If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902) British Victorian Novelist, Essayist, Critic
If you are sitting on a felled tree in a pine forest enjoying the sunshine you can easily forget what time it is. Not that you could forget your gold watch, just the time of day.
—Elfriede Jelinek (b.1946) Austrian Novelist, Poet, Playwright
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
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
A man always has two reasons for what he does good one, and the real one.
—J. P. Morgan (1837–1913) American Financier, Philanthropist, Art Collector
An action doesn’t have to be wrong just because it is not logical. It doesn’t have to be right just because it has its logic.
—Lion Feuchtwanger (1884–1958) German Playwright, Novelist
Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.
—Laurence J. Peter (1919–90) Canadian-Born American Author
Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.
—Stendhal (Marie-Henri Beyle) (1783–1842) French Writer
Eloquence is logic on fire.
—Lyman Beecher (1775–1863) American Presbyterian Clergyman
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
—Mason Cooley (1927–2002) American Aphorist
Logic is one thing and Common Sense another.
—Elbert Hubbard (1856–1915) American Writer, Publisher, Artist, Philosopher
Logic is the science of the laws of thought as thought, that is, of the necessary conditions to which thought, in itself considered, is subject.
—William Hamilton, 9th Baronet (1788–1856) Scottish Philosopher, Metaphysician
Better to be without logic than without feeling.
—Charlotte Bronte (1816–1855) English Novelist, Poet
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
—Antoine de Saint-Exupery (1900–44) French Novelist, Aviator
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
—William Butler Yeats (1865–1939) Irish Poet, Dramatist
Reason also is choice.
—John Milton (1608–74) English Poet, Civil Servant, Scholar, Debater
Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.
—Joseph Wood Krutch (1893–1970) American Writer, Critic, Naturalist
Logic pervades the world; the limits of the world are also the limits of logic.
—Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951) Austrian-born British Philosopher
Logic works; metaphysics contemplates.
—Joseph Joubert (1754–1824) French Writer, Moralist
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
Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.
—Euripides (480–406 BCE) Ancient Greek Dramatist
Logic and consistency are luxuries for the gods and the lower animals.
—Samuel Butler (1835–1902) British Victorian Novelist, Essayist, Critic
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and they do the least work.
—Charles Caleb Colton (c.1780–1832) English Clergyman, Aphorist
Logic will not change an emotion, but action will.
—Indian Proverb
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 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
Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.
—Marlene Dietrich (1901–92) German-American Film Actress, Cabaret Performer
Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful 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 a poor guide compared with custom.
—Winston Churchill (1874–1965) British Leader, Historian, Journalist, Author
Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.
—William Ewart Gladstone (1809–98) English Liberal Statesman, Prime Minister
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