Quotes
Quotes about Logic
Histories make men wise; poets, witty; the mathematics, subtile; natural philosophy, deep; moