87 Illogic Quotes

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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. — Ambrose Bierce

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically — Steven Weinberg

Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician. — Pierre Bourdieu

Logic must no more admit a unicorn than zoology can. — Bertrand Russell

Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently. - Paul Smith

Stop making sense. Logic is predictable. Think differently. — Paul Smith

Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all — Nikolai Gogol

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it. — Friedrich Nietzsche

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it. — Bernard Devoto

Hell is the impossibility of reason. — Oliver Stone

One can't logically argue that because something highly improbable happens, some occult force had to make it happen that way. — Sayings

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems. — Rudolf Carnap

Nothing makes sense, why should I? — Suad Amiry

Nothing in all the world is so nonsensical and contradictory, save mortals, that is, who live in the grip of the superstitions of the past. — Anne Rice

Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. — Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.

Reason cannot establish values, and its belief that it can is the stupidest and most pernicious illusion. — Allan Bloom

Short Illogic Quotes

  • Even when winnin's illogical, losin's still far from optional — T.I.
  • The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few. — Leonard Nimoy
  • People are unrealistic, illogical, and self-centered. Love them anyway. — Mother Teresa
  • What’s really important is storytelling. None of it matters if it doesn’t support the story. — Wally Pfister
  • We are overcome by anguish at this illogical moment of humanity. — Che Guevara
  • What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight; build it anyway. — Mother Teresa
  • Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable. — H. L. Mencken
  • If you do good, people will accuse you of selfish ulterior motives. Do good anyway. — Mother Teresa
  • Computers make excellent and efficient servants, but I have no wish to serve under them. — Leonard Nimoy
  • Love is illogical, love had consequences--I did this to myself, and I should be able to take it. — Marie Lu

Illogical Thinking Quotes

I think all mothers are alike, regardless of cultural background, when it comes to illogical cleaning. — Neal Shusterman

Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities to worry about illogical things. — Benedict Cumberbatch

the system which admits the unworthy to the vote provided they are men, and shuts out the worthy provided they are women, is so unjust and illogical that its perpetuation is a sad reflection upon American thinking. — Carrie Chapman Catt

I think that systems that are based on employment are illogical and attempts to meet them create all sorts of unnecessary complexities. — Kenneth Arrow

Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? — E. M. Forster

If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you’ll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you. — Jonathan Haidt

Muddled syntax is the outward and audible sign of confused minds, and the misuse of grammar the result of illogical thinking. — Quentin Crisp

Illogical Quotes

Religions are illogical primitive ignorance. There is nothing as ridiculous and tragic as a religious government. — Leon Trotsky

All you can do is handle it, worst thing you can do is panic. Use it to your advantage, avoid insanity, manage to conquer ever obstacle, make impossible possible. Even when winning's illogical, losing is still far from optional. — T.I.

When you grow up as a girl, the world tells you the things that you are supposed to be: emotional, loving, beautiful, wanted. And then when you are those things, the world tells you they are inferior: illogical, weak, vain, empty. — Stevie Nicks

Stripping away the irrational, the illogical, and the impossible, I am left with atheism. I can live with that. — Mark Twain

Surrealism! What is Surrealism? In my opinion, it is above all a reawakening of the poetic idea in art, the reintroduction of the subject but in a very particular sense, that of the strange and illogical. — Paul Delvaux

Life forms illogical patterns. It is haphazard and full of beauties which I try to catch as they fly by, for who knows whether any of them will ever return? — Margot Fonteyn

One way we can enliven the imagination is to push it toward the illogical. We're not scientists. We don't always have to make the logical, reasonable leap. — Stella Adler

Although knowledge of structure is helpful, real creativity comes from leaps of faith in which you jump to something illogical. But those leaps form the memorable moments in movies and plays. — Francis Ford Coppola

It seemed so illogical to punish some poor criminal for doing something that civilization taught him how to do so he could have something that civilization taught him how to want. It seemed to him as wrong as if they had hung the gun that shot the man. — Chester Himes

There can be no doubt that the average man blames much more than he praises. His instinct is to blame. If he is satisfied he says nothing; if he is not, he most illogically kicks up a row. — Arnold Bennett

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More Illogic Quotes

People go to Africa and confirm what they already have in their heads and so they fail to see what is there in front of them. This is what people have come to expect. Its not viewed as a serious continent. Its a place of strange, bizarre and illogical things, where people dont do what common sense demands. — Chinua Achebe

Their coverage on the Fox News Channel has been atrocious. The stuff that comes out of Sean Hannity's mouth has been infuriating. The stuff that Bill O'Reilly says has been illogical. You go up and down the schedule and it's insanity over there. The number of lies, perpetuated, promoted by Fox News is just shameful and it hurts everybody. — David Shuster

People are unreasonable, illogical and self-centered. Love them anyway.... Honesty and frankness make you vulnerable. Be honest and frank anyway.... What you spend years building may be destroyed overnight. Build anyway. .. Give the world the best you have and you'll get kicked in the teeth. Give the world the best you've got anyway. — Mother Teresa

I never argue with the tape. To be angry at the market because it unexpectedly or even illogically goes against you is like getting mad at your lungs because you have pneumonia. — Jesse Lauriston Livermore

Giving up the center must not here be regarded as illogical. Was happiness no happiness because it endured for just a short time? One cannot always be happy. — Aron Nimzowitsch

Procrastination is illogical from every viewpoint. It is like the man who wanted to cross the stream, so he sat on the bank to wait for all the water to run by. — Vernon Howard

To call everything that appears illogical, fantasy, fairy tale, or chimera would be practically to admit not understanding nature. — Marc Chagall

The strictly logical mind is usually if not always at fault in its valuations of that defiantly illogical thing known as human nature. — Oscar W. Firkins

Faith may be defined briefly as an illogical belief in the occurrence of the improbable.... A man full of faith is simply one who has lost (or never had) the capacity for clear and realistic thought. He is not a mere ass: he is actually ill. — H. L. Mencken

Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. — Sargent Shriver

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption. — Marilyn vos Savant

May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant. — Leonard Nimoy

Public opinion actually applauds the young woman venturing into the business world, but it still obstinately (and quite illogically) protects the young man in his sacred right to know nothing of housework. — Crystal Eastman

I've never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question. — Leonard Nimoy

Nothing is more depressing and more illogical than aggressive Christianity. — Gerald Vann

People had an illogical, self-serving rationale when it came to interpreting the behavior of others. — Marisha Pessl

Logic plus logic equals the illogical. Do you know what I mean? — Jason Schwartzman

war to win peace is at best a dangerously illogical method. — Vida Dutton Scudder

In a branch of medicine rife with paradoxes, contradictions, inconsistencies, and illogic, episiotomy crowns them all. The major argument for episiotomy is that it protects the perineum from injury, a protection accomplished by slicing through perineal skin, connective, tissue, and muscle. — Henci Goer

Theory has nothing to do with a work of art. Pictures which are interpretable, and which contain a meaning, are bad pictures. A picture presents itself as the Unmanageable, the Illogical, the Meaningless. — Gerhard Richter

Our musical alphabet is poor and illogical. — Edgard Varese

Most God-ordained dreams die because we are not willing to do something that seems illogical — Mark Batterson

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