Jeff Lindsay Quotes

Sometimes the person who is the most logical is the person whom we call insane.

It's logical for us to sing, but not necessarily operatic pieces.

I'm very good in math, and I'm a logical thinker. I don't get wrapped up in things or even wrapped up in myself.

Italians think with their heads.

I always approach logic without emotion. The math always equals the math. Regardless of whether I discovered the math before anyone else, or I just decided to accept it, I know what logically makes sense, and I'm going to speak on it every time.

Reason must be the universal rule and guide; all things must be done according to reason without allowing oneself to be swayed by emotion.

Because of their very nature, science and logical thinking can never decide what is possible or impossible. Their only function is to explain what has been ascertained by experience and observation.

Sometimes a person's monstrosity seems superhuman.

In some ways we live in a world where things appear to be very logical, very rational, and mechanical aspects of our world are rather scientific and rather straightforward.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

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

Only when you combine sound intellect with emotional discipline do you get rational behavior.

I teach people to be flexible, scientific and logical in their thinking and therefore to be less prone to brainwashing by the therapist.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none.

A rational man is guided by his thinking - by a process of Reason - not by his feelings and desires.

With method and logic one can accomplish anything.

When I come upon anything-in Logic or in any other hard subject-that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self! And then, you know, one is so patient with one's self: one never gets irritated at one's own stupidity!

Logic is the art of thinking well: the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way.

A priori Logical propositions are such as can be known a priori without study of the actual world.

Geometry enlightens the intellect and sets one's mind right. All of its proofs are very clear and orderly. It is hardly possible for errors to enter into geometrical reasoning, because it is well arranged and orderly. Thus, the mind that constantly applies itself to geometry is not likely to fall into error. In this convenient way, the person who knows geometry acquires intelligence.

To accept reason is impossible if you don't already possess it.

What was it with men, that they found elementary logic so difficult?

The days are gone when a country can issue orders to other peoples. Today, mankind needs culture, ideas and logic.

Never let your emotions overrule your head.