Logic Quotes

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

  Dale Carnegie

  Relationship, Emotional, Remember You

  Dale Carnegie (2017). “The Quick and Easy Way to Effective Speaking”, p.161, Diamond Pocket Books Pvt Ltd

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

  Albert Einstein

  Inspirational, Success, Graduation

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• When intuition and logic agree, you are always right.

  Blaise Pascal

  Math, Intuition, Agree

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• 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

  Thinking, Doubt, Desire

  Alfred Tarski (2013). “Introduction to Logic: and to the Methodology of Deductive Sciences”, p.109, Courier Corporation

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• Knowledge is a continuous fabric, in which ideas are connected to other ideas. Reason-free zones, in which people can assert arbitrary beliefs safe from ordinary standards of evaluation, can only corrupt this fabric, just as a contradiction can corrupt a system of logic, allowing falsehoods to proliferate through it.

  Steven Pinker

  Ideas, People, Ordinary

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

  Rabindranath Tagore

  Inspirational, Hands, Knives

  Rabindranath Tagore, Mohit Kumar Ray (2007). “Poems”, p.418, Atlantic Publishers & Dist

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

  Charles Lindbergh

  Love, Relationship, Intuition

  Charles A. Lindbergh (1992). “Autobiography of Values”, Harcourt

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

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Math, Reality

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (1984). “Notebooks, 1914-1916”, p.26, University of Chicago Press

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• Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Funny, Sarcastic, Art

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.2450, Delphi Classics

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• Human beings are not creatures of logic; we are creatures of emotion. And we do not care what's true. We care how it feels.

  Will Smith

  Care, Emotion, Feels

  Source: www.esquire.com

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• Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.

  Leonard Nimoy

  Inspirational, Insightful, Inspired

  "Fictional character: Captain Spock". "Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country", www.imdb.com. 1991.

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• Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.

  Hermann Weyl

  Strong, Math, Practice

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• Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Math, Technique, Add

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

  Marian Anderson

  Happiness, Inspiring, Success

  Marian Anderson (1956). “My Lord, what a Morning: An Autobiography”, p.241, University of Illinois Press

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• Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

  Charles Sanders Peirce

  Foundation, Facts, Sides

  Charles Sanders Peirce, Morris Raphael Cohen, John Dewey (1968). “Chance, love, and logic philosophical essays”, p.28, Charles Sander Peirce

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

  Isaac Watts

  Judging, Helping, Disguise

  Isaac Watts (1809). “Logic: Or, The Right Use of Reason, in the Inquiry After Truth”, p.7

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

  Lord Dunsany

  Taken, Math, Statistics

  "My Ireland". Book by Lord Dunsany (Chapter XIX: Weeds and Moss), 1937.

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• Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.

  Luigi Pirandello

  Heart, Animal, Work Out

  Luigi Pirandello (1962). “To clothe the naked: and two other plays”

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• Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.

  Ludwig Wittgenstein

  Philosophical, Reality, Mirrors

  Ludwig Wittgenstein (2016). “Tractatus Logico Philosophicus”, p.28, Clube de Autores

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• Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Math, Reasoning, One Thing

  Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”

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• Human beings lose their logic in their vindictiveness.

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton

  Humans, Human Beings, Loses

  Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Harriot (Stanton). Blatch (Mrs) (1922). “Elizabeth Cady Stanton as revealed in her letters, diary and reminiscences”

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

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Spiritual, Witty, Truth

  Daily News, February 25, 1905.

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• Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

  Antoine de Saint-Exupery

  Math, Religion, Democracy

  Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”

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• The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.

  Douglas Adams

  Atheist, Faith Religion, Atheism

  Douglas Adams (2012). “The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: The Trilogy of Five”, p.47, Pan Macmillan

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• This means that no single logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge.

  Jean Piaget

  Strong, Mean, Support

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