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Quotes About Logic

every church should train its members in theology, hermeneutics, and logic, so that they may better handle the word of truth.
~ Unknown
If it refuses to honor biblical revelation, we shall whip it into submission with the hard chain of logic.
~ Unknown
A rational way of thinking and knowing arrives at conclusions validly and necessarily deduced from true premises.
~ Unknown
Man did not invent logic, but logic came from God, and we have some grasp of logic and perceive its necessity because God thinks in accordance with the principles of logic, and he has made us in his own image. God thinks in accordance with the principles of logic not because he is subservient to a set of rules that are higher than himself; rather, the principles of logic are descriptions of the way God thinks. They are descriptions of his rational nature.
~ Unknown
La passione è uno strumento di difesa della ragione. Perché non basta avere ragione: bisogna anche, appassionatamente, difenderla.
~ Unknown
Sabism is a thematic pallet, philosophical colourism, chromatic signature and dual art, soft scale, poetics of attractiveness, mythologism, actual value, logism of color, active color, logical panel.
~ Unknown
Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual things", i.e., of the development of the entire concrete content of the world and of its cognition, i.e., the sum-total, the conclusion of the History of knowledge of the world.
~ Unknown
Common sense is quite rare.
~ Voltaire
Nothing can be more contrary to religion and the clergy than reason and common sense.
~ Voltaire
Faith consists in believing what reason cannot.
~ Voltaire
Common sense is not so common.
~ Voltaire
Once the people begin to reason, all is lost.
~ Voltaire
There is an astonishing imagination, even in the science of mathematics... We repeat, there was far more imagination in the head of Archimedes than in that of Homer.
~ Voltaire
Dogmatic theological statements are neither logical propositions nor poetic utterances. They are shaggy dog stories; they have a point, but he who tries too hard to get it will miss it.
~ W. H. Auden
Those who will not reason, perish in the act. Those who will not act, perish for that reason.
~ W.H. Auden
Reason requires that I approve The light-bulb which I cannot love
~ W.H. Auden
Yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation" yields falsehood when preceded by its quotation.
~ Unknown
When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.
~ Gerry Spence
Naming one thing after another cannot, logically, increase the chances of the new thing turning out like the old thing.
~ Ned Beauman
You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.
~ Samuel Johnson
It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable not a logic, a symbol rather than reason by which men are moved.
~ Irwin Edman
Computers are like humans - they do everything except think.
~ John von Neumann
Everybody in this country should learn how to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think.
~ Steve Jobs
The computer is a moron.
~ Peter Drucker