Top 100 Quotes About Logical
#1. All philosophy is a 'critique of language' (though not in Mauthner's sense). It was Russell who performed the service of showing that the apparent logical form of a proposition need not be its real one.
Ludwig Wittgenstein
#2. Logical activity is not the whole of intelligence. One can be intelligent without being particularly logical.
Jean Piaget
#3. Now this principle of induction cannot be a purely logical truth like a tautology or an analytic statement ...
Karl Popper
#4. Two people can see the same thing, disagree, and yet both be right. It's not logical; it's psychological.
Stephen R. Covey
#5. Two factors explain our success. One, MIT's renaissance after World War II as a federally supported research resource. Two, the mathematical revolution in macro- and micro-economic theory and statistics. This was overdue and inevitable, MIT was the logical place for it to flourish.
Paul Samuelson
#6. So, how to stay inside the world of entertainment without actually getting another job? I felt the only logical answer was to become a novelist. So I wrote the first book - driven by some very real feelings of desperation - and it worked.
Lee Child
#7. I was a litigation lawyer. That's all very logical. Become a litigation lawyer. Become successful. Have a nice office. But there was some pull inside of me saying, self-publish this book. I followed that intuition and it's been a great choice for me in my life.
Robin S. Sharma
#8. Why people become writers??
It's logical, they don't have what to do and they are bored and they want to show people a new world. So they create it!
Why people watch films??
Because they want to feel the taste of the reality!
Everything is logical, think before you ask!
Deyth Banger
#9. In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.
William Ralph Inge
#10. Wouldn't it be most logical for her to change herself into a living thing, like a cat or dog, a bird or mouse?'
That would be the easiest transformation, but Risto is above doing something simple.'
Still, I'd be happier if Dibl would quit eating those bugs. Dibl, stop it. You might eat Gilda.
Donita K. Paul
#11. Hitler wanted to hear all about the American skyscrapers ... but failed utterly to draw logical conclusions from the information ... He was passionately interested in the Ku Klux Klan ... He seemed to think it was a political movement similar to his own.
Ernst Hanfstaengl
#12. A man may lack everything but tact and conviction and still be a forcible speaker; but without these nothing will avail ... Fluency, grace, logical order, and the like, are merely the decorative surface of oratory.
Charles Horton Cooley
#13. As a logical thinker, I cannot help thinking, based on the evidence, that many people who exhibit dramatic reactions to bad news involving strangers are hypocrites.
John Elder Robison
#14. Lord Bacon said, "Writing makes an exact man." He spoke the truth. Writing produces exactitude by forcing you to set down ideas in logical relation to one another. Writing crystallizes your thoughts and makes your ideas specific.
John Haggai
#15. There is no logical reason why girls shouldn't play baseball. It's not all that tough.
Hank Aaron
#16. To me this is the most beautiful, the most satisfactory from a scientific standpoint, the most logical theory of life. For thirty years I have leaned toward the theory of Reincarnation. It seems a most reasonable philosophy and explains many things.
Henry Ford
#17. The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices against half the human race that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
Eva Figes
#18. Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.
Bertrand Russell
#19. No one has to learn to spell to talk, right? You see a little kid holding a conversation with an adult. He probably doesn't know the words he's saying, but he knows where to fit them to make what he's thinking logical to what you're saying.
Ornette Coleman
#20. The Grand Old Party's abiding affection for a 'bigger and better' presidency isn't entirely logical. After all, the Obama presidency commenced with an effort to reenact the Hundred Days. Yet President Obama's first-term economic performance itself was not 'big' but mediocre - tiny, even.
Amity Shlaes
#21. We delude ourselves when we suppose than the main impact of speech lies in the words (as opposed to the voice), just as we delude ourselves when we cite logical reasons, which are actually rationalizations or justifications, for our decisions.
Charles Eisenstein
#22. Human behavior isn't necessarily logical, nor does it necessarily conform to our expectations. What each of us thinks of as logical is a reflection of our own beliefs, and of our own moral compass.
