Quotes About Logical Ideas

#1. Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Albert Einstein

#2. Religion: A lot of fanciful ideas inspired by wishful thinking. Science: A lot of logical ideas based on the best evidence available. Which should we have faith in?

David Alan Harvey

#3. When you travel around the country, you see what a tough town New York is: rude, competitive, a town where good, logical ideas are ignored in favor of unworkable ones. And yet, all these other towns are so dead and boring compared to New York.

Woody Allen

#4. Even in ordinary conversation, the ideas connected with the word Logic include at least precision of language, and accuracy of classification: and we perhaps oftener hear persons speak of a logical arrangement, or of expressions logically defined, than of conclusions logically deduced from premises.

John Stuart Mill

#5. In battle, do not think that you have to win. Think rather that you do not have to lose.

Gichin Funakoshi

#6. I can deal with adversity.

Mike Tyson

#7. We often hear what seem to be great ideas capable of transforming the world. But they are mere words devoid of emotion, empty of Love, which is why they do not touch us, however logical and intelligent they may seem.

Paulo Coelho

#8. When you're stressed out or nervous, the logical side of your brain goes out the window and you have no idea what's happening. But, that is a lot of fun. It feels like you are an action hero.

Katia Winter

#9. A lot of my own relatives didn't get to go to school because we were mountain people. You have to get out and work and help feed the family. My own dad couldn't read and write. And my dad was very proud of me.

Dolly Parton

#10. 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

#11. I believe that animals have been talking to human beings ever since we were all made and put into this world ...

Barbara Woodhouse

#12. 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

#13. New technologies can be used for destructive purposes. The answer is to develop rapid-response systems for new dangers like a bioterrorist creating a new biological virus.

Ray Kurzweil

#14. The idea comes before the logical argument.

Gerald Abrahams

#15. After 60, it's just patch, patch, patch.

Mary Martin

#16. I always say the first sign of a good idea is a lot of people not believing in it. I can tell you this right now, if you have an idea that makes complete logical sense and people don't believe in it, then you probably have a brilliant idea.

Steve Stoute

#17. Every culture loves scatological humour. That's always a favourite.

Alex D. Linz

#18. It takes a very great intelligence to breathe logical meaning into meaningless ideas.

Milan Kundera

#19. An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.

Nassim Nicholas Taleb

#20. With the exception of buying a big rig and becoming cross-country truck drivers, most of Jerry and Ben's ideas for a business involved food. They both liked to eat, so it seemed like a logical career move.

Fred Lager

#21. We are afraid of ideas, of experimenting, of change. We shrink from thinking a problem through to a logical conclusion.

Anne Sullivan

#22. Every valuable creative idea must always be logical in hindsight. If it were not, we would never be able to see its value.

Edward De Bono

#23. 'Retiring' - within that word is 'tiring,' and I'm not tired. I don't believe in retirement, really.

Theodore Bikel

#24. He rolled his eyes. "Fiction lies for the truth.

Kristine Grayson

#25. Knowledge and ideas tend to be a bit like experience - nice, but not necessarily useful. Clear thinking, logical priorities and the ability to reason will beat bright ideas and unassisted experience everytime.

Carroll Smith

#26. Circumstances should never alter principles!

Oscar Wilde

#27. I think Oprah who is the height of aspiration and inspiration recognizes something in me that is germane.

Rosie O'Donnell

#28. Old ideas give way slowly; for they are more than abstract logical forms and categories. They are habits, predispositions, deeply ingrained attitudes of aversion and preference.

John Dewey