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“317 is a prime, not because we think so, or because our minds are shaped in one way rather than another, but because it is so, because mathematical reality is built that way.”

Thinking Way Mind Reality Built Logic One Way Mathematical Prime

Book:A Mathematician's Apology

Source: A Mathematician's Apology

“If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that connects them, that's credulity.”

Ifs Thinking Believe Two Science Fit Logic Thirds Witty Two Things Credulity

Book:Foucault's Pendulum

Source: Foucault's Pendulum

“Scientists are the easiest to fool. ... They think in straight, predictable, directable, and therefore misdirectable, lines. The only world they know is the one where everything has a logical explanation and things are what they appear to be. Children and conjurors-they terrify me. Scientists are no problem; against them I feel quite confident.”

Thinking Knows World Feels Children Problem Science Lines Fool Logic Scientist Explanation Logical No Problem Predictable

Author:James P. Hogan

“I am not a complete idiot, but whether from weakness or laziness have no talent for thinking. I know only how to reflect: I am a mirror. Logic does not exist for me. I float on the waves of art and life and never really know how to distinguish what belongs to the one or the other or what is common to both. Life unfolds for me like a theatre presenting a sequence of somewhat unreal sentiments; while the things of art are real to me and go straight to my heart.”

Thinking Knows Heart Doe Art Real Common Know How Talent My Heart Weakness Logic Mirrors Wave Theatre Idiot Sentiments Laziness Floats Sequence Unreal Presenting Art And Life

Author:Sviatoslav Richter

“Even Hitler didn't wake up going, 'Let me do the most evil thing I can do today.' I think he woke up in the morning and using a twisted, backwards logic, he set out to do what he thought was 'good.'”

Thinking I Can Today Evil Can Do Morning Logic Let Me Wake Up Backwards Twisted Evil Things

Author:Will Smith

“You can always veer off the path, that's one thing that has really comforted me over the past year. When you think, 'I can't do something because of this, this and this,' you can actually do anything you want. I could go ballistic right now and tear this whole room apart. I could. I'm not going to, because logic is stopping me, but you can do whatever you want. You really can veer off any path at any time - never give up.”

Thinking Want Giving Years I Can Whole Past Can Do Rooms Path One Thing Tears Right Now Giving Up Logic Stopping Never Giving Up Over The Past Do Whatever You Want

Author:Emma Stone

“Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.”

Thinking Teach Logic Presentation Logical Thinking

Author:Mason Cooley

“In other philosophies, my questions would get answered to some degree, but then I would have a follow-up question and there would be no answer. The logic would dead-end. In Scientology you can find answers for anything you could ever think to ask. These are not pushed off on you as, 'This is the answer, you have to believe in it.' In Scientology you discover for yourself what is true for you.”

Thinking Believe Ends Philosophy Would Be Asks Answers Degrees Logic Dead Ends Scientology Follow Up

Author:Jenna Elfman

“I'm reluctantly interested in love and helplessly interested in logic and yet they're so conflicting. And they're both necessary for a happy balance, a happy existence... I think.”

Thinking Existence Balance Logic

Author:Laura Marling

“Liberals state that many teenagers would rather sell crack for $100 an hour than to flip hamburgers for a minimum wage. Using the same liberal logic, you might think it would make more sense for the average middle-class worker to rob banks rather than work a forty-hour week? The reason why most people, rich and poor, do not commit crimes because they know it is wrong to do so.”

“Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done by feel. It's one area of my writing that I think I've got surer at as I've evolved. In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic.”

Thinking Feels Writing Done Memories Pay Emotion Plans Emotional Reader Areas Logic Structure Our Memories

Author:Graham Swift

“We are living in an interminable succession of absurdities imposed by the myopic logic of short-term thinking.”

Thinking Term Logic Absurdity Short Term Succession Myopic Short Term Thinking

Author:Jacques Yves Cousteau

“The short, unhappy life of a corn-fed feedlot steer represents the ultimate triumph of industrial thinking over the logic of evolution.”

Thinking Evolution Logic Ultimate Unhappy Triumph Feds Happy Life Corn Steers Unhappy Life

Book:The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

Source: The Omnivore's Dilemma: The Search for a Perfect Meal in a Fast-Food World

“You might not think that programmers are artists, but programming is an extremely creative profession. Its logic-based creativity.”

Thinking Might Artist Creativity Creative Logic Profession Programming Programmers

Author:John Romero

“I think part of the appeal of mathematical logic is that the formulas look mysterious - you write backward Es!”

Thinking Writing Looks Logic Mysterious Mathematical Appeals Formulas Mathematical Logic

Author:Hilary Putnam

“The time must come inevitably when mankind shall surmount the imbecility of religion, as it has surmounted the imbecility of religion's ally, magic. It is impossible to imagine this world being really civilized so long as so much nonsense survives. In even its highest forms religion embraces concepts that run counter to all common sense. It can be defended only by making assumptions and adopting rules of logic that are never heard of in any other field of human thinking.”

