Cold Logic Quotes

#1. Cold completely introspective logic places a philosopher on the road to the abstract. Out of this empty, artificial act of thinking there can result, of course, nothing which bears on the relation of man to himself, and to the universe.

Albert Schweitzer

#2. There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going.

James Patterson

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

Becca Fitzpatrick

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

Anthony Lewis

#5. Emotions are like a virus, a common cold, disrupting the flow of logic in people's minds.

Clyde DeSouza

#6. I think that most of us instinctively avoid people with mental illness.

Brian Lindstrom

#7. For the past few weeks I have been laboring under the assumption that if people thought I was dead, they would stop annoying me and leave me alone.
I didn't respond right away. I examined his statement from every angle, and while I admired the logic, the cockeyed optimism left me cold.

Gary Reilly

#8. Character is incredibly jagged, and incredibly contextualized, even to the point where I still feel uncomfortable thinking about it.

L. Todd Rose

#9. I think, if one is a painter, all you experience does come out when you're painting.

Lee Krasner

#10. I was born in Cincinnati, Ohio. My family was not nationally known as being a literary family, though my mother and my mother's side of the family in general were interested in literature.

Kenneth Koch

#11. Hard to explain to a guard dog that you need it to protect you from yourself.

Dov Davidoff

#12. Logic has rid us of the absurdity of our clothes. That's progress, no irony, only now we are cold. Hale and ill trade bodies with unusual willingness, while in midair souls tangle. The young start out disgusted and Poetry is left to the memo-writers.

Odysseus Elytis

#13. Imogen looked at Ty, at the one man who could halt her stone-cold logic and make her just feel ... She needed that, to be caught off guard, to learn to trust her first gut reaction to her emotions. There had been no hesitation on her part - he had asked and her heart had sung out a big fat yes.

Erin McCarthy

#14. The divine power moves with difficulty, but at the same time surely.

Euripides

#15. In a nuclear age, and in an age of serious environmental degradation, apocalyptic belief creates a serious second order danger. The precarious logic of self-interest that saw us through the Cold War would collapse if the leaders of one nuclear state came to welcome, or ceased to fear mass death.

Ian McEwan

#16. Ruthlessness and cold logic, it seems, can accomplish almost anything.

Veronica Roth

#17. What would mathematics have amounted to without the imagination of its devotees-its giants and their followers? There never was a discovery made without the urge of imagination-of imagination which broke the roadway through the forest in order that cold logic might follow.

David Eugene Smith

#18. Passion has helped us; but can do so no more. It will in future be our enemy. Reason, cold, calculating, unimpassioned reason, must furnish all the materials for our future support and defence.

Abraham Lincoln

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

David Quammen

#20. It is our responsibility to learn to become emotionally intelligent. These are skills, they're not easy, nature didn't give them to us - we have to learn them.

Paul Ekman

#21. The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason.

Joost Meerloo

#22. Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.

Jawaharlal Nehru

#23. Every perversion has survived many tests of its capabilities.

Mason Cooley

#24. The world is ruled by such dreams, dreams of impassioned hearts, and improvisations of warm lips, not by cold words linked in chains of iron sequence,
not by logic. The heart with its passions, not the understanding with its reasoning, sways, in the long run, the actions of mankind.

William Kirby

#25. I laugh, mirthless, a mad laugh. I savor the scowl on her face, the hate in her eyes. She was like a machine; she was cold and emotionless, bound by logic alone. And I broke her.

Veronica Roth