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Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that their decisions are often made for what are not, strictly speaking, reasons of logic.

— Ken Auletta

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

The truth is that many people set rules to keep from making decisions.

— Mike Krzyzewski

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

— George Bancroft

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

— Jean de la Bruyere

Individuals have to decide what is true and real for them.

— Tom Cruise

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

— Gloria Steinem

Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

— Luigi Pirandello

It is such a complex matter we live within, it is impossible to track logic and decision making really, so therefore each choice can actually only be seen as coincidence.

— Alva Noto

Sometimes, people aren't as consciously aware of their decisions as they should be.

— Timothy Olyphant

✗Opposing Perspectives

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

— Samuel Butler