Reason And Logic Quotes

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

  Andrew Carnegie

  Funny, Wisdom, Intelligence

  Andrew Carnegie (2015). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.69, Sheba Blake Publishing

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• 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

  Mistake, Math, Men

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• Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

  Samuel Butler

  Logic, Appeals

  Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4351, Delphi Classics

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• Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

  James Harvey Robinson

  Wisdom, Believe, Intellectual

  James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”

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

  Bertrand Russell

  Common Sense, Trying, Logic

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• Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

  Thomas Huxley

  Science, Common Sense, Logic

  Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish”

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• You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.

  Jacque Fresco

  Mean, Thinking, People

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• Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

  Euripides

  Math, Logic, Reason

  Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.142, University of Chicago Press

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• Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Emotion, Logic, Reason

  Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”

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• He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

  Marcus Aurelius

  Logic, Reason, Fugitive

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

  Jean de la Bruyere

  Wise, Men, Trying

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• The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

  Blaise Pascal

  History, Lasts, Infinity

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

  A. N. Wilson

  Math, Insatiable Hunger, Awakening

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• Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

  Joseph Wood Krutch

  Confidence, Art, Math

  Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”

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

  Samuel Butler

  Logic, Reason, Enough

  Samuel Butler (1970). “A critical and annotated edition of Samuel Butler's Erewhon”

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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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• From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Math, Water, Logic

  Arthur Conan Doyle (2007). “The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes: The Complete Short Stories: The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes and The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes (Non-slipcased Edition) (Vol. 1) (The Annotated Books)”, p.151, W. W. Norton & Company

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• 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, Jr.

  Rip, Mean, Intelligence

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• Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

  Paul Eldridge

  Trying, Shepherds, Logic

  Maxims for a Modern Man 2194

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• People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

  William Butler Yeats

  Wisdom, Philosophy, People

  "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 417, 2006.

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• Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Math, Logic, Reasoning

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

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

  Aldous Huxley

  Majority, Logic, Reason

  Aldous Huxley (1932). “Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley”

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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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• Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Wise, Math, Men

  Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.163

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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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