Quotes

Quotes about Logic


Remember there's no such thing as a small act of kindness. Every act creates a ripple with no logical end.

Scott Adams

Hypotheses multiply so as to fill the gaps in factual knowledge concerning biological phenomena.

James D. Regan

In formal logic, a contradiction is the signal of defeat: but in the evolution of real knowledge, it marks the first step in progress toward victory.

Alfred North Whitehead

Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.

Claude Levi-Strauss

If language had been the creation not of poetry but of logic, we should only have one.

Friedrich Hebbel

That's not a lie, it's a terminological inexactitude. Also, a tactical misrepresentation.

Alexander Haig

Man has a limited biological capacity for change. When this capacity is overwhelmed, the capacity is in future shock.

Alvin Toffler

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

A. N. Wilson

Better to be without logic than without feeling.

Charlotte Brontë

Religion is love; in no case is it logic.

Beatrice Potter Webb

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

Lord Dunsany

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.

Benjamin Jowett

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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

Rabindranath Tagore

Logic is the anatomy of thought.

John Locke

. . . as for logic, it's in the eye of the logician.

Gloria Steinem

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

Ludwig Wittgenstein

The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities.

Louis Brandeis

Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere.

Albert Einstein

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

Bernard De Voto

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Elbert Hubbard

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Joseph Wood Krutch

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

William E Gladstone

To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.

Charles A. Lindbergh

Pure mathematics is, in its way, the poetry of logical ideas.

Max Wilhelm Dehn

Authors | Quotes | Digests | Submit | Interact | Store

Copyright © Classics Network. Contact Us