic and underestimated the problems and they are panicking.

Our arguments will carry the day because the force and logic and wisdom of the Founders are on our side.

I think he has a systematic inner logic whenever he's working, including acting. He knows exactly how he wants to proceed. It's best when people don't get in his way. I'm not saying he'd be rude, but it would throw him off. He doesn't need a lot of direction in his life. He knows just where he's going, in acting or anything else.

It doesn't pass the logic test that you can be a good parent one day as a foster parent, and as an adoptive parent you'll suddenly start developing new habits.

It doesn't take a rocket scientist to be good at poker. Anybody with a fourth-grade education can figure out the logic behind the odds and outs.

Today, the logic is to say that we must do everything to prevent unemployment, so companies should not be able to lay workers off. But the real question should be how do we make getting a job easier?

We had one situation a couple of years ago where we had a disgruntled user who figured out a way to hit the system hard. He got 83 slots between Aspen, Eagle and Rifle. We noticed that, so we just canceled them. We do watch that. There is some logic in the system for how soon there can be another reservation. There is some analysis there, and some monitoring to try to keep it reasonable.

The acquisition of the Marconi businesses has a compelling strategic logic and is a robust financial case. As fixed and mobile services converge, our customers will substantially benefit from this powerful combination.

When I first joined the Treasury some years ago, I can assure you we were not thinking about threats to the financial system emanating from viruses, Trojan Horses, logic bombs or malicious code, ... But we are thinking about those things now, and with good reason.

We expect a meaningful participation of Platform in the government and we expect far-reaching concessions. This is the logic of the situation.

I tended to be more a romantic than a realist, and chose blind faith over cold logic.

The P&O directors recommend unanimously the DP World revised offer and look forward to putting it to stockholders. The combination of P&O and DP World has compelling strategic logic and will create significant opportunities for both businesses and their employees.

We really like LSI Logic as one of the semiconductor picks. They have a broad exposure to consumer electronics, to digital cameras, to networking, to a lot of real important growth themes in the economy.

It is sad and wrong to be so dependent for the life of my life on any human being as I am on you; but I cannot by any force of logic cure myself at this date, when it has become second nature.

We humans are full of unpredictable emotions that logic alone cannot solve.

Dialectic logic is there's only love and hate, you either love somebody or you hate them.

There are values of humanity, culture, beauty, community that may require deviations from the cold logic of market theory.

You are nothing if not exhaustive in your self-congratulatory made-up logic.

Philosophy is a slow process of logic and logical discourse: A bringing B bringing C and so forth. In mysticism you can jump from A to Z. But the ultimate objective is the same. It's knowledge. It's truth.

When I feel the beauty in words, I am sensing the logic of heart.

seizing the swift logic of a woman, Curse God and die.

There is no logic that can be superimposed on the city; people make it, and it is to them, not buildings, that we must fit our plans.

The daftest logic brings such sweet unrest.

Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics.

Crime is common. Logic is rare. Therefore it is upon the logic rather than upon the crime that you should dwell.

Could it be that there were other things more desirable than cold logic and undefiled brain power?

Certainly, truth should be strenuous and bold; but the strongest things are not always the noisiest, as any one may see who compares scolding with logic.

I'm a logic monster, if things don't make sense I gotta make sense of them.

We operate more on emotion than logic and when we react, we don't think logically.

Pleasure has no logic; it never treads in its own footsteps.

The demonstration of logic in a magnetic system opens the door to all-magnetic information processing systems, including memory and logic.

But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value; just as logic has its own peculiar truth and value, independently of the subjects to which we may apply its reasonings and processes.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

After all, man is a complicated being, why should he be explainable by logic?

There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.

The best magic always results from ecstasies of logic.

The best medicine for pain sometimes is some kind of logic and common sense from older folks. They tell you, "Okay, you're not the only one who actually went through this."

The devil has a Ph.D. in perfect logic.

It was a distorted form of inverse logic: If hopes never come true, then hope for what you don't want.

There is something more important than logic: imagination

Radicalism is but the desperation of logic.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

The world is more than the sum of its suffering.

In every enterprise ... the mind is always reasoning, and, even when we seem to act without a motive, an instinctive logic still directs the mind. Only we are not aware of it, because we begin by reasoning before we know or say that we are reasoning, just as we begin by speaking before we observe that we are speaking, and just as we begin by seeing and hearing before we know what we see or what we hear.

Religions are not proved, are not demonstrated, are not established, are not overthrown by logic! They are of all the mysteries of nature and the human mind, the most mysterious and most inexplicable; they are of instinct and not of reason.

Chess is not only knowledge and logic

Mathematics and logic have been proved to be one; a fact from which it seems to follow that mathematics may successfully deal with non-quantitative problems in a much broader sense than was suspected to be possible.

To see what is general in what is particular, and what is permanent in what is transitory, is the aim of scientific thought.

I told him it was law logic-an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

Logic and faith don't occupy the same side.

NASCAR logic isn't always logical.

The usefulness of madmen is famous: they demonstrate society's logic flagrantly carried out down to its last scrimshaw scrap.

If logic was anything, all men would ride sidesaddles..

We came into a homeless frontier, a place where we were not welcome, where nothing that lived was welcome, where thought and logic were abhorrent and we were frightened, but we went into this place because the universe lay before us, and if we were to know ourselves, we must know the universe

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong.

For anybody who's ever been on the other end of, like, racial violence logic is not something that can be used.

With WWF, Microsoft will let programmers isolate process logic and business rules as they create composite applications.

If the logic of capitalism is "expand or die," then either it has to die or the world has to die.

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Mathematics is distinguished from all other sciences except only ethics, in standing in no need of ethics.

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

There's only one thing you can use against pure logic, and that's common sense.

Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.

There is no logic like the logic of the heart.

Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.

We have been snared in the coils of a spurious logic which insists that if we have found Him we need no more seek Him.

There is no logic for the staff's position. Somebody needs to show me where those roads will connect.

There is no logic to supporting the King. He has done a travesty to democracy.

There is no question to enter into the logic of quotas,

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

Customers want technologies to work for them rather than the other way around. Customers are seeing the logic of having all these things work together better.

Today's ruling defies logic and common sense by saying that children can have two moms. That policy establishes that moms and dads as a unit are irrelevant when it comes to raising children.

War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had still kept head in air, Protesting logic or protesting love, Until the unendurable moment struck - The inward scre