Quotes About Logic

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

There is no point in arguing if you are not susceptible to reason. Embrace your cynicism. Hug it.

Passionate subjects must be dealt with in cold blood.

My behavior makes perfect sense to me.

Here was a man who'd learned to write before he could think, a man who threw out logical fallacies like tacks behind a getaway car, and he always always always got away.

My success was not based so much on any great intelligence but on great common sense.

I fail to see why you did not understand that groceryman, he did not call it "ground ground nuts," he called it "ground ground-nuts" which is the only really SENSible thing to call it. Peanuts grow in the GROUND and are therefore GROUND-nuts, and after you take them out of the ground you grind them up and you have ground ground-nuts, which is a much more accurate name than peanut butter, you just don't understand English.

Philosophy claims to show the true nature of this world, and in a sense the claim is justified. Philosophy unmasks religion as the general theory of this inverted world, as its encyclopaedic guide, its popular logic, its "spiritual point d'honneur," and its moral justification. Philosophy liberates man from nonphilosophy, i.e., from fantastic ideas uncritically accepted. Consequently philosophy is the spiritual quintessence of its epoch.

Just as houses are made of stones, so is science made of facts.

It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover.

Science is facts.

Common sense is calculation applied to life.

Kærligheden er så logisk: Alle modsætninger bliver forudsætninger og sætningerne kommer forud for logikken: Jeg elsker dig, fordi det er sådan.

We can only reason from what is; we can reason on actualities, but not on possibilities.

All perception of truth is the detection of an analogy we reason from our hands to our head.

Neither great poverty nor great riches will hear reason.

But you see, our society is still trapped in this binary, black/white logic and that has had some very positive implications for our generation. It's had some very negative ones as well and one of the negative ones is that it creates enormous identity problems for people who have one black ancestor and all white ancestors for example.

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

Organizational effectiveness does not lie in that narrow minded concept called rationality. It lies in the blend of clearheaded logic and powerful intuition

There are men who can write poetry, and there are men who can read balance sheets. The men who can read balance sheets cannot write.

Explain it as we may, a martial strain will urge a man into the front rank of battle sooner than an argument, and a fine anthem excite his devotion more certainly than a logical discourse.

Prejudice assumes the garb of reason, but the cheat is too thin.

Mathematics is the queen of disciplines.... it will drive the nonsense out of your head!

Even in the valley of the shadow of death, two and two do not make six.