Logic
16 quotes.
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Logic is the anatomy of thought.
John Locke
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Contrariwise, if it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic.
Lewis Carroll
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When you have eliminated the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Arthur Conan Doyle
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Fantasy, abandoned by reason, produces impossible monsters; united with it, she is the mother of the arts and the origin of marvels.
Goya
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For every complex problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.
H. L. Mencken
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It's always easy to see both sides of an issue we are not particularly concerned about.
Anonymous
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Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
Manly's Maxim
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Logic is in the eye of the logician.
Gloria Steinen
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Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.
Ambrose Bierce, "The Devil's Dictionary"
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Man is a rational animal who always loses his temper when he is called upon to act in accordance with the dictates of reason.
Oscar Wilde
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No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.
Niels Bohr
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Only a brave person is willing to honestly admit, and fearlessly to face, what a sincere and logical mind discovers.
Rodan of Alexandria
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The Army has carried the American ... ideal to its logical conclusion. Not only do they prohibit discrimination on the grounds of race, creed and color, but also on ability.
Tom Lehrer
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The decision doesn't have to be logical, it was unanimous.
Anonymous
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The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable man persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore all progress depends on the unreasonable man.
George Bernard Shaw
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When I come upon anything--in Logic or in any other hard subject--that entirely puzzles me, I find it a capital plan to talk it over, aloud, even when I am all alone. One can explain things so clearly to one's self!
Lewis Carroll