Top 1200 Logical Thinking Quotes & Sayings - Page 5

Even in the most purely logical realms, it is insight that first arrives at what is new.

I know three things will never be believed - the true, the probable, and the logical

Minds are of three kinds: one is capable of thinking for itself; another is able to understand the thinking of others; and a third can neither think for itself nor understand the thinking of others. The first is of the highest excellence, the second is excellent, and the third is worthless.

Not everything people did could be in a correct, logical order, especially when they were alone.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

I love humor in writing, so I've written to the thing that's funny, there's the joke, but then I just kept going. I started thinking about all the bikes I've had stolen, and that got me thinking about crime, and that got me thinking about the city I'm in.

Most of my contemporaries at school entered the World of Business, the logical destiny of bores.

Sometimes people need to experience acute suffering before the thinking and the awareness of the consciousness separate. People then realize there is another dimension in them that is not thinking but the ability to be aware of thinking. It is not emotion but the ability to be aware of emotion.

"Thinking about thinking" has to be a principle ingredient of any empowering practice of education.

Merciless criticism and independent thinking are the two necessary traits of revolutionary thinking.

In dealing with Englishmen you can be sure of one thing only, that the logical solution will not be adopted.

I'm a writer, not an editor, and though the editing rarely cut into my writing time, it did take away from that walking-around-thinking-about-it-when-you're-not-thinking-about-it time that I think is important for writers. When you're half-thinking about what you're working on while driving, cooking . . . just letting things sift and settle, come to you.

Metaphors get under your skin by ghosting right past the logical mind.

It is always the individual who thinks. Society does not think any more than it eats or drinks. The evolution of human reasoning from the naive thinking of primitive man to the more subtle thinking of modern science took place within society. However, thinking itself is always an achievement of individuals.

Something is wrong with America. I wonder sometimes what people are thinking about or if they're thinking at all.

Nothing is more logical than persecution. Religious tolerance is a kind of infidelity.

The mind is a product of experience. It is the result of past thinking and is modified by present thinking.

You may go days without thinking of God, but there's never a moment when He's not thinking of you.

After MIP, it was like, 'OK, there is way more.' We thinking MVP, we thinking All-Star.

For me, the peculiar qualities of faith are a logical outcome of this level of biological organization.

...somebody has to take governments' place, and business seems to me to be a logical entity to do it.

Confidence is a reduction of your own interest in whether others are thinking about you and if so, what they're thinking.

Social thinking requires very exacting thresholds to be powerful. For example, we've had social thinking for 200,000 years, and hardly anything happened that could be considered progress over most of that time. This is because what is most pervasive about social thinking is 'how to get along and mutually cope.'

To be honest, I'm not even thinking about America. If I was to start thinking about the enormity of 'Downton' and the size of the project, then I wouldn't be able to be very truthful to the work. I would start to watch myself too much. I'm not even thinking about it. Who knows what will happen.

It looks as if I was thinking what you were thinking." "Actually, you weren't. I was really thinking I needed to ask you a question." "What was that?" "Do you think we should ask Goatee Guy how to find the caterer?" I smiled at him innocently as his eyebrows pratically met above his nose. "I am never going to share my pet peeves with you again."

High IQ individuals don't like surprises and are pessimistic, because it's logical.

I don't do something necessarily to make a big profit or because it's a logical business decision.

The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.

Reason is the power or capacity whereby we see or detect logical relationships among propositions.

Your current thinking got you here. Only new thinking will get you out.

Then if the actor comes up with, "It's more logical to do this," I just change it [a scene] on the spot.

You can prove anything you want by coldly logical reason---if you pick the proper postulates.

We must stop thinking of the individual and start thinking about what is best for society.

There is a close logical connection between the concept of a safety margin and the principle of diversification.

You are attempting to be logical, I suspect, and logic has little to do with government, and nothing at all to do with military administration.

I don't delude myself into thinking I'll bring anyone around to my way of thinking, especially Sean Hannity.

When companies minimize their costs, they can spend more on R & D and marketing. It's just very logical.

Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.

Thinking? You're not thinking. You're reasoning without reasons, and that's just another word for prejudice.

However logical our induction, the end of the thread is fastened upon the assurance of faith.

When I see that man on the telly - 'Are you thinking what I'm thinking?' No! I'm definitely not! I find most of it quite offensive!

Women need to shift form thinking "I'm not ready to do that" to thinking "I want to do that- and I'll learn by doing it.

Thinking that morality is all about commandments is a relatively new way of thinking, since the Reformation.

Wishful thinking did not give Oregonians the bottle bill. Wishful thinking did not give the public access to beaches. Nor can we expect wishful thinking to turn around a decades-long disinvestment in our higher education system.

You can't think seriously about thinking without thinking about thinking about something.

People don't just get upset. They contribute to their upsetness. They always have the power to think, and to think about their thinking, and to think about thinking about their thinking, which the goddamn dolphin, as far as we know, can't do. Therefore they have much greater ability to change themselves than any other animal has.

This procedure [selecting the simplest law], however, has no logical justification but only a psychological one.

I'm contemplating thinking about thinking...but....it's overrated - just get another drink in!

People say, what is she thinking? I'm thinking: fun; cash; travel.

Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.

Thinking is trying to think the unthinkable: thinking the thinkable is not worth the effort.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

A logical extension of our work on glycogen was to investigate the formation of starch in plants.

The purpose of concept art as a genre is to unbrainwash our mathematical and logical faculties.

Piece of Heaven?" "No, that other place I'm going to go to for thinking what I'm thinking.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

It is dangerous to attach probability zero to anything other than a logical impossibility.

Originally consists in thinking for yourself, and not in thinking unlike other people.

Calm, open debate, and logical thought drive strength to its maximum effectiveness.

Thinking is the problem. Thinking is hazardous to your progress in life. Don't think - feel.