L Quotes
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“Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them.”
Source: Selected Works of Jawaharlal Nehru: Advisory Board: M. Chalapathi Rau, H. Y. Sharada Prasad, and B. R. Nanda; General Editor: S. Gopal
“Logic and ethics are fundamentally the same, they are no more than duty to oneself”
Source: Sex & Character
“Logic and fact keep interfering with the easy flow of conversation.”
“Logic and faith don't occupy the same side.”
“Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures.”
“Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and do the least work.”
Source: Remarks on the Talents of Lord Byron and the Tendencies of Don Juan
“Logic and over-analysis can immobilise and sterilize an idea. It's like love. The more you analyse it, the more it disappears.”
“Logic and reason are the naphthalene balls we use to pack them away into a sandook called 'Someday'. But when that day comes we are too old, too poor, too tired or too lazy.”
Source: Stay Hungry Stay Foolish
“Logic and reason were a powerful weapon, but that weapon's edge was dulled when it continually encountered thick ignorance.”
“Logic and reasoning help us solve problems, but too much blue during performance means we overthink and lack the drive to act decisively. What’s important is being able to recognize and understand which state we are in and adjust our mental thermostat so that our red/blue balance is just right.”
Source: Strong Minds: How to Unlock the Power of Elite Sports Psychology to Accomplish Anything
“Logic and sermons never convince, The damp of the night drives deeper into my soul.”
Source: The Americanness of Walt Whitman
“Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.”
“Logic becomes a loud voice when the wall of our past abuse begin to crack with awareness. But that's our adult speaking. The child within, who had the experience, talks to us through flashes of insights.
Trust your perceptions. They are a powerful guide in healing.”
Source: Childhood Abuse: Tips to Change Child Abuse Effects
“Logic becomes illogical at the point that it assumes that everything can be explained logically.”
“Logic can be patient, for it is eternal.”
“Logic can convince but only emotion can motivate.”
Source: The Promise: President Obama, Year One
“Logic can often be reversed, but the effect does not precede the cause.”
“Logic can provide you with various facts and figures but can't comprehend them in their totality.”
“Logic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want”
“Logic cannot comprehend love; so much the worse for logic.”
“Logic cannot deny absolute truth without denying itself”
Source: Nihilism: The Root of the Revolution of the Modern Age
“Logic cannot model causal systems, and paradox is generated when time is ignored [as in logic].”
“Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.”
Source: Philosophy of Logic
“Logic dictates that if you believe in one, you have to reconcile the existence of the other.”
“Logic doesn't always hold up against the complexity of real life. Our equations fail us. Our formulas break down and reasons escape us. We carry blessing, and we carry curse. Life is paradox. It cannot always be categorized. Seemingly competing truths coexist. Humans are not creatures of either/or. We are creatures of both/and. And so is God.”
Source: Holy Unhappiness: God, Goodness, and the Myth of the Blessed Life
“Logic doesn't become science until you breathe empathy into it.”
Source: Nazmahal: Palace of Grace
“Logic doesn't make you a good person, love does. Belief doesn't make you a good person, behavior does.”
Source: Aşk Mafia: Armor of The World
“Logic doesn't need glue.”
“Logic doesn't apply to the real world.”
“Logic doesn't apply to the real world. D. R. Hofstadter and D. C. Dennett (eds.) The Mind's I, 1981.”
“Logic doesn't really provide for loyalty. If your logic changes suddenly and things not make sense, you can alter your allegiance, but love stops you from being able to do that.”
“Logic doesn't stop you feeling. You can behave logically and it can hurt like hell. Or it can comfort you. Or release you. Or all at the same time”
Source: The Danger
“Logic had very little power over emotions.”
Source: Sleeping Beauties
“Logic has been place upon us to keep our minds controlled by rules and limitations.”
Source: Religion and the Plan it was Created For.
“Logic has its use and metaphysics has its use, but neither of them is of much help in the making of a creed.”
“Logic has made me hated in the world.”
Source: The Story of His Misfortunes and The Personal Letters
“Logic has nothing to do with oppression.”
Source: Passion, Politics, and Everyday Activism: Collected Essays: Moving Beyond Words; Outrageous Acts and Everyday Rebellions; and Revolution from Within
“Logic has rid us of the absurdity of our clothes. That’s progress, no irony, only now we are cold. Hale and ill trade bodies with unusual willingness, while in midair souls tangle. The young start out disgusted and Poetry is left to the memo-writers.”
Source: Open Papers - Selected Essays
“Logic has virtually nothing to do with the way we think.”
“Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.”
Source: Logic: Or, The Right Use of Reason, in the Inquiry After Truth
“Logic, if used as the main instrument for thinking, frustrates the functions of the mind—it doesn‘t improve them.
Great ideas are the result of undirected curiosity, creativity, serendipity and higher pleasures.”
“Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.”
Source: Les Misérables
“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.”
“Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.”
“Logic is a cruel tool to use for the mending of hearts.”
Source: The Summer of the Ubume
“Logic is a feeble reed, friend.”
Source: Glory Road
“Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.”
Source: Glory Road
“Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.”
Source: Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think
“Logic is a mere iceberg in the Mediterranean of wisdom.”
“Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.”
Source: Closing the Ring