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Logician Inspirational Quotes (2011)

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That which is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it
Aristotle
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A very populous city can rarely, if ever, be well governed.
Aristotle
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I cannot bear to think that our young men are merely living four years in a country club and spending their lives wholly in a spirit of calculation and snobbishness.
John Grier Hibben
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Chance... in the accommodation peculiar to sensorimotor intelligence, plays the same role as in scientific discovery. It is only useful to the genius and its revelations remain meaningless to the unskilled.
Jean Piaget
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The scientist is indistinguishable from the common man in his sense of evidence, except that the scientist is more careful.
Willard Van Orman Quine
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'Have some wine,' the March Hare said in an encouraging tone. Alice looked around the table, but there was nothing on it but tea. 'I don't see any wine,' she remarked. 'There isn't any,' said the March Hare.
Lewis Carroll
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It is a very inconvenient habit of kittens (Alice had once made the remark) that whatever you say to them, they always purr.
Lewis Carroll
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I do not pretend to start with precise questions. I do not think you can start with anything precise. You have to achieve such precision as you can, as you go along.
Bertrand Russell
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Indemnity for the past and security for the future.
Bertrand Russell
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Everytime we teach a child something, we prevent him from inventing it himself.
Jean Piaget
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It was while teaching philosophy that I saw how easily one can say ... what one wants to say. ... In fact, I became particularly aware if the dangers of speculation ... It's so much easier than digging out the facts. You sit in your office and build a system. But with my training in biology, I felt this kind of undertaking precarious.
Jean Piaget
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Epithets, like pepper, Give zest to what you write And if you strew them sparely, They whet the appetite: But if you lay them on too thick, You spoil the matter quite!
Lewis Carroll
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There is no excuse for deceiving children. And when, as must happen in conventional families, they find that their parents have lied, they lose confidence in them and feel justified in lying to them.
Bertrand Russell
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Whether if soul did not exist time would exist or not, is a question that may fairly be asked for if there cannot be someone to count there cannot be anything that can be counted, so that evidently there cannot be number for number is either what has been, or what can be, counted.
Aristotle
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What has human happiness to do with morals? The object of morals is not to make people happy.
Bertrand Russell
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In autumn, when the leaves are brown, Take pen and ink, and write it down.
Lewis Carroll
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Why is it that all those who have become eminent in philosophy, politics, poetry, or the arts are clearly of an atrabilious temperament and some of them to such an extent as to be affected by diseases caused by black bile?
Aristotle
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The wise man knows of all things, as far as possible, although he has no knowledge of each of them in detail
Aristotle
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Where some people are very wealthy and others have nothing, the result will be either extreme democracy or absolute oligarchy, or despotism will come from either of those excesses.
Aristotle
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Patience is so like fortitude that she seems either her sister or her daughter.
Aristotle
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A million million years gives us some time to prepare for the end . . . let us make the best of it.
Bertrand Russell
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Art is identical with a state of capacity to make, involving a true course of reasoning.
Aristotle
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There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.
Alfred Tarski
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Neither old people nor sour people seem to make friends easily for there is little that is pleasant in them.
Aristotle
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