"It had to be a trick or you couldn't have done it."

Logic, Impossibility, Truth, Reality

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"It is illogical to say, as many etatists do, that liberalism is hostile to or hates the state, because it is opposed to the transfer of the ownership of railroads or cotton mills to the state. If a man says that sulphuric acid does not make a good hand lotion, he is not expressing hostility to sulphuric acid as such; he is simply giving his opinion concerning the limitations of its use."

Ludwig von Mises, Austrian Economist

Logic, Opinion, Reason, State

"We seldom make logical mistakes, but often have mistaken logics."

Raheel Farooq, Pakistani Writer

Logic, Mistake, Learning, Reasoning

"A thousand minus one is never a thousand."

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah, Ghanaian Author

Logic, Numbers, Values, Difference

"In order to disprove the assertion that all crows are black, one white crow is sufficient."

William James, American Philosopher

Logic, Crows, Black, Evidence

"For nothing is more democratic than logic, it is no respecter of persons and makes no distinction between crooked and straight noses."

Friedrich Nietzsche, German Philosopher

Logic, Equality, Justice, Reason

"Anything that thinks logically can be fooled by something else that thinks at least as logically as it does."

Douglas Adams, English Writer

Logic, Thought, Mind, Reason

"I was upset. I had always believed logic was a universal weapon and now I realized how its validity depended on the way it was employed."

Umberto Eco, Italian Novelist

Logic, Reason, Observation, Learning

"A narrow hallway is all that separates rational from irrational, creativity from insanity, and intelligence from stupidity."

Kilroy J. Oldster, American Author

Logic, Creativity, Insanity, Intelligence, Stupidity

"The existence of a majority logically implies a corresponding minority."

Philip K. Dick, American Writer

Logic, Majority, Minority, Existence

"The rule is, jam tomorrow and jam yesterday - but never jam today."

Lewis Carroll, English Author

Logic, Today, Tomorrow, Yesterday

Explore more quotes by Orson Scott Card

"If he did not speak his tale, it grew dank and musty, it shrank inside him, while with the telling the tale stayed fresh and virtuous."

Life

"They have influence, but no power." "In my experience, influence is power."

Power

"Nights were so real that days began to seem dreamlike to him."

Perception

"I think it's impossible to really understand somebody, what they want, what they believe, and not love them the way they love themselves."

Love

"But my eagerness to sacrifice little children in order to save mankind is wearing thin."

Morality

"Happiness is not a life without pain, but rather a life in which the pain is traded for a worthy price."

Happiness

"Fatherhood to us was an act of passion, soon forgot; but not to Orem ap Avonap. Never guessing that the blond and happy farmer was no blood of his, Orem had taken a part of that simple man into himself and saved it for this time. At any time in the Palace he might run by, Youth on this shoulders or, as time went by, toddling along behind."

Family

"But it was not the boyish grin she had known when he bounded along the low-gravity inner corridors of Battle School. This smile had weariness in it, and old fears long mastered but still present. It was the smile of wisdom."

Wisdom

"Madness, and then illumination."

Psychology

"I think Bonzo died. I dreamed about it last night. I remembered the way he looked after I jammed his face with my head. I think I must have pushed his nose back into his brain. The blood was coming out of his eyes. I think he was dead right then."

Mortality