Quotes about Logic

Total commitment is about being wise and smart, not necessarily being noble or virtuous. It's not so much about self-denial but about logic and common sense. It's not so much about what you lose; it's about what you gain.

When the hammer of logic and the fire of human zeal fail to open the stony heart, unction will succeed.

Reason is the tool men use to determine if their statements about reality are valid: there is no other. Those who do not or cannot reason are little better than slaves because their lives are controlled by the ideas of other men, ideas they have not examined.

Right reason is stronger than force.

Too often today, we do not rely on faith so much as on our own ability to reason and solve problems.

As arts, grammar and logic are concerned with language in relation to thought and thought in relation to language. That is why skill in both reading and writing is gained through these arts.

we want to know not merely what his propositions are, but also why he thinks we should be persuaded to accept them.

It's just human nature to try and figure things out. So, when we're in the midst of a situation, we usually try to reason our way through it.

Reason is in fact the path to faith, and faith takes over when reason can say no more.

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

Reason is the natural order of truth but imagination is the organ of meaning.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result