Logic works; metaphysics contemplates.
—Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French Writer, Moralist
Syllogism is of necessary use, even to the lovers of truth, to show them the fallacies that are often concealed in florid, witty, or involved discourses.
—John Locke (1632–1704) English Philosopher, Physician
Logic is one thing and Common Sense another.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-born British Philosopher
Nature cares nothing for logic, our human logic: she has her own, which we do not recognize and do not acknowledge until we are crushed under its wheel
—Ivan Turgenev (1818–83) Russian Novelist, Playwright
Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.
—Indian Proverb
Logic and rhetoric make men able to contend.—Logic differeth from rhetoric as the fist from the palm; the one close, the other at large.
—Francis Bacon (1561–1626) English Philosopher
Language is a form of human reason, which has its internal logic of which man knows nothing.
—Claude Levi-Strauss (1908–2009) French Social Anthropologist, Philosopher
Reason also is choice.
—John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater
Logic and consistency are luxuries for the gods and the lower animals.
—Samuel Butler
If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
—Samuel Butler
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
—Ambrose Bierce (1842–1913) American Short-story Writer, Journalist
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
—Rabindranath Tagore (1861–1941) Bengali Poet, Polymath
Logic is the art of convincing us of some truth.
—Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author
To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission.
—Charles Lindbergh (1902–74) American Aviator, Inventor, Conservationist
Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-born British Philosopher
The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
—Andre Gide (1869–1951) French Novelist
Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere.
—Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born Physicist
Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.
—Charles F. Kettering (1876–1958) American Inventor, Entrepreneur, Businessperson
Reason is a supple nymph, and slippery as a fish by nature. She had as leave give her kiss to an absurdity any day, as to syllogistic truth. The absurdity may turn out truer.
—D. H. Lawrence (1885–1930) English Novelist, Playwright, Poet, Essayist, Literary Critic
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
—Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American Aphorist
Intuition is the supra-logic that cuts out all the routine processes of thought and leaps straight from the problem to the answer.
—Robert Ranke Graves (1895–1985) English Poet, Novelist, Critic, Classical Scholar
Logic is a large drawer, containing some needful 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.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
—Leonard Nimoy (1931–2015) American Actor
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
—Charlotte Bronte (1816–1855) English Novelist, Poet
Humor is something that thrives between man’s aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.
—Victor Borge (1909–2000) Danish-American Comedian, Musician
I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms.
—Thomas Browne (1605–82) English Author, Physician
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
—John Dewey (1859–1952) American Philosopher, Psychologist, Educator
Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth
—Jean de La Bruyere (1645–96) French Satiric Moralist, Author
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–95) English Biologist