Philip Houston
#23. If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?
Sam Harris
#24. For America today organic architecture interprets (will eventually build) this local embodiment of human freedom. This natural architecture seeks spaciousness, grace and openness; lightness and strength so completely balanced and logical that it is a new integrity ...
Frank Lloyd Wright
#25. If asked for an opinion we'll say what we think. And by "what we think" I mean the answer that comes to our mind first, seems most logical and requires the least amount of effort to articulate, while getting us in the least amount of trouble. Really that's what our communication boils down to.
Aaron Blaylock
#26. We can't help who we love. Love isn't logical, or even our choice. Love chooses us.
Susane Colasanti
#27. I found an online knife store. I'd rather go and pick one up so that I had it today, but then I noticed they had a category called. California Legal. Apparently, I lived in a state that had really solid knife control-but still allowed you to own a machine gun. Logical.
Marshall Thornton
#28. In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.
Paul McCartney
#29. The idea that a large group of people believing in something automatically makes it true is a logical fallacy called argumentum ad populum.
Armin Navabi
#30. When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.
Sam Harris
#31. Logical Tom begs emotional stupid dickhead Tom not to ask the question.
'Are you alone?' he asks quietly.
He hears her breathing so close to his ear.
'Yes.'
'Good,' he says, his voice croaky. 'I'll sleep like a baby.
Melina Marchetta
#32. I suppose ye might give him a wee dram that would keep him quiet so ye could tell them he was gone. Or maybe lock him in a closet? Tied up wi' a gag if it should be he's got his voice back by then, he added. Germain was a very logical, thorough-minded sort of person; he got it from Marsali.
Diana Gabaldon
#33. Anything, anything at all can be logical. For something to be logical, it just has to be a valid example of reasoning from some set of premises.
Mark C. Chu-Carroll
#34. People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
Zig Ziglar
#35. Keep a logical but open mind. What one may pass off as a psychological dysfunction could be a burst of imagination at its finest.
Lauren Lola
#36. Does this means something!?
- Does it mean that you are again on the same opinion... no reason to ask you... no reason to say it again... it's logical.
Deyth Banger
#37. Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic.
Frank Herbert
#38. Courtney's emotions had always been controlled and steady, logical and levelheaded. But around Brett, it was like she was on a high-speed roller coaster with steep drops and corkscrew turns, and she never wanted to get off.
Michelle Madow
#39. Playing for complications is an extreme measure that a player should adopt only when he cannot find a clear and logical plan.
Alexander Alekhine
#40. That which is beautiful is magnified by being shared with others.That which is painful is often moderated by being shared. Both are logical. -Spock
Alan Dean Foster
#41. People didn't understand how she found comfort in numbers. They soothed her because they were logical and constant. One plus one was always two, not three or four depending on their mood.
Nadia Lee
#42. Perhaps art criticism cannot be reformed in a logical sense because it was never well-formed in the first place. Art criticism has long been a mongrel among academic pursuits, borrowing whatever it needed from other fields ...
James Elkins
#43. Love isn't logical or reasonable. Our hearts make no sense.
Jay Crownover
#44. How many movements began when an aesthetic encounter indelibly changed our past perceptions of the world? It was an abolitionist's print, not logical argument, which dealt the final blow to the slave trade - the broadside of Description of a Slave Ship (1789).
Sarah Lewis
#45. Plus, dreams don't have to be logical, do they? Dreams are poems from the subconscious.
Stephen King
#46. Elephants are like humans. They are very smart, very logical.
Peter Beard
#47. They tear each other apart. Sometimes there aren't any happy endings or logical explanations and we just have to accept that and move on. Sometimes it really is that simple.
Sarah Ockler
#48. The simplest thought, like the concept of the number one, has an elaborate logical underpinning.
Carl Sagan
#49. As simple as that, Conrad had finally done it. For the first time in his life he had the right answer. It wasn't the best decision and certainly wasn't a logical one, but it was the right one.
