#Logic Quotes

“Why should we rise because 'tis light? Did we lie down because t'was night?”

“Every why hath a wherefore.”

“For to define true madness,What is't but to be nothing else but mad?”

“Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.”

“If you will not lend me the money, how can I pay you?”

“Though this be madness, yet there is method in't.”

“If you follow the ways in which you were trained, which you may have inherited, for no other reason than this, you are illogical.”

“I pass with relief from the tossing sea of Cause and Theory to the firm ground of Result and Fact.”

“Sir, we must beware of needless innovation, especially when guided by logic.”

“The element of the unexpected and the unforeseeable is what gives some of its relish to life and saves us from falling into the mechanical thralldom of the logicians.”

“Logic won't change an emotion but action will.”

“All this contains much that is obviously true, and much that is relevant; unfortunately, what is obviously true is not relevant, and what is relevant is not obviously true.”

“Who finds the heifer dead and bleeding fresh And sees fast-by a butcher with an axe, But will suspect 'twas he that made the slaughter?”

“Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.”

“Numbers serve to discipline rhetoric. Without them it is too easy to follow flights of fancy, to ignore the world as it is and to remold it nearer the heart's desire.”

“The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.”

“50% of all married people are women”

“Cut my pie into four pieces, I don’t think I could eat eight.”

“Ninety percent of all mental errors are in your head.”

“You better cut the pizza in four pieces because I'm not hungry enough to eat six.”

“Pitching always beats batting — and vice-versa.”

“Cut that pizza into six slices instead of eight, I ain't that hungry.”

“80 percent of the balls that don't reach the hole, don't go in.”

“A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.”

“If I didn't wake up I'd still be sleeping”

“Ninety percent of putts that are short, don't go in.”

“You wouldn't have won if we'd beaten you.”

“If the fans don’t wanna come out to the ballpark, no one can stop ‘em.”

“If the people don't want to come out to the ballpark, nobody's going to stop them.”

“I knew I was going to take the wrong train, so I left early.”

“Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception.”

“It was my first meeting with a philosophy that confirmed my vague speculations and seemed at once logical and boundless.”

“Instinct leads, logic does but follow.”

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

“But it is the bane of psychology to suppose that where results are similar, processes must be the same. Psychologists are too apt to reason as geometers would, if the latter were to say that the diameter of a circle is the same thing as its semi-circumference, because, forsooth, they terminate in the same two points.”

“Though logic-choppers rule the town,And every man and maid and boyHas marked a distant object down,An aimless joy is a pure joy.”

“Our ideas must agree with realities, be such realities concrete or abstract”

“We [may] answer the question: "Why is snow white?" by saying, "For the same reason that soap-suds or whipped eggs are white"-in other words, instead of giving the reason for a fact, we give another example of the same fact. This offering a similar instance, instead of a reason, has often been criticised as one of the forms of logical depravity in men. But manifestly it is not a perverse act of thought, but only an incomplete one. Furnishing parallel cases is the necessary first step towards abstracting the reason imbedded in them all.”

“The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.”

“... A rule of thinking which would absolutely prevent me from acknowledging certain kinds of truth if those ... truths were really there, would be an irrational rule.”

“You're neither right nor wrong because other people agree with you. You're right because your facts are right and your reasoning is right - that's the only thing that makes you right. And if your facts and reasoning are right, you don't have to worry about anybody else.”

“If you wish to converse with me, define your terms.”

“The mind which is most capable of receiving impressions is very often the least capable of drawing conclusions.”

“The right to use a thing comprehends a right to the means necessary to its use, and without which it would be useless.”

“Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.”

“If pigs had wings, they would be pigeons.”

“Before anything can be reasoned upon to a conclusion, certain facts, principles, or data, to reason from, must be established, admitted, or denied.”

“To say that being non-judgmental is better than being judgmental is itself a judgment, and therefore a violation of principle.”

“Common sense will tell us, thatthe power which hath endeavoured to subdue us, is of all others, themost improper to defend us.”

“Loving is almost a substitute for thinking. Love is a burning forgetfulness of all other things. How shall we ask passion to be logical?”