Logical Quotes

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.
Albert Einstein

Poetry, Ideas, Pure

There is no logical way to the discovery of these elemental laws. There is only the way of intuition, which is helped by a feeling for the order lying behind the appearance.
Albert Einstein

Feeling, Intuition, Order

The grand aim of all science is to cover the greatest number of empirical facts by logical deduction from the smallest number of hypotheses or axioms.
Albert Einstein

Science, Greatest, Facts

Before success comes in any man's life, he's sure to meet with much temporary defeat and, perhaps some failures. When defeat overtakes a man, the easiest and the most logical thing to do is to quit. That's exactly what the majority of men do.
Napoleon Hill

Life, Success, Men

If we cut up beasts simply because they cannot prevent us and because we are backing our own side in the struggle for existence, it is only logical to cut up imbeciles, criminals, enemies, or capitalists for the same reasons.
C. S. Lewis

Struggle, Same, Cannot

People don't buy for logical reasons. They buy for emotional reasons.
Zig Ziglar

Emotional, Reasons, Buy

I've realized that being happy is a choice. You never want to rub anybody the wrong way or not be fun to be around, but you have to be happy. When I get logical and I don't trust my instincts - Thats when I get in trouble.
Angelina Jolie

Trust, Happy, Fun

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.
George Bernard Shaw

Read, Books, Nobody

When I get logical, and I don't trust my instincts - that's when I get in trouble.
Angelina Jolie

Trust, Trouble, Instincts

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake.
Erich Fromm

Dreams, Sleep, Nothing

The web, then, or the pattern, a web at once sensuous and logical, an elegant and pregnant texture: that is style, that is the foundation of the art of literature.
Robert Louis Stevenson

Art, Once, Style

Freedom in art, freedom in society, this is the double goal towards which all consistent and logical minds must strive.
Victor Hugo

Art, Freedom, Society

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

Emotional, Himself, Belief

If women are supposed to be less rational and more emotional at the beginning of our menstrual cycle when the female hormone is at its lowest level, then why isn't it logical to say that, in those few days, women behave the most like the way men behave all month long?
Gloria Steinem

Women, Men, Emotional

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

Problem, Else, Sense

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
Niels Bohr

God is not a hypothesis derived from logical assumptions, but an immediate insight, self-evident as light. He is not something to be sought in the darkness with the light of reason. He is the light.
Abraham Joshua Heschel

God, Light, Reason

To me, acting is the most logical way for people's neuroses to manifest themselves, in this great need we all have to express ourselves.
James Dean

Great, Acting, Themselves

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
Thomas Huxley

Men, Wise, Fools

Life isn't like a book. Life isn't logical or sensible or orderly. Life is a mess most of the time. And theology must be lived in the midst of that mess.
Charles Caleb Colton

Life, Time, Book

What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.
Lyndon B. Johnson

Good, Person, Win

Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
John Dewey

History, Old, Surrender

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.
Jacques Yves Cousteau

Faith, Work, Hope

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.
E. O. Wilson

Faith, Level, Qualities

I thought if I had a Twitter feed and say I had a following of a 100,000, that means 100,000 of them would be interested in my book. It was logical, but it didn't turn out to be true. It turned out if I had a Twitter feed of a 100,000, four of them were interested in my book.
Steve Martin

True, Book, Thought

It is with children that we have the best chance of studying the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so forth.
Jean Piaget

Best, Knowledge, Children

I never guess. It is a shocking habit destructive to the logical faculty.
Arthur Conan Doyle

Guess, Habit, Shocking

Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.
Scott Adams

Kindness, End, Remember

Having hit a wall, the next logical step is not to bang our heads against it.
Stephen Harper

Against, Next, Step

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.
Billy Corgan

Strength, Thought, Calm

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