Quotes About Logic

Men suppose their reason has command over their words; still it happens that words in return exercise authority on reason

Reason guides but a small part of man, and the rest obeys feeling, true or false, and passion, good or bad.

The trouble with straw men is it only takes a single match to set them ablaze.

The mind is the attribute of man. When man is born, he comes into existence with only one weapon with him--The reasoning mind.

The mind of man is more intuitive than logical, and comprehends more than it can coordinate.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

'Without the help of mathematics,' the wise man continued, 'the art could not advance and all the sciences would perish.'

Logic only gives man what he needs... Magic gives him what he wants.

When a person does something, it has the man or woman look about it. It drips with humanity. You can follow the logic of it and see the meaning behind it.

Don't argue! You cannot win, you cannot beat a woman in a arguement. It's impossble you will not win. Cause men, we are handicapped when it comes to arguing cause we have a need to make sense

Two times two will be four even without my will. Is that what you call man's free will?

The only bit of logic-based public bathroom humor I know is: the difference between men and women is that between the statement [P and not Q] and the statement [Q and not P].

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

Man has a tendency to try to give clear reasons to be rational, but often you can see how all those reasons are not convincing and turn out to be a big nonsense.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

Men are so necessarily mad, that not to be mad would amount to another form of madness.

The logical man must either deny all miracles or none, and our American Indian myths and hero stories are perhaps, in themselves, quite as credible as those of the Hebrews of old.

A wise man, therefore, proportions his belief to the evidence.

The pride of men will not often suffer reason to have scope until it can be no longer of service.

Mathematics is man's own handiwork, subject only to the limitations imposed by the laws of thought.

Brutes by their natural instinct have produced many discoveries, whereas men by discussion and the conclusions of reason have given birth to few or none.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

He may be mad, but there's method in his madness. There nearly always is method in madness. It's what drives men mad, being methodical.

The illogical man is what advertising is after. This is why advertising is so anti-rational; this is why it aims at uprooting not only the rationality of man but his common sense.