Reason And Logic Quotes by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Rita Mae Brown, William Butler Yeats, Samuel Butler, Jean de la Bruyere, Moss Hart and many others.
Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.
If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.
People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
Logic is like the sword – those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.
Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.
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.
The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.
Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life’s vast flock of wild irrationalities.
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.
Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.
Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.
Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.
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.
Common sense, however it tries,
cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.
Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.
