Thursday, 7 March 2013

Logic - Quotes

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. - Rabindranath Tagore Contrariwise ... if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. - Lewis Carroll

Fear is the enemy of logic. - Frank Sinatra

I am convinced that the act of thinking logically cannot possibly be natural to the human mind. If it were, then mathematics would be everybody's easiest course at school and our species would not have taken several millennia to figure out the scientific method. - Neil DeGrasse Tyson

It's a fool that looks for logic in the chambers of the human heart. - Joel Coen

Logic cripples and constrains; it forces one into narrow and mechanical modes of thought that cut one off from a vast range of superior thoughts, feelings and perceptions. - John M. Dolan

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature. - I. Watts

Logic helps you learn how to be precise and rigorous in any area of study. - Greg Restall

Logic is essentially a tool for getting at truth; it is the tool, for without it no reasoning is possible in any field of human enquiry whatsoever. - David S. Oderberg

Logic is the anatomy of thought. - John Locke
Logic is the art of thinking well; the mind, like the body, requires to be trained before it can use its powers in the most advantageous way. - Isaac Taylor

Logic may be conceived as ruling out what is absolutely impossible, and thus determining the field of what in the absence of empirical knowledge is abstractly possible. - Morris F. Cohen

No matter what your logic is, if it is coherent, you can develop a technique to express it. - Bernard J. F. Lonergan

So, though most of us can reason without a formal training in logic, study of logic is needed at least to learn how to discern correct reasoning from incorrect reasoning. - Chhanda Chakraborti

Some may study side by side, and yet be asunder when they come to the logic of things. - Confucius

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. - Thomas Babington MacAulay

The man who has faith in logic is always cuckolded by reality. - Alexander

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. - Alfred Tarski

There is no such thing as magic, supernatural, miracle; only something that's still beyond logic of the observer. - Toba Beta

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