Quotes About Logic

Chess helps you to concentrate, improve your logic. It teaches you to play by the rules and take responsibility for your actions, how to problem solve in an uncertain environment.

The war existing between the senses and reason.

Not our Logical, Mensurative faculty, but our Imaginative one is King over us; I might say, Priest and Prophet to lead us heavenward; or Magician and Wizard to lead us hellward.

In any war, the first casualty is common sense, and the second is free and open discussion.

I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

...(Charles) Reich discredits reason because it has been used to justify the war in Vietnam, which is like deciding that because your mother has cooked you a few bad meals you must never eat again.

Wisdom lies in thinking. The spear-head of thinking is rationalism.

Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.

Le raison avant la passion - Reason over passion.

People expect Byzantine, Machiavellian logic from politicians. But the truth is simple. Trial lawyers learn a good rule: 'Don't decide what you don't have to decide.' That's not evasion, it's wisdom.

What can be asserted without evidence can be dismissed without evidence.

An ounce of emotion is equal to a ton of facts.

Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including orderliness, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty.

Science gives us knowledge, but only philosophy can give us wisdom.

For the things of this world cannot be made known without a knowledge of mathematics.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.

The legislation of Quran will spread all over the world, because it agrees with the mind, logic and wisdom.

Doubt the conventional wisdom unless you can verify it with reason and experiment

There is danger that, if the Court does not temper its doctrinaire logic with a little practical wisdom, it will convert the constitutional Bill of Rights into a suicide pact.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Whoever despises the high wisdom of mathematics nourishes himself on delusion and will never still the sophistic sciences whose only product is an eternal uproar.

The lover knows much more about absolute good and universal beauty than any logician or theologian, unless the latter, too, be lovers in disguise.

It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into.