Illogic Quotes

#1. Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.

E. O. Wilson

#2. May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant

Leonard Nimoy

#3. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitable end up at a point of illogic, an article of faith? Even an indisputable fact must be chosen as the place to start reasoning, given weight by a mind that believed in its worth.

Rachel Hartman

#4. England is the breeding ground of fundamentalist Muslims. Its social logic is to allow all religions to preach openly. But this is illogic, because none of the other religions preach apocalyptic violence. And yet England allows it.

Wole Soyinka

#5. In all its myriad manifestations, the language of anti-Semitism through the ages is a dictionary of non-sequiturs and antonyms, a thesaurus of illogic and inconsistency.

Paul Johnson

#6. As a child, I loved fairy tales because the story, the what-comes-next, is paramount. As an adult, I'm fascinated by their logic and illogic.

Gail Carson Levine

#7. Wrong to seal illogic with a kiss but I do it myself all the time.

Jeanette Winterson

#8. This time I would choose to err on the side of illogic. I had to trust intuition, and plunge as I had never plunged before, with blind faith.

Dean Koontz

#9. I shall freckle."
"That doesn't bother me," he said with a shrug.
"It bothers me!"
"Don't worry. They'll be on your own face, so you won't have to see them."
Ellie gaped at him, astounded by his illogic.

Julia Quinn

#10. That which is inherently nonfinanceable is financed. That which is inherently financeable is not financed. And the illogic of poverty amidst eagerness and ability to produce plenty goes on.

Louis O. Kelso

#11. A journey - whether it's to the corner grocery or through life - is supposed to have a beginning, middle, and end, right? Well, the road is not like that at all. It's the very illogic and the juxtaposed differences of the road - combined with our search for meaning - that make travel so addictive.

Gloria Steinem

#12. If you really want to be secure, you will have to live a life of insecurity. If you really want to be alive, you will have to be ready to die at any moment. This is the illogic of life! If you want to be authentically true, then you will have to risk. Repression is a way to avoid the risk. For

Osho

#13. When I'm stuck for a closing to a lyric, I will drag out my last resort: overwhelming illogic.

David Bowie

#14. Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed with it. If you followed logic all the way back to its origin, did you inevitably end up at point of illogic, an article of faith?

Rachel Hartman

#15. God is the ace up the sleeve of illogic.

Sylvia Iparraguirre

#16. No rational response was possible. Her irrationality made it so. The terrible power, he thought, of illogic.

Philip K. Dick

#17. In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is that it protects the perineum from injury, a protection accomplished by slicing through perineal skin, connective, tissue, and muscle.

Henci Goer

#18. Faith is the soul riding at anchor.

Josh Billings

#19. A feeling of continuous growth is a wonderful source of motivation and self confidence.

Brian Tracy

#20. An ideal is an unselfish aspiration. Its purpose is the general welfare not only of this but of future generations. It is a thing of the spirit. It is a generous and humane desire that all men may share equally in a common good. Our ideals are the cement, which binds human society.

Herbert Hoover

#21. Victories in the field count for little if the right decisions are not taken at home (45) - Cicero

Anthony Everitt

#22. You're surrounded by electronic music in New York. I mean New York is one of the few places in North America where electronic music is the prevalent form.

Bob Mould

#23. Even though jeans suit me, I never wear jeans.

Carine Roitfeld

#24. The pirating thing is bad. The people it hurts the most are the ones you least think it hurts. It's not the big Britney Spears albums that are being pirated; it's the indie bands that don't have two cents to their name.

Rob Zombie

#25. We must trust infinitely to the beneficent necessity which shines through all laws. Human nature expresses itself in them as characteristically as in statues, or songs, or railroads, and an abstract of the codes of nations would be an abstract of the common conscience.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

#26. And Bish thought it strange that seventeen-year-old girls who had sex with idiot boys could still cry like babies for their fathers.

Melina Marchetta

#27. In my headphones, I led a life of romance and incident and intrigue, none of which had anything to do with the world outside my Walkman.

Rob Sheffield

#28. Both women and computer science are the losers when a geeky stereotype serves as an unnecessary gatekeeper to the profession.

Cordelia Fine

#29. Your second ducat, like your second million, is never quite as sweet.

William Poundstone

#30. Sometimes, the things people don't say speak louder than the things they do, though.

Andrea Randall

#31. A Gorean slave girl in the presence of a free man or woman always kneels, unless excused from doing so.

John Norman