Humans are not ideally set up to understand logic; they are ideally set up to understand stories.
Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.
For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason.
Mathematicians care no more for logic than logicians for mathematics.
Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.
Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful.
A wise man sees failure as progress. A fool divorces his knowledge and misses the logic, And loses his soul in the process.
Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.
Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?
I honestly do not know if love vanquishes death as our traditional faiths teach but I do know that our vulnerabilities trump our ideologies and that love leavens the purity and logic of our beliefs propelling us to connect as the fiercely gracious human beings we are.
Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.
In my own view, some advice about what should be known, about what technical education should be acquired, about the intense motivation needed to succeed, and about the carelessness and inclination toward bias that must be avoided is far more useful than all the rules and warnings of theoretical logic.
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
The circumstances of human society are too complicated to be submitted to the rigor of mathematical calculation.
The heart has arguments with which the logic of mind is not aquainted.
Logic obviously is important. You need to be able to figure things out, to go to the end of a particular problem. But intuition is very important because it references things that logic alone cannot.
The nineteenth century was completely lacking in logic, it had cosmic terms and hopes, and aspirations, and discoveries, and ideals but it had no logic.
A scientist is only a human being, a particle in the whole universe. How can the observations and logic of a particle measure the life and size of a phenomenon that is limitless?
For nothing is more democratic than logic; it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses.
Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.