Logician Quotes

#1. From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#2. To understand this for sense it is not required that a man should be a geometrician or a logician, but that he should be mad.

Thomas Hobbes

#3. If a man's life could be capitalized as X, the risk at Y, and the estimated damage from explosion at V, then a logician might contend that if V is less than X over Y, the bomb should be blown up; but if V over Y is greater than X, an attempt should be made to avoid explosion in situ.

Michael Ondaatje

#4. Contradictions do not perplex the logician. They arise because there are more rules to an open game than can be known.

Donald Kingsbury

#5. The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

George Santayana

#6. John was not a logician, but a seer; not a reasoner, but a mystic; he does not argue, but assert; he arrives at conclusions with one bound, as by direct intuition.

Philip Schaff

#7. There are things so deep and complex that only intuition can reach it in our stage of development as human beings. And to Poe ... well, a great logician could be an enemy to him, what he called conventional world reason.

John Astin

#8. My dear Watson," said [Sherlock Holmes], "I cannot agree with those who rank modesty among the virtues. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exaggerate one's own powers.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#9. Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Gloria Steinem

#10. I am not a logician. I am an existentialist. I believe in this meaningless, beautiful chaos of existence, and I am ready to go with it wherever it leads.

Rajneesh

#11. When asked why he doesn't believe in astrology, the logician Raymond Smullyan responds that he's a Gemini and Geminis never believe in astrology.

John Allen Paulos

#12. Remember this: one can be a strict logician or grammarian and at the same time full of imagination and music.

Hermann Hesse

#13. Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician.

Pierre Bourdieu

#14. The seed haunted by the sun never fails to find its way between the stones in the ground. And the pure logician, if no sun draws him forth, remains entangled in his logic.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

#15. The poet only asks to get his head into the heavens. It is the logician who seeks to get the heavens into his head. And it is his head that splits.

G.K. Chesterton

#16. To the logician all things should be seen exactly as they are, and to underestimate one's self is as much a departure from truth as to exagerate one's own powers.

Arthur Conan Doyle

#17. The American punctuation rule sticks in the craw of every computer scientist, logician, and linguist, because any ordering of typographical delimiters that fails to reflect the logical nesting of the content makes a shambles of their work.

Steven Pinker

#18. The heart is the best logician.

Wendell Phillips

#19. [I]t is funny because economists are not real scientists, and because logicians think more clearly, but mathematicians are best.

Mark Haddon

#20. We build this country ourselves every day and we have to be, in the most positive sense, totally unreal.

J.C. Villamere

#21. I do not regard killing or assassination or terrorism as good in any circumstances whatsoever.

Mahatma Gandhi

#22. Books were in my family - books were my family.

Joshua Cohen

#23. Keep clearly in mind the following truth: the things we keep foremost in our mind get our attention, and whatever gets our attention, gets done!

Josh Hinds

#24. I know a lot of people dread going to work every morning, but my work is playing pretend and doing stunts and screaming. It's a lot of fun and I get to play dress up. Every day is exciting and different and new and cool. I couldn't be more grateful.

Nina Dobrev

#25. [You] have what it takes to be a victorious, independent, fearless woman.

Tyra Banks

#26. Come on, I said, taking his hand. Clutching the afghan with the other hand, he trailed down the hall after me, a snow white giant in tiny red underwear.

Charlaine Harris

#27. Sun is shining gloriously from my words; and the day reaps gratitudes for me.

Kristian Goldmund Aumann

#28. I like to enjoy life, I like to engage in life, so I would say I'm a yes man.

Jim Carrey

#29. We have 2 million users in the U.S. and about 13 million worldwide in more than 200 countries. We're getting 80,000 new users each day. And more than half a million people are connected via Skype at any given moment.

Niklas Zennstrom

#30. If the union of these States, and the liberties of this people, shall be lost, it is but little to any one man of fifty-two yearsof age, but a great deal to the thirty millions of people who inhabit these United States, and to their posterity in all coming time.

Abraham Lincoln

#31. Failure is a teacher; a harsh one, but the best.

Thomas J. Watson

#32. If you don't almost fail, then it wasn't hard enough

Leo Houlding

#33. A lot of my songs are about death and the fleetingness of life. It just feels good to remind myself about that a lot. For whatever reason. And it's a beautiful thing, actually. It seems to me like it's a beautiful way to live in the world and to relate to things, with an awareness of temporality.

Phil Elvrum

#34. The reason some people put on a mask is not in their blood but it is in their fear that we judge them too soon.

Ameya Agrawal