Quotes About Logic

The theory of truth is a series of truisms.

When you have eliminated the impossible, what is left, no matter how unlikely, is the truth.

When power replaces truth as the goal, assertion replaces reason as the path

... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

I would prefer to just continue to speak about truth and to speak about what makes sense.

Moral claims aren't, as a class, truth-value apt or not.

Who never found what good from science grew, Save the grand truth, that one and one make two.

Liars are experts in chopping logic and missing the truth slightly - 'Did God say not to eat from any tree?' In order to pin a liar down, words must be defined in the most careful manner available.

[Heraclitus had] pride not in logical knowledge but rather in intuitive grasping of the truth.

Each word of Heraclitus expresses the pride and the majesty of truth, but of truth grasped in intuitions rather than attained by the rope ladder of logic.

But man is so addicted to systems and to abstract conclusions that he is prepared deliberately to distort the truth, to close his eyes and ears, but justify his logic at all cost.

If reason is a universal faculty, the decision of the common mind is the nearest criterion of truth.

The peculiarity of the evidence of mathematical truths is that all the argument is on one side.

If you think that moral reasoning is something we do to figure out the truth, you'll be constantly frustrated by how foolish, biased, and illogical people become when they disagree with you.

Man discovers truth by reason only, not by faith.

Faith holds on to truth and reason from what it knows to be fact.

Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.

It cannot be too often repeated, that truth scorns the assistance of miracle.

The errors of definitions multiply themselves according as the reckoning proceeds; and lead men into absurdities, which at last they see but cannot avoid, without reckoning anew from the beginning.

To give the theory plenty of 'rope' and see if it hangs itself eventually is better tactics than to choke it off at the outset b abstract accusations of self-contradiction

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

I say, sir, that you can never make an intelligent judgment without evidence.

Intelligence is worthless without common sense.