Quotes About Logic

The time to being writing an article is when you have finished it to your satisfaction. By that time you begin to clearly and logically perceive what it is you really want to say.

The difference between truth and fiction is that fiction has to make sense.

It's no wonder truth is stranger than fiction. Fiction has to make sense.

think you are wrong in saying we ought to follow the methods of Sherlock Holmes. We ought rather to follow Dupin, Poe's detective, the man who preceded Sherlock Holmes.

Again, Himmel Street was a trail of people, and again, Papa left his accordion. Rosa reminded him to take it, but he refused. 'I didn't take it last time,' he explained, 'and we lived.' War clearly blurred the distinction between logic and superstition.

War clearly blurred the distinction between logic and superstition.

The ability to detect fallacy is one of the things that makes democratic life decent.

Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the god's withdrawal.

Being' cannot be derived from higher concepts by definition, nor can it be presented through lower ones. But does this imply being no longer offers a problem? Not at all. We can infer only that 'Being' cannot have the character of an entity. Thus we cannot apply to Being the concept of 'definition' as presented in traditional logic, [...] which, within certain limits, provides a justifiable way of characterizing 'entities'.

Nothing religious is ever destroyed by logic; it is destroyed only by the gods' withdrawal.

On ne peut entreprendre de définir l'être sans tomber dans cette absurdité: car on ne peut définir un mot sans commencer par celui-ci, c'est, soit qu'on l'exprime ou qu'on le sous-entende. Donc pour définir l'être, il faudrait dire c'est, et ainsi employer le mot défini dans sa définition.

Certainly, dialectic is a magnificent thing. But one never finds the dialectic, as if it were a mill which exists somewhere and into which one empties whatever one chooses, or whose mechanism one could modify according to taste and need.

The toughminded person always examines the facts before he reaches conclusions; in short, he postjudges.

Es un error capital teorizar antes de tener datos. Sin darse cuenta, uno comienza a distorsionar los hechos para que se ajusten a las teorías, en lugar de formular teorías que se ajusten a los hechos

starts upon the supposition that when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It

But love is an emotional thing, and whatever is emotional is opposed to that true cold reason which I place above all things. I should never marry myself, lest I bias my judgment.

It is a capital mistake to theorize before you have all the evidence. It biases the judgment." "You

process, said I, starts upon the supposition that when you have eliminated all which is impossible, then whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth. It may well be that several explanations remain, in which case one tries test after test until one or other of them has a convincing amount of support.

Arthur Conan Doyle

Excellent! I cried. Elementary, said he. It

Arthur Conan Doyle

when a fact appears to be opposed to a long train of deductions, it invariably proves to be capable of bearing some other interpretation.

Cuando has eliminado lo imposible, lo que queda, por muy improbable que parezca, tiene que ser la verdad.

Arthur Conan Doyle