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Logic Quotes and Sayings

Logic is the anatomy of thought
John Locke

I am beyond logic and rationality.
Imelda Marcos

Love is a decision * not an emotion
Author Unknown

Logic is in the eye of the logician.
Gloria Steinem

Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end
Leonard Nimoy

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence
Joseph Wood Krutch

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth
Jean de la Bruyere

Logic is like the sword-those who appeal to it shall perish by it.
Samuel Butler

No, no, you’re not thinking; you’re just being logical.
Niels Bohr

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.
Elbert Hubbard-1927

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
Elbert Hubbard

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life’s vast flock of wild irrationalities.
Paul Eldridge

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
Antoine de Saint-Exupery-1942

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.
Rabindranath Tagore

Logic is logic. That’s all I say.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge
Stendhal

He that cannot reason is a fool.
He that will not is a bigot.
He that dare not is a slave.
Andrew Carnegie

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
Bertrand Russell

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.
Marcus Aurelius

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
Rita Mae Brown

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it
Ludwig Wittgenstein

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches. Aldous Huxley

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice
Elbert Hubbard

Logic hasn’t wholly dispelled the society of witches and prophets and sorcerers and soothsayers.
Raymond F. Jones

Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.
Benjamin Jowett

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.
Samuel Butler

But, logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett Dunsany

Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss-up.
Charles Sanders Peirce

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so, and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
Joseph Wood Krutch-1929

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
Author Unknown

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.
La Bruyère-1688

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
Blaise Pascal-1670

Logic* The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce

Often, the less there is to justify a traditional custom, the harder it is to get rid of it.
Mark Twain

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic
Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.
Oliver Wendell Holmes

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