Logic Over Emotion Quotes

#1. Is that the way you live your life, logic over emotion?"
"That's the way I run my business. Up to now, there hasn't been any overlap.

Alexia Adams

#2. 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

#3. Fighting emotion with logic is like bringing a calculator to a knife fight

Josh Sundquist

#4. When dealing with people, let us remember we are not dealing with creatures of logic. We are dealing with creatures of emotion, creatures bristling with prejudices and motivated by pride and vanity.

Dale Carnegie

#5. Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.

Will Smith

#6. It is not the logical part of thinking that changes emotions but the perceptual part. If we see something differently, our emotions may alter with the altered perception. (p64)

Edward De Bono

#7. I dread naming pieces of music because being instrumental, most of the time the songs that I write are instrumental, I want the listener to make up their own story as to what it is and get the emotion pure without using logic.

Yanni

#8. Logic in all its infinite potential, is the most dangerous of vices. For one can always find some form of logic to justify his action, and rest comfortably in the assurance, that what he did abides by reason. That is why, for us brittle beings, Intention is the only true weapon of peace.

Ilyas Kassam

#9. If only the choice of whom you fall for were that easy. None of us choose who we love, Jask. If it were about reason and logic and choice, it would be science, not emotion. It would stop being magic.

Lindsay J. Pryor

#10. You sell on emotion, but you justify a purchase with logic.

Joseph Sugarman

#11. They are attracted to something or someone, and they make these initial "decisions" about being attracted based on emotion, not logic. In

John Alanis

#12. My logic's been drowned in a sea of emotion.

Sting

#13. Win with your heart, not your head - win on emotion, not in logic; have a passion about what you do; nobody wants a boss, everybody wants a coach.

Arthur L. Williams Jr.

#14. Logic will never change emotion or perception.

Edward De Bono

#15. Emotion will never seize to prevail logic.

Markus W. Lunner

#16. A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Rabindranath Tagore

#17. To want to tackle everything rationally is irrational.

Ilyas Kassam

#18. Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.

Jonathan Alter

#19. Logic won't change an emotion but action will.

Zig Ziglar

#20. Horror is about dreams and heightened states. It really is about taking away the logic on some level and getting right to the emotion of something.

Tim Minear

#21. Physical injury carries with it the fallout of mental injury, the damage never being equal to the traumatic event. E does not equal MC2 in this particular case. The logic of emotion carries no logic and hurt is an emotional value. I'm unsure what that value equals.

Carla R. Herrera

#22. Truth is on the side of compassion.

Christina Hoff Sommers

#23. There may be more danger in prejudices which are apparently founded in logic than in those which are acknowledged as emotions. (p69)

Edward De Bono

#24. Emotion kicked logic's ass.
He was going after Quinn.

Alyssa Day

#25. Mindless action without a real understanding of the ramifications is only likely to result in serious miscalculations or a colossal waste of time. Avoid both by using your judgment, filtered through both knowledge and experience. Use common sense and logic as a counterbalance to emotion.

David Amerland

#26. We tend to think of emotion and logic as two distinct, mutually exclusive domains. Not Steve. From the beginning, when making decisions, passion was a key part of his calculus.

Ed Catmull

#27. We seek out a balance, most notably between logic and emotion, like Spock and Kirk, or Data and Data in that episode where his emotion chip overloaded his positronic relays. You

Russ Unger

#28. Love is not love if it compelled by reason and driven by logic - love exists in spite of those things, not because of them. It is a emotion which needs no fuel to fire it or oxygen to feed it; if you have to look for the why, then stop looking; it was never there at all.

Julia Cameron

#29. Ruthlessness is the most practical of emotions, Reen's voice whispered. She ignored it.

Brandon Sanderson

#30. Our emotions are PURE, our logic is KORRUPT

Capital STEEZ

#31. Credibility sets the stage. Logic leads to conclusion. Emotion leads to action. Strategically balancing all three persuades conversion.

Alex Harris

#32. This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook.

Larry Elder