We especially need imagination in science. It is not all mathematics, nor all logic, but it is somewhat beauty and poetry.
—Maria Mitchell
Sometimes the decisions that seem the most illogical at the time, later on turn out to be the best decisions of our lives.
—Madeleine Beckett in Color of Loneliness
When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.
—R. Buckminster Fuller
The body has its own way of knowing, a knowing that has little to do with logic, and much to do with truth; little to do with control, and much to do with acceptance; little to do with division and analysis, and much to do with union.
—Marilyn Sewell
We live in a Newtonian world of Einsteinian physics ruled by Frankenstein logic.
—David Russell
The philosopher Ludwig Wittgenstein once remarked that if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you five, that is a mistake. But if you ask a man how much is two plus two and he tells you ninety-seven, that is no longer a mistake. The man you are talking to is operating with a wholly different logic from your own.
—Thomas Friedman
Every crime is born of necessity. If you want less crime, you must change the conditions. Poverty makes crime. Want, rags, crusts, failure, misfortune—all these awake the wild beast in man, and finally he takes, and takes contrary to law, and becomes a criminal. And what do you do with him? You punish him. Why not punish a man for having consumption? The time will come when you will see that that is just as logical.
—Robert Ingersoll
I prefer the company of peasants because they have not been educated sufficiently to reason incorrectly.
—Michel de Montaigne
All general statements are false.
—Unknown
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.
—Friedrich Nietzsche
Life isn't always about logic and reasons—sometimes you just have to close your eyes and jump. Particularly when it comes to relationships.
—Julie James in Just the Sexiest Man Alive
To pretend, I actually do the thing: I have therefore only pretended to pretend.
—Jacques Derrida
Many people would sooner die than think; In fact, they do so.
—Bertrand Russell
Love is the strangest, most illogical thing in the world.
—Jennifer E. Smith in The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight
It is undesirable to believe a proposition when there is no ground whatsoever for supposing it is true.
—Bertrand Russell