Quotes About Logic

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

It is the brain, the little gray cells on which one must rely. One must seek the truth within--not without." ~ Poirot

Sometimes I feel sure he is as mad as a hatter and then, just as he is at his maddest, I find there is a method in his madness.

You should employ your little grey cells

Poirot said placidly, "One does not, you know, employ merely the muscles. I do not need to bend and measure the footprints and pick up the cigarette ends and examine the bent blades of grass. It is enough for me to sit back in my chair and think. It is this – " he tapped his egg-shaped head – "this, that functions!

If the little grey cells are not exercised, they grow the rust.

There's no reason why women shouldn't behave like rational beings," Simon asserted stolidly. Poirot said drily: "Quite frequently they do. That is even more upsetting!

The little grey cells, my friend, the little grey cells! They told me.

Hercule Poirot's methods are his own. Order and method, and 'the little gray cells'.

To say a man does mad things because he is mad is merely unintelligent and stupid. A madman is as logical and reasoned in his action as a sane man--given his peculiar biased point of view. For example, if a man insists on going out and squatting about in nothing but a loin cloth his conduct seems eccentric in the extreme. But once you know that the man himself is firmly convinced that he is Mahatma Gandhi, then his conduct becomes perfectly reasonable and logical.

Everything is simple, if you arrange the facts methodically

The thing people don't seem to want anywhere nowadays...is anyone who's got a bit of ordinary common sense...but I often think that that's the only thing the world really needs-just a bit of common sense.

One must have common sense, nothing is permanent, nothing endures. I have come to the conclusion that this place is run by a madman. A madman, let me tell you, can be very logical. If you are rich and logical and also mad, you can succeed for a very long time in living out your illusion. But in the end....in the end this will break up. Because, you see, it is not reasonable what happens here! That which is not reasonable must always pay the reckoning in the end. ~Dr. Barron

We all have the little grey cells. And so few of us know how to use them.

É il cervello, le piccole cellule grigie» si batté una mano sulla fronte, «la cosa su cui bisogna basarsi. I sensi inducono in errore. Bisogna cercare la verità dal di dentro, non dal di fuori.»

With method and logic one can accomplish anything!

People don't do things without a reason.

It is the brain, the little grey cells" — he topped his forehead — "on which one must rely. The senses mislead.

They're like children, really. Only children are far more logical which makes it difficult sometimes with them. But these people are illogical, they want to be reassured by your telling them what they want to believe. Then they're quite happy again for a bit.

Proof must be solid break walls of facts.

Being in love has a very bad effect on men - it seems to addle their wits.

deadly logic is one of the special characteristics of acute mania.

Every man should have aunts. They illustrate the triumph of guess work over logic.

Always the facts must be twisted to fit the theory!