A Quote by Robert A. Heinlein

Logic is a feeble reed, friend.

Robert A. Heinlein

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Feeble Friend Logic Reed

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Robert A. Heinlein
American - Writer
July 7, 1907 - May 8, 1988

Logic is a feeble reed, friend. "Logic" proved that airplanes can't fly and that H-bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything which didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow.

Robert A. Heinlein

Man is but a reed, the most feeble thing in nature, but he is a thinking reed.

Blaise Pascal

A man of feeble character resembles a reed that bends with every gust of wind.

Magha

At best, in such depression times, monetary policy is a feeble reed on which to lean.

John Kenneth Galbraith

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

Alice James

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Andre Gide

Ten years from now I think people are going to look back and say Willis Reed pulled a Curt Schilling...Willis Reed scored four points. Curt Schilling went seven innings against one of the best offenses of recent memory. No offense to Willis Reed.

Theo Epstein

My hairdresser in the U.K., Adam Reed, has his own line, Percy and Reed, and it's really good. And I use Moroccan Oil and Kerastase as well.

Ellie Goulding

Ed Reed is a legend. Ed Reed will always be the standard that, as players, we look up to and strive to be like.

Eric Weddle

Sweet Jane' is my favorite song by Lou Reed the writer, at least the Velvet Underground Lou Reed.

Scarface

Earthly riches are like the reed. Its roots are sunk in the swamp, and its exterior is fair to behold; but inside it is hollow. If a man leans on such a reed, it will snap off and pierce his soul.

Anthony of Padua

An injudicious and malignant enemy often serves the cause he means to injure; but a feeble friend never attains that end.

Dorothy Wordsworth

A feeble executive implies a feeble execution of the government. A feeble execution is but another phrase for a bad execution; and a government ill executed, whatever may be its theory, must be, in practice, a bad government.