Quotes About Logic

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ...[is] outside the domain of mathematics.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

Tears are not arguments.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief