Logic Quotes - Page 3

We live in an extraordinary time. We are caught up in a pace of social and technological change that makes our work, our business and education, sources of anxiety and unfulfillment. Thinking about our thinking and observing our observations can bring us a new world in which work becomes a place for innovation, and in which peace, wisdom, friendship, companionship and community can exist. Let us design this world together.

But planned obsolescence is possible only if the rate of technological change is contained.

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

Alcohol doesn't console, it doesn't fill up anyone's psychological gaps, all it replaces is the lack of God.

Social psychology has, as a rule, dealt with various phases of social experience from the psychological standpoint of individual experience.

Eloquence is logic on fire.

There are three kinds of people: those who can count, and those who cannot.

All theological lore is becoming distasteful to me.

The psychological tools I've gained from bodybuilding will never atrophy.

I love you, and beneath all that logic, calculation, and superstition, I know you love me too.

While the rich reap most of the benefits of technological development, the poor bear an unequal burden of dealing with the consequences of the resulting increased pollution. The poor continue to live in greatest proximity to the sources of pollution, the infrastructure and machinery of industry. They work in the most polluted and physically dangerous workplaces. And these same individuals, living and working closest to the sources of environmental catastrophe, are also the ones most lacking decent health care.

You can't do psychological thrillers. There's no audience. I've heard this. I've heard this from studios.

But the science of operations, as derived from mathematics more especially, is a science of itself, and has its own abstract truth and value; just as logic has its own peculiar truth and value, independently of the subjects to which we may apply its reasonings and processes.

Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated heated and curved to fit inside the contours of the heart.

Within a few decades, machine intelligence will surpass human intelligence, leading to The Singularity -- technological change so rapid and profound it represents a rupture in the fabric of human history. The implications include the merger of biological and nonbiological intelligence, immortal software-based humans, and ultra-high levels of intelligence that expand outward in the universe at the speed of light.

At present, too much theological thinking is very human-centered.

Feeling insignificant because the universe is large has exactly the same logic as feeling inadequate for not being a cow.

Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.

I am drawn to the wild not because it is wild but because it is sensible, logical, ordered, stable, resilient. Wild nature is everything we're struggling to regain.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

What I've attempted to do is establish a world through art in which the validity of my Negro experience could live and make its own logic.

Logic won't change an emotion but action will.

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.

Even logical positivists are capable of love.

Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!