Quotes About Logic

Nature is the source of all true knowledge. She has her own logic, her own laws, she has no effect without cause nor invention without necessity.

If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.

There can be no doubt that the knowledge of logic is of considerable practical importance for everyone who desires to think and to infer correctly.

Theory is the essence of facts. Without theory scientific knowledge would be only worthy of the madhouse.

Knowledge of the fact differs from knowledge of the reason for the fact.

The kind of intelligence a genius has is a different sort of intelligence. The thinking of a genius does not proceed logically. It leaps with great ellipses. It pulls knowledge from God knows where.

Mathematicians create by acts of insights and intuition. Logic then sanctions the conquests of intuition.

A knowledge of combinations is the foundation of positional chess.

Philosophical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from concepts ; mathematical knowledge is the knowledge gained by reason from the construction of concepts.

Nevertheless, I consider OOP as an aspect of programming in the large; that is, as an aspect that logically follows programming in the small and requires sound knowledge of procedural programming.

Knowledge is awareness, and to it there are many paths, not all of them paved with logic.

Whatever we know without inference is mental.

A presumption of any fact is, properly, an inferring of that fact from other facts that are known; it is an act of reasoning; and much of human knowledge on all subjects is derived from this source.

Faith is the Knowledge of the Heart, Logick the Knowledge of the Mind.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

Our capacity for fulfillment can come only through faith and feelings. But our capacity for survival must come from reason and knowledge.

Through logic and inference we can prove anything. Therefore, logic and inference, in contrast to ordinary daily living experience, are secondary instruments of knowledge. Probably tertiary.

If we have a better understanding of knowledge than we do of such justification or competence, then we can explain the latter through the former.

To argue without knowledge is like trying to weave without thread.

An educated theologian: someone who's better at rationalizing what they're pretending to know.

If you cheat on reason with emotion you will go bankrupt.

Emotions are enmeshed in the neural networks of reason.

People in good moods are better at inductive reasoning and creative problem solving.

Education: free and compulsory - what a way to learn logic!