Quotes of Logic - somelinesforyou

“ Logic is like the sword: those who appeal to it shall perish by it. ”

- Samuel Butler

“ A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. ”

- Rabindranath Tagore

“ Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked. ”

- Oliver Wendell Holmes

“ Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence. ”

- Joseph Wood Krutch

“ Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. ”

- Laurence J. Peter

“ Deep in the human unconscious is a pervasive need for a logical universe that makes sense. But the real universe is always one step beyond logic. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ Logic is in the eye of the logician. ”

- Gloria Steinem

“ Fear is a disease that eats away at logic and makes man inhuman. ”

- Marian Anderson

“ Logic is a poor guide compared with custom. ”

- Winston Churchill

“ Logic is the anatomy of thought. ”

- John Locke

“ Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ Logic works, metaphysics contemplates. ”

- Joseph Joubert

“ Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? ”

- Edward M. Forster

“ Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities. ”

- Lord Dunsany

“ 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 E. Gladstone

“ One of the best things to come out of the home computer revolution could be the general and widespread understanding of how severely limited logic really is. ”

- Frank Herbert

“ Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. ”

- Antoine de Saint Exupéry

“ Reason itself is fallible, and this fallibility must find a place in our logic. ”

- Nicola Abbagnano

“ Religion is love: in no case is it logic. ”

- Beatrice Potter Webb

“ The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. ”

- A. N. Wilson

“ The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood. ”

- Ludwig Wittgenstein

“ The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it. ”

- Bernard Devoto

“ The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudices — against half the human race — that are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition. ”

- Eva Figes

“ You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it. ”

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

“ Logic will get you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. ”

- Albert Einstein

“ Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge. ”

- Benjamin Jowett

“ To a person in love, the value of the individual is intuitively known. Love needs no logic for its mission. ”

- Charles Lindbergh

“ When dealing with people, remember you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but creatures of emotion. ”

- Dale Carnegie

“ Drama is imagination limited by logic. Mathematics is logic limited by imagination. ”

- Nathan Campbell

“ I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion. ”

- Neil Armstrong
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