“I think Latin has some logic to it and there was a discipline.”

Thinking Discipline Logic Latin

Author:Sanford I. Weill

“His musical inspiration operates in a world uncluttered by conventional bar lines, conventional chord changes, and conventional ways of blowing or fingering a saxophone. Such practical 'limitations' did not even have to be overcome in his music; they somehow never existed for him. Despite this - or more accurately, because of this - his playing has a deep inner logic. Not an obvious surface logic, it is based on subtleties of reaction, subtleties of timing and color that are, I think, quite new to jazz - at least they have never appeared in so pure and direct a form.”

“You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.”

People Ifs Thinking Knows Firsts Mean Reason Values Loses Approach Logic Appeals Reason And Logic

Author:Jacque Fresco

“For me science fiction is a way of thinking, a way of logic that bypasses a lot of nonsense. It allows people to look directly at important subjects.”

People Thinking Way Looks Important Fiction Subjects Logic Science Fiction Nonsense Way Of Thinking Bypass

Author:Gene Roddenberry

“Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.”

“I am opposed to looking upon logic as a kind of game. ... One might think that it is a matter of choice or convention which logic one adopts. I disagree with this view.”

Thinking Kind Matter Might Science Choices Games Views Logic Disagree Conventions Adoption

Author:Karl Popper

“Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently.”

Thinking Logic Make Sense Predictable

Author:Paul Smith

“What do you think science is? There is nothing magical about science. It is simply a systematic way for carefully and thoroughly observing nature and using consistent logic to evaluate results. So which part of that exactly do you disagree with? Do you disagree with being thorough? Using careful observation? Being systematic? Or using consistent logic?”

Thinking Way Results Logic Careful Observation Consistent Disagree Observing Evaluate Systematic Thorough

Author:Steven Novella

“The American Constitution, one of the few modern political documents drawn up by men who were forced by the sternest circumstances to think out what they really had to face, instead of chopping logic in a university classroom.”

Thinking Men Government Faces Political Democracy Modern Circumstances Logic Constitution University Classroom Documents Chopping American Constitution

Book:The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

Source: The Collected Works of George Bernard Shaw: Plays, Novels, Articles, Lectures, Letters and Essays: Pygmalion, Mrs. Warren’s Profession, Candida, Arms and The Man, Man and Superman, Caesar and Cleopatra, Androcles And The Lion, The New York Times Articles on War, Memories of Oscar Wilde and more

“I approach my life with logic. I do not act on impulse or emotion. I very seldom find that I say, 'And then I can't think what came over me, but I did this or that or the other.' I nearly always know how I will act and I nearly always act in that way. I don't catch myself out in embarrassing situations because I've acted without forethought. I calculate what I will do.”

Thinking Knows Way I Can Emotion Situation Know How Approach Logic Impulse Embarrassing Forethought

Author:Quentin Crisp

“Undoubtedly the stories about them [hard-boiled detectives] had a fantastic element. Such things happened, but not so rapidly, nor to so close-knit a group of people, nor within so narrow a frame of logic. This was inevitable because the demand was for constant action; if you stopped to think you were lost. When in doubt, have a man come through a door with a gun in his hand.”

People Ifs Thinking Men Hard Stories Hands Action Lost Doubt Happened Doors Groups Demand Elements Gun Logic Constant Things Happen Fantastic Inevitable Detectives When In Doubt

Author:Raymond Chandler

“I think, therefore I laugh.”

Thinking Education Knowledge Laughing Logic Mathematics Math

Book:Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

Source: Irreligion: A Mathematician Explains Why the Arguments for God Just Don't Add Up

“Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?”

Thinking Logic Accused Gracious Rubbish Old Lady Illogical Anecdotes Niece

Author:E. M. Forster

“I think women are really vicious in the work place, they're really jealous, really competitive. Women are emotional, they cry in toilets. The sisterhood only extends as far as the kitchen door. Men talk in logic and rational terms, they don't squark and make a noise.”

Thinking Men Term Doors Cry Emotional Logic Noise Rational Kitchen Jealous Offensive Vicious Toilets Sisterhood Work Place

Author:Katie Hopkins

“Any belief in Creators or Purpose is wishful thinking. And when you point out that perhaps ALL thinking is wishful, reactions of intense irritation give evidence that we are not dealing with logic but with faith.”

Thinking Giving Purpose Belief Evidence Logic Creator Reactions Intense Wishful Thinking Irritation

Book:The Adding Machine

Source: The Adding Machine

“This is the perpetual and pitiful tragedy of the practical man in practical affairs. He always begins with a flourish of contempt for what he calls theorizing and what people who can do it call thinking. He will not wait for logic-that is, in the most exact sense, he will not listen to reason. It will therefore appear to him an idle and ineffectual proceeding to say that there is a reason for his present failure. Nevertheless, it may be well to say it, and to try and make it clear even to him.”

