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Logic Quotes - Page 14

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

"Edward de Bono: 'Iraq? They just need to think it through'". Interview with Angela Balakrishnan, www.theguardian.com. April 23, 2007.

To be free of time is to be free of the psychological need of past for your identity and future for your fulfillment

Eckhart Tolle (2010). “The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment”, p.72, New World Library

Arithmetic is where the content lies, and not logic; but logic prompts certainty, and not arithmetic.

David Berlinski (2000). “The Advent of the Algorithm: The Idea that Rules the World”, Houghton Mifflin

Mathematics is purely hypothetical: it produces nothing but conditional propositions.

Charles Sanders Peirce (1931). “Collected Papers of Charles Sanders Peirce”

Logic chases truth up the tree of grammar.

Willard Van Orman Quine (1986). “Philosophy of Logic”, p.35, Harvard University Press

Revolution Is the affair of logical lunatics.

Wallace Stevens (2011). “The Collected Poems of Wallace Stevens”, p.324, Vintage

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

Terry Pratchett (1998). “The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel”, Harpercollins

And I, love, am a pathological liar.

Sylvia Plath (2015). “Collected Poems”, p.186, Faber & Faber

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

Robert A. Heinlein (2010). “Time for the Stars”, p.32, Macmillan

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

Robert A. Heinlein (2014). “Stranger in a Strange Land”, p.96, Hachette UK

Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience.

Rita Mae Brown (1982). “Southern discomfort”, Harpercollins