A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

~ Antoine De Saint-Exupéry

Antoine De Saint-Exupéry Man Logic Distance

Chess is not only knowledge and logic.

~ Alexander Alekhine

Alexander Alekhine Chess Logic Only

I probably hold the distinction of being one movie star who, by all laws of logic, should never have made it. At each stage of my career, I lacked the experience.

~ Audrey Hepburn

Audrey Hepburn Career Logic Laws

Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman.

~ Marian Anderson

Marian Anderson Man Logic Away

The logic is often far-fetched - how does medical marijuana affect interstate commerce? - and some conservatives would like judges to start throwing out federal laws wholesale on commerce clause grounds. The court once again said no thanks.

~ Michael Kinsley

Michael Kinsley Start Logic Said

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.

~ Ludwig Wittgenstein

Ludwig Wittgenstein World Logic Prior

Nobody gets argued all the way into becoming a believer on the sheer basis of logic and reason. That requires a leap of faith.

~ Francis Collins

Francis Collins Logic Way Reason

Aesthetics - rather than reason - shapes our thought processes. First comes aesthetics, then logic. 'Thinking in Numbers' is not about an attempt to impress the reader but to include the reader, draw the reader in, by explaining my experiences - the beauty I feel in a prime number, for example.

~ Daniel Tammet

Daniel Tammet Thinking Thought Logic

Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

~ Albert Einstein

Albert Einstein Logic You Will

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

~ Ambrose Bierce

Ambrose Bierce Thinking Logic Human

Wal-Mart uses technology to increase sales volume, but the more it does so, the more it drives down profit margins - its own and everybody else's. The same logic does not appear to hold for Goldman Sachs.

~ Timothy Noah

Timothy Noah Sales Logic Down

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

~ Thomas Sowell

Thomas Sowell Life Tax Logic

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

~ Leonard Nimoy

Leonard Nimoy Beginning End Logic

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

~ George Macdonald

George Macdonald Work Body Logic

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

~ Edward Young

Edward Young Mystery Logic Something

Logic will never change emotion or perception.

~ Edward De Bono

Edward De Bono Perception Logic Emotion

One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is.

~ Frank Herbert

Frank Herbert Best Understanding Logic