People Thinking Men Trying Wells May Reason Wisdom Waiting Can Do Clear Logic Tragedy Affair Practicals Contempt Perpetual Nevertheless Idle Proceeding Pitiful

Author:Gilbert K. Chesterton

“I think I think, therefore I think I am.”

Thinking Logic Math Reasoning

Author:Ambrose Bierce

“Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed.”

Thinking Mean Logic Kingdoms Unexpected Amazed

Author:Osip Mandelstam

“When I studied how to think in school, I was taught that the first rule of logic was that a thing cannot both be and not be at the same time and in the same respect. That last note, “in the same respect,” says a lot. As soon as you change the frame of reference, you’ve changed the truthiness of a once immutable fact.”

Thinking Firsts Facts School Lasts Changed Taught Logic Notes Frame Of Reference You've Changed

Author:Alan Alda

“I like horror movies, and in fact I like them even more now after making one. I just think they're much more liberating because you don't really have to apply a very strict logic.”

Thinking Facts Horror Logic Strict Liberating

Author:Gore Verbinski

“In laying hands upon the sacred ark of absolute permanency, in treating the forms that had been regarded as types of fixity and perfection as originating and passing away, the Origin of Species introduced a mode of thinking that in the end was bound to transform the logic of knowledge, and hence the treatment of morals, politics, and religion.”

Source: The Essential Dewey: Pragmatism, education, democracy

“I think that children have a power to imagine that is almost magical when compared to the adult imagination, and this is something irrevocable that a child loses when he or she becomes bound by logic. We adults continue to have our children”

Thinking Children Loses Imagination Imagine Adults Logic Our Children Bounds Imagine That Irrevocable

Author:Joseph Weizenbaum

“... landscapes or still-lifes I paint in between the abstract works; they constitute about one-tenth of my production. On the one hand they are useful, because I like to work from nature - although I do use a photograph - because I think that any detail from nature has a logic I would like to see in abstraction as well.”

Thinking Wells Art Stills Use Hands Painting Logic Paint Photograph Productions Details Landscape Abstract Abstraction

Book:Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

Source: Gerhard Richter: writings 1961-2007

“I tend to splurge on fancy dresses because I always think I'll get a lot of wear out of them, but it's false logic. You should really spend more money on the things you wear every day, like jeans.”

Thinking Should Logic Dresses Fancy More Money Jeans

Author:Alexa Chung

“My mother's incredibly giving, almost too giving at times. And, my dad is a real logical person. He's got logic for every situation. They've been married for 24 years, so there was that stability, also. I really learned to think on my own at a very young age.”

Thinking Giving Years Persons Real Age Young Mother My Own Situation Dad Married Logic My Dad Logical Stability Young Age

Author:Brian Austin Green

“But I always need to identify with a character to write about him or her - and by "identify," I mean see the world through that person's eyes and have a strong sense of the inner logic of their acts and decisions, wacky or wrongheaded though they might be. In that sense, I think there's some of me in all of them.”

Thinking World Needs Writing Mean Persons Character Might Eye Strong Decision Logic Wacky

Author:Jennifer Egan

“How can I know what I think till I see what I say?”

Thinking Knows Writing Literature Logic

Author:E. M. Forster

“I think Veblen had an interest in logic.”

Thinking Interest Logic

Author:Stephen Cole Kleene

“So, there’s this hornet’s nest. And there’s this long stick. And then there’s me. How I walk away from all of this will depend on whether I realize that some things go together and some things don’t no matter how hard you try.”

“Never confuse emotivism for critical thinking skills.”

Thinking Emotion Emotions Logic Thought Logical Thinking Emotivism Thinking Skills

Book:Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville

Source: Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville

“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality”

Thinking Life Mind Reason Philosophy Wisdom Reality Truth Values Virtue Morality Logic Rational Man Contradiction Morals Think Pursuit Of Happiness Objectivism Atlas Shrugged John Galt

Book:Atlas Shrugged

Source: Atlas Shrugged

“Now we’ve a real intellectual impasse. Our reason, which is supposed to make things more intelligible, seems to be making them less intelligible, and when reason thus defeats its own purpose something has to be changed in the structure of our reason itself.”

Thinking Reason Philosophy Logic Intelligence Analysis Reasoning Rationale

Book:Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

Source: Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values

“I treat my thoughts like an old person treats their valuables: I cannot for the life of me proceed to throwing them out.”

Source: Healology

“Humankind’s struggle against a hostile environment causes people throughout the ages to deploy their full armory of logic, training, strategy, imagination, inventiveness, and creativity. We are born with the natural ability to strategize. The most influential tool in humankind’s intellectual tool kit is the ability to regenerate a sense of unruffled alertness, to establish a poised stance that leads to intuitive discoveries generated by the conscious and unconscious mind constantly filtering a plethora of data, selecting critical facts, and producing elegant solutions to seemingly insoluble dilemmas.”

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Book:Dead Toad Scrolls

Source: Dead Toad Scrolls