Quotes About Logic

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Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.

Have a very good reason for everything you do.

Our passion and principals are constantly in a frenzy, but begin to shift and waver, as we return to reason.

there was logic and order to the world; there was a system, and that system could be deciphered.

Finally, it is one aim of this book to press home the point that the logical issue is between Theism and Atheism. That there is no logical halting place between the two, and that any attempt to call a halt is little more than a concession to a desire for mental or social convenience, seems to me as clear as anything can well be.

Each stage of theistic belief grows out of the preceding stage, and if it can be shown that the beginning of this evolution arose in a huge blunder I quite fail to see how any subsequent development can convert this unmistakable blunder into a demonstrable truth.

Everything that is beautiful and noble is the product of reason and calculation.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

By simple common sense I don't believe in God, in none.

She wasn't] a logically reasoning woman, but God is good, and hearts may count in heaven as high as heads.

have you taken leave of your senses

You are to be in all things regulated and governed,' said the gentleman, 'by fact.

When we must pay the true price for the depletion of nature's gifts, materials will become more precious to us, and economic logic will reinforce, and not contradict, our heart's desire to treat the world with reverence and, when we receive nature's gifts, to use them well.

Evidence and logic are tools we use to justify and flesh out our beliefs, but we are deceiving ourselves to think that they are the source of our beliefs. I will return to this idea, because it is crucial to understanding the process of belief change as well; and clearly, for our world to have a chance of surviving, a lot of beliefs are going to have to change.

Instincts outsmart brains.

Ethics and Logic should be the most generally studied, because all practise them whether they have studied them or not.

Reason. If you follow it far enough, it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. But a wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

...to strengthen his armour by the study of logic...

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.

...but a skepticism pointing to the past for its confirmation whispers to us that metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

His madness foiled his reason...