"The greatest danger in times of turbulence is not the turbulence; it is to act with yesterday's logic."
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"The life of the law has not been logic; it has been experience."
"Logic can take you from point A to point B. Imagination can take you wherever you want"
"Logic and mathematics are nothing but specialised linguistic structures."
"Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently."
"There are crimes of passion and crimes of logic. The boundary between them is not clearly defined."
"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."
"Logic won't change an emotion but action will."
"Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can."
"My day passes between logic, whistling, going for walks, and being depressed. I wish to God that I were more intelligent and everything would finally become clear to me - or else that I needn't live much longer."
"The solution of every problem is another problem"
"How quick come the reasons for approving what we like!"
"Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic."
"But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of."
"Nothing can be accomplished by logic and ethics."
"Politics are not a science based on logic; they are the capacity of always choosing at each instant, in constantly changing situations, the least harmful, the most useful."
"Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic."
"It is so easy to convince others; it is so difficult to convince oneself."
"All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others."
"When intuition and logic agree, you are always right."
"The supreme function of reason is to show man that some things are beyond reason."