Logic Quotes
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There is something about poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired. (Quote by - Edward Young)
Hypothetical questions get hypothetical answers. (Quote by - Joan Baez)
Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer. (Quote by - Robert Graves)
Logic hasn't wholly dispelled the society of witches and prophets and sorcerers and soothsayers. (Quote by - Raymond F. Jones)
Capitalism inevitably and by virtue of the very logic of its civilization creates, educates and subsidizes a vested interest in social unrest. (Quote by - J A Schumpeter)
Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it (Quote by - Mark Twain)
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence (Quote by - Joseph Wood Krutch)
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. (Quote by - Fyodor Dostoevsky)
Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Against logic there is no armour like ignorance. (Quote by - Laurence Peter)
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence. (Quote by - Charles K. Kettering)
Why should I live my whole life where I don't want to be. [it's a good point - pretty hard to argue with that sort of logic really isn't it!] (Quote by - Terry Goodkind)
No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic (Quote by - G H Lewes)
In a mind all logic is like a knife blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
Logic is one thing and Common Sense another. (Quote by - Elbert Hubbard)
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth (Quote by - Jean de la Bruyere)
Logic is the anatomy of thought. (Quote by - John Locke)
The logic of words should yield to the logic of realities. (Quote by - Louis Brandeis)
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end (Quote by - Leonard Nimoy)
The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it. (Quote by - Bernard De Voto)
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. (Quote by - Charles Lindbergh)
The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. (Quote by - A. N. Wilson)
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking. (Quote by - Mason Cooley)
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing. (Quote by - Claude Levi-Strauss)
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge. (Quote by - Stendhal)
With the end of the nominating process, American politics leaves logic behind. (Quote by - Theodore H White)
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
It is the logic of our times, No subject for immortal verse- That we who lived by honest dreams Defend the bad against the worse. (Quote by - C Day-Lewis)
Religion is love; in no case is it logic. (Quote by - Beatrice Potter Webb)
There is this great idea about the logic of a politician, along the lines of: "Something must be done, this is something, therefore we must do it. (Quote by - Antony Jay)
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel (Quote by - Ivan Turgenev)
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it (Quote by - Ludwig Wittgenstein)
A mouse might be in a cookie jar.. but he is not a cookie Casper Ten Boom, father of Corrie Ten Boom, author of The Hiding Place. (Quote by - Casper Ten Boom)
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. (Quote by - Lord Dunsany)
Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. (Quote by - Samuel Butler)
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. (Quote by - William E Gladstone)
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind. (Quote by - W B Yeats)
Practice has a logic which is not that of the logician. (Quote by - Pierre Bourdieu)
Feelings are not supposed to be logical. Dangerous is the man who has rationalized his emotions. (Quote by - David Borenstein )
The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.(Quote by - Aldous Huxley)
Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
I don't see the logic of rejecting data just because they seem incredible. (Quote by - Fred Hoyle)
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced. (Quote by - André Gide)
An action doesn't have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn't have to be right just because it has its logic. (Quote by - Lion Feuchtwanger)
Better to be without logic than without feeling. (Quote by - Charlotte Brontë)
Logics will get you from A to B, Imagination will take you everywhere. (Quote by - Albert Einstein)
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. (Quote by - Rabindranath Tagore)
When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. (Quote by - Dale Carnegie)
Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat. (Quote by - Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Logic, my dear Zoe, merely enables one to be wrong with authority. (Quote by - Doctor Who)
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle. (Quote by - Rita Mae Brown)
Logic is in the eye of the logician. (Quote by - Gloria Steinem)
