Quotes about Logic

The door to safety swings on the hinges of common sense.

A single fact can spoil a good argument.

Give a man a truth and he will think for a day. Show a man to reason and he will think for a lifetime.

Philosophy is a game with objectives and no rules. Mathematics is a game with rules and no objectives.

Logic itself affirms that a loving Heavenly Father would not abandon His children without providing a way for them to learn of Him.

Studying Latin can teach you how to think analytically.

Anything outside yourself, this you can see and apply your logic to it. But it's a human trait that when we encounter personal problems, these things most deeply personal are the most difficult to bring out for our logic to scan. We tend to flounder around, blaming everything but the actual, deep-seated thing that's really chewing on us.

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. —FROM "THE SAYINGS OF MUAD'DIB" BY THE PRINCESS IRULAN

Your projections of logic onto all affairs is unnatural, but suffered to continue for its usefulness.

There is nothing more uncommon than common sense.

Rational beliefs bring us closer to getting good results in the real world.

The language of logical argument, of proofs,is the language of the limited self we know and can manipulate. But the language of parable and poetry, of storytelling,moves from the imprisoned language of the provable into the free language of what I must, for lack of another word, continue to call faith.