Quotes about Logic

Reason also is choice.

The Christian preacher has nothing to hide. The Devil is in the business of hiding. The preacher reveals. The Devil obscures. The preacher clarifies. The Devil dulls the mind and heart. The preacher shines and burns. He is ashamed of nothing in his message. And this has everything to do with logic and right reason.

Epistemology models ontology.

I told him that I thought it was law logic -- an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in Courts of justice, but good for nothing anywhere else.

Reason is the enemy of faith.

Men are rather reasoning than reasonable animals, for the most part governed by the impulse of passion.

The laws of thought are also the laws of things: of things in the remotest space and the remotest time.

You can't reason with your heart; it has its own laws, and thumps about things which the intellect scorns.

Man is the reasoning animal. Such is the claim.

I can see nothing," said I, handing it back to my friend. "On the contrary, Watson, you can see everything. You fail, however, to reason from what you see. You are too timid in drawing your inferences.

It was easier to know it than to explain why I know it. If you were asked to prove that two and two made four, you might find some difficulty, and yet you are quite sure of the fact.

The question now was, who was the man, and who was it brought him the coronet? "It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.