Logic quotes and words of wisdom

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."
Rabindranath Tagore


"All men are frauds. The only difference between them is that some admit it. I myself deny it."
Henry Louis Mencken


"I"m a nobody, nobody is perfect, therefore I"m perfect."
Unknown


"It is by logic that we prove, but by intuition that we discover."
Henri Poincar


"It is through science that we prove, but through intuition that we discover."
Jules Henri Poincaré


"Logic and cold reason are poor weapons to fight fear and distrust. Only faith and generosity can overcome them."
Jawaharlal Nehru


"Logic is in the eye of the logician."
Gloria Steinem


"Logic is like the sword ? those who appeal to it shall perish by it."
Samuel Butler, the Younger


"Logic is neither a science or an art, but a dodge."
Benjamin Jowett


"Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence."
Morris Kline


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


"Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities."
Lord Dunsany


"Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit."
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry


"Riposte of "that old lady in the anecdote who was accused by her nieces of being illogical," Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?"
Edward Morgan "E. M." Forster


"SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent."
Ambrose Gwinett Bierce


"The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational"
A. N. Wilson


"The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners."
Lord Thomas Babington Macaulay


Interesting Quotes

Take away the right to say "fuck" and you take away the right to say "fuck the government."Lenny Bruce - (1923 - 1966)

In the long run, we are all dead.John Maynard Keynes - English economist (1883 - 1946)