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
Perfect nonsense goes on in the world. Sometimes there is no plausibility at all — Nikolai Gogol
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
... causes (pains) are not logical constructions out of their effects (behaviour). — Hilary Putnam
Religion is love; in no case is it logic. — Beatrice Webb
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. — Ambrose Bierce
Short Illogical Quotes
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
Racists are irrational and illogical in their attempts to justify their prejudices. — Sargent Shriver
Mr Spock Illogical Quotes
May I say that I have not thoroughly enjoyed serving with humans? I find their illogic and foolish emotions a constant irritant. — Leonard Nimoy
I've never understood the female capacity to avoid a direct answer to any question. — Leonard Nimoy
Interesting. You Earth people glorify organized violence for 40 centuries, but you imprison those who employ it privately. — Leonard Nimoy
Curious how often you Humans manage to obtain that which you do not want. — Leonard Nimoy
Where there is no emotion, there is no motive for violence. — Leonard Nimoy
Spock Quotes
Without followers, evil cannot spread. — Leonard Nimoy
A stallion must first be broken before it can reach its potential. — Leonard Nimoy
My first crush was Spock. I thought it didn't get any better than Spock. — Selma Blair
The thing I was attracted to as a little girl was Kirk, Bones and Spock, and their utter loyalty. There's nothing more powerful than that. — Jolene Blalock
Insufficient facts always invite danger. — Leonard Nimoy
I am not Spock. But given the choice, if I had to be someone else, I would be Spock. If someone said, "You can have the choice of being any other TV character ever played," I would choose Spock. I like him. I admire him. I respect him — Leonard Nimoy
After a time, you may find that having is not so pleasing a thing after all as wanting. It is not logical, but is often true. — Leonard Nimoy
Fascinating is a word I use for the unexpected, in this case I would think interesting would suffice. — Leonard Nimoy
Cool, logical, big-eared and level-headed, the center of Star Trek's optimistic, inclusive vision of humanity's future. I loved Spock. — Barack Obama
Illogic 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
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
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
Logical Fallacy Quotes
Science is simply common sense at its best. — Thomas Huxley
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. — Thomas Huxley
By committing the scientific method to religious claims you're committing a logical fallacy — Francis Collins
Scientific accuracy confirms the Bible is the Word of God. — Adrian Rogers
A sane mind should not be guilty of a logical fallacy, yet there are very fine minds incapable of following mathematical demonstrations. — Henri Poincare
If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy. — George Soros
Just because science can't in practice explain things like the love that motivates a poet to write a sonnet, that doesn't mean that religion can. It's a simple and logical fallacy to say, "If science can't do something therefore religion can. — Richard Dawkins
The Republican argument that raising the debt ceiling encourages additional future spending is logically irresponsible. The debt ceiling has to be raised to authorize spending already approved by Congress. Despite that fallacy, the GOP has been able to score political points with its argument. — Eliot Spitzer
In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and pretense, then must pass the test of biblical accuracy in order to proceed as an adopted, reliable truth. — Criss Jami
Science is simply common sense at its best--that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic. — Thomas Henry Huxley
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
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
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
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
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
Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption. — Marilyn vos Savant
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
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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