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If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't. -- Sidney Poitier
Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity. -- Moss Hart
You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them. -- Jacque Fresco
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity. -- Mahatma Gandhi
There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. -- Edward Abbey
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, and symbol rather than a reason by which men are moved. -- Irwin Edman
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
Just pick a political story at random and read the comments. There is no logic or reason on either side - only hypocrisy and hate. -- Michael Arrington
We must go beyond the constant clamor of ego, beyond the tools of logic and reason, to the still, calm place within us: the realm of the soul. -- Deepak Chopra
Man associates ideas not according to logic or verifiable exactitude, but according to his pleasure and interests. It is for this reason that most truths are nothing but prejudices. -- Remy de Gourmont
Mathematics as an expression of the human mind reflects the active will, the contemplative reason, and the desire for aesthetic perfection. Its basic elements are logic and intuition, analysis and construction, generality and individuality. -- Richard Courant
Most governments are pragmatic, most people are logical. There are pockets of extremism in Israel, in the U.S. and in the Muslim world. But we have to fight them with reason, with logic and with compassion. -- Al-Waleed bin Talal
This battle for 'common-sense' gun control laws pits emotion and passion against logic and reason. All too often in such a contest, logic loses. So, expect more meaningless, if not harmful, 'gun control' legislation. Good news - if you're a crook. -- Larry Elder
You can win more arguments then you might think as a writer, even though you legally have no recourse, and your script can get muddied and altered in any way possible. You can use reason, logic, and passion to argue persuasively for a case in your favor. -- Shane Black
Soul-directed events defy logic and ridicule reason. -- Sarah Ban Breathnach
Surrender to a logic more powerful than reason. -- J. G. Ballard
By logic and reason we die hourly; by imagination we live. -- William Butler Yeats
Reason and logic, fused with intuition and empathy, equals awakened consciousness and spirituality. -- Dara Reidyr
Grammar is the logic of speech, even as logic is the grammar of reason. -- Richard Chenevix Trench
Then you will have to trust me. Beyond logic, beyond reason, beyond hope, trust me. -- Patricia A. McKillip
... on every important issue life transcends logic and it is folly to depend on reason alone. -- Robert Gordis
You reason colour more than you reason drawing Colour has a logic as severe as form. -- Pierre Bonnard
The elixir of life, the philosopher's stone is yours if you surrender sterile logic, trivial reason. -- Hilda Doolittle
There's nothing more annoying than cold logic and reason when you've got a good fit going. -- James Patterson
The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all. -- Julian Jaynes
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. -- Claude Levi-Strauss
Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic. -- Tryon Edwards
The big lie and monotonously repeated nonsense have more emotional appeal in a cold war than logic and reason. -- Joost Meerloo
Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them. -- Jawaharlal Nehru
For once, you're going to hear something that doesn't fit into your neat, compartmentalized world of order and logic and reason. -- Richelle Mead
What the teacher does is sweep all of the logic, order and reason onto one side and make that side very strong. -- Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell
Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency. -- Jane Haddam
It must be, for there is a logic to everything on this earth and nothing is done without a reason, that God sometimes lets scientists discover. -- Jules Verne
there are the two sides to a Frenchman, logic and fashion and that is the reason why French people are exciting and peaceful. Logic and fashion. -- Gertrude Stein
fantasizing is one of the earliest languages in the child's mind. We are in touch with our imagination and dreams before we engage with logic and reason. -- Caroline Myss
Your body will argue that there is no justifiable reason to continue. Your only recourse is to call on your spirit, which fortunately functions independently of logic. -- Tim Noakes
In times of death and famine, reason is on the side of the priests-who have their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion, invents them. -- Jean Giraudoux

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