Logic Quotes - Page 13

Smile. It creates positive physiological change.

If I thought that everything I did was determined by my circumstancse and my psychological condition, I woudl feel trapped.

She tried to get even with him through psychological warfare but couldn't, because he didn't care.

Success is a relative term. It brings so many relatives.

Newton, for instance, attempted to comprehend the diversities of the universe with a single system of mathematical laws, the objectivity, sobriety and logic of Palladian architecture presented an aesthetic formula which, while accepting variations and adjustments according to climate and other needs, could be applied universally.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

Scott Peterson was a pathological liar to me - nothing he said was the truth.

Marriage is a psychological condition, not a civil contract and a license. Once a marriage is dead, it is dead, and it begins to stink faster than a dead fish.

No daring is fatal. The whole logic of the universe is contained in daring, in creating from the flimsiest, slenderest support.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Don't disturb complicated systems that have been around for a very long time. We don't understand their logic. Don't pollute the planet. Leave it the way we found it, regardless of scientific 'evidence'.

I loved logic, math, computer programming. I loved systems and logic approaches. And so I just figured architecture is this perfect combination.

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition. How, otherwise, to account for much of one's life?

All thinking is done with the glands. Logic is added later to tidy things up.

Coincidence is logical.

Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a chicken biryani without so much as inquiring whether they like cilantro.

Our universe is ruled by random whim, inhabited by people who laugh at logic.

you can’t use logic on human behavior.

Most likely, logic is capable of justifying mathematics to no greater extent than biology is capable of justifying life.

Somehow, in painting I try to make some logic out of the world that has been given to me in chaos.

The reformers' preferred metaphor is "leveling the playing field." They should listen to the logic of their language: fields are leveled by bulldozers.

No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.