Victoria Forester
#50. Qualities I sought in a scientific theory were naturalness, inner perfection and logical simplicity from an aesthetic approach.
Albert Einstein
#51. Things are not necessarily logical. Logic is a secondary source reference. Everything is what it is. We have decided to apply rationale to things. It makes us feel better.
Frederick Lenz
#52. An aphorism is a mental exercise, psychical, logical, linguistic, spiritual, ritual, emotional and rational, it is a major conceptual and literary activity, a mixture of prose and poetry that conveys, in addition to ideology, sympathy or antipathy.
William C. Brown
#53. If a city has a 30% Negro population, then it is logical to assume that Negroes should have at least 30% of the jobs in any particular company, and jobs in all categories rather than only in menial areas.
Martin Luther King Jr.
#54. The cross. He held one in his hand, gold and shiny in the morning sun. This, too, drove the vampires away.
Why? Was there a logical answer, something he could accept without slipping on banana skins of mysticism?
Richard Matheson
#55. When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of the belief which he finds in himself.
Bertrand Russell
#56. What would Belle do?
She would take stock of the situation and think of all the resources available to her and then make use of them in a logical and consistent manner.
Liz Braswell
#57. Several sellers of hot meat pies and sausages in a bun had appeared from nowhere and were doing a brisk trade. [Footnote: They always do, everywhere. No-one sees them arrive. The logical explaination is that the franchise includes the stall, the paper hat and a small gas-powered time machine.]
Terry Pratchett
#58. The biggest difference for me is that the tales really have no logical outlet, no particular infrastructure in which to present them as you would have with a film festival. There's no IMDb for audio dramas. So there's a lot of work with no particular reward.
Larry Fessenden
#59. Some people are better at seeing things through to a logical conclusion as far as copying things they like from other people's records; they understand what Brian Eno did and they just do it.
Alexis Taylor
#60. The language of judicial decision is mainly the language of logic. And the logical method and form flatter that longing for certainty and for repose which is in every human mind. But certainty generally is illusion, and repose is not the destiny of man.
Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr.
#61. I was not dressed crazily - I was dressed as a horse. And for a very logical and sane reason.
Diane Messidoro
#62. There is something very fragile about the beginning stages of psychic development. Eventually, one becomes very strong and the cushioning isn't as necessary. It's still logical because we live in an abrasive world.
Frederick Lenz
#63. Developing a compiler was a logical move; but in matters like this, you don't run against logic - you run against people who can't change their minds.
Grace Hopper
#64. The woman who is about to deceive her husband always carefully thinks out how she is going to act, but she is never logical.
Honore De Balzac
#66. Carried to its final extreme, the logical end of this type of reaction to life is suicide. The hard-bitten kind of person is always, as it were, a partial suicide; some of himself is already dead
Alan Watts
#67. There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.
Rebecca West
#68. The only logical thing I can think of is that I knew there were such things as artists, and I knew there were none where I lived. So I knew that to be an artist you had to be somewhere else. And I very much wanted to be somewhere else.
Jasper Johns
#69. For example, the philosophers who were interested in logic were probably rather logical for mathematicians. But the ASL got us together, so we could talk to each other and publish in the same journal.
Stephen Cole Kleene
#70. When the experts' scientific knowledge is legitimated in terms of being rational, logical, efficient, educated, progressive, modern, and enlightened, what analogies can other segments of society . . . utilize to challenge them?
Martin Guevara Urbina
#71. [F]ree will seems to violate all we know of how the world works, but as long as we cannot construct a logical proof of its nonexistence we cling to it tenaciously, even desperately.
Jeffrey M. Schwartz
#72. When I write my books, actually, I'm known for very logical rule-based magic systems. I write with one foot in fantasy and one foot in science fiction.
Brandon Sanderson
#73. I succeeded by following the same method, which consists in regarding the problem as solved and deducing from the solution all logical consequences.
Rene Daumal
#74. If Joe thought that simple and logical was going to work, he was in for a world of hurt living for two months with three females.
Kristen Ashley
#75. The system should speak the users' language, with words, phrases and concepts familiar to the user, rather than system-oriented terms. Follow real-world conventions, making information appear in a natural and logical order.
Jakob Nielsen
#76. College professors have two bad traits. They are logical
and they are easily flattered.
Gertrude Stein
#77. Special emphasis should be laid on this intimate interrelation of general statements about empirical fact with the logical elements and structure of theoretical systems.
Talcott Parsons
#78. I deal with football from a realistic, logical point of view.
Joe Namath
#79. When someone is taught the joy of learning, it becomes a life-long process that never stops, a process that creates a logical individual. That is the challenge and joy of teaching.
Marva Collins
#80. Life is messy; it's not linear, it's not logical, and the book reflects that.
Rose Quiello
#81. If you believe Karma, believe that you are looked at by an eternal. What is logical in saying to be punished for something same you did it to others?
Bhavik Sarkhedi
#82. He wasn't good or evil or cruel or extreme in any way but one, which was that he had elevated grayness to the status of a fine art and cultivated a mind that was as bleak and pitiless and logical as the slopes of Hell.
Terry Pratchett
#83. You could be ordinary and attempt something extraordinary, without being able to explain it in a logical way.
Rachel Joyce
#84. Basically what I'm trying to say is that when you get down to the nitty gritty of song writing, it is very logical to a certain degree. It requires a bit of intuition as to how things can fit together elegantly.
Vienna Teng
#85. The Church has realized that anything and everything can be built up on a document of that sort, no matter how contradictory or irreconcilable with it. The faithful will swallow it whole, so long as logical reasoning is never allowed to be brought to bear on it.
Adolf Hitler
#86. I don't know how to stop it, there was never any intent to write a programming language [ ... ] I have absolutely no idea how to write a programming language, I just kept adding the next logical step on the way.
Rasmus Lerdorf
#87. It is well for us that we live at the present time, when everybody is logical and consistent.
Elizabeth Gaskell
#88. Good writing takes advantage of a reader's expectations of where to go next. It accompanies the reader on a journey, or arranges the material in a logical sequence (general to specific, big to small, early to late), or tells a story with a narrative arc.
Steven Pinker
#89. It is the logical next step in our ongoing effort to shift our company's centre of gravity, accelerate our growth
Denise Morrison
#90. They do not say Roosevelt saved our system. They say he has given us a new one. That is logical.
John T. Flynn
#91. The Occultists, however, know that the traditions of Esoteric Philosophy must be the right ones, simply because they are the most logical, and reconcile every difficulty.
Helena Blavatsky
#92. For me, who only desire to become wise, not more learned or eloquent, these logical or Aristotelian dispositions of parts are of no use.
Michel De Montaigne
#93. The supreme maxim in scientific philosophising is this: wherever possible, logical constructions are to be substituted for inferred entities.
Bertrand Russell
#94. Gates is the ultimate programming machine. He believes everything can be defined, examined, reduced to essentials, and rearranged into a logical sequence that will achieve a particular goal.
Stewart Alsop
#95. The purpose of this study is to offer a logical, practical, pragmatic proof of the existence of God from a purely scientific perspective.
John Clayton
#96. There was something dead in my heart.
I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse.
I had a dead mouse in my heart.
Richard Brautigan
#97. Feelings are not always true or logical. In fact, resentment makes us act and think in foolish ways. The psalmist admitted, "When my thoughts were bitter and my feelings were hurt, I was as stupid as an animal."14 We all act beastly when hurt.
Rick Warren
#98. Often the Muse will not respond to direct and logical requests. She must be lured in with the playful and gentle.
Jill Badonsky
#99. Don't confuse a kid whining for a treat with the argument of a rigorous, logical mind, he had said, as logical as ever.
Miyuki Miyabe
#100. Science seldom proceeds in the straightforward logical manner imagined by outsiders. Instead, its steps forward (and sometimes backward) are often very human events in which personalities and cultural traditions play major roles.
James D. Watson
