Logic Quotes

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Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.

His was not a small mind bothered by logic and consistency.

Logic rests on the axiom that existence exists. Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification.

A truth that's told with bad intentBeats all the lies you can invent.

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

If our logic is to find the common world intelligible, it must not be hostile, but must be inspired by a genuine acceptance such as is not usually to be found among metaphysicians.

I assure you, my good Lestrade, that I have an excellent reason for everything that I do.

All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.

When a man in a forest thinks he is going forward in a straight line, in reality he is going in a circle, I did my best to go in a circle, hoping to go in a straight line.

The best minds have their soft spots and sometimes feel somewhat bruised by the scant respect of logic.

I win by means of nothing but logic and I surrender to nothing but logic. I do not surrender my reason or deal with men who surrender theirs.

There is no point in using the word 'impossible' to describe something that has clearly happened.

For he did not seem to know any way to do a person a kindness but by killing him.

[She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Before we begin to investigate that, let us try to realize what we do know, so as to make the most of it, and to separate the essential from the accidental.

In a republican nation, whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of first importance

I'm an old-fashioned guy. I believe in the Enlightenment, and reason, and logic, and you know, facts.

It’s whatever the majority deems it to be. It’s not necessarily the best or the most logical, but it’s the one that has become adapted to the desires of society as a whole.

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

When once your point of view is changed, the very thing which was so damning becomes a clue to the truth.

All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others.

We must look for consistency. Where there is a want of it we must suspect deception.

The person who wishes to attain human perfection should study logic first, next mathematics, then physics, and, lastly, metaphysics.

The interesting thing about humor is that in humor, you - in logic, something is A or not A. In humor, it's both A and not A.

You can't win. Logic has no power over her when her territory has been invaded by heathens.

A man of logic is a man of sin.

I know that if you don't look for an alternative, Sophos, you certainly won't find one.

There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.

Woodrow Wilson intimate Edward House urged that his boss never first be approached by argument. Instead, the President could be made most receptive by laying a groundwork of 'common hatred".

Cynicism, like gullibility, is a symptom of underdeveloped critical faculties.

It is obvious that [leftists] are not cool-headed logicians systematically analyzing the foundations of knowledge. They are deeply involved emotionally in their attack on truth and reality.

There is no logic in logics except an illogical logic.

Music enables mind to compose things in the outer limit of logic.

Persistence wears down resistance.

It is from their foes, not their friends, that cities learn the lesson of building high walls

In liberal logic, if life is unfair then the answer is to turn more tax money over to politicians, to spend in ways that will increase their chances of getting reelected.

You say that I'm nobody, and you agree that nobody's perfect.Based on logic, I'm a perfect person according to your opinion.

When you kill a man, You steal a life. You steal his wife's right to a husband, Rob his children of a father.

It's amazing how once the mind is free of emotional pollution, logic and clarity emerge.

Whenever there's something wrong with your writing, suspect that there's something wrong with your thinking.

Wrong way to think about it. Don't try to figure it out all at once.

Relying only on logic, on what can be factually established, may inform or intimidate, but it will rarely stir anyone into action or change.

Takes more than combat gear to make a man Takes more than a license for a gun Confront your enemies, avoid them when you can A gentleman will walk but never run

There can never be surprises in logic.

Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible.

The last thing Scripture should do is make you blind in the world. Instead, you hear everything, see everything, and feel everything because everything just so happens to point right back to it.

To Americans, either/or means both.

If you can say it... it's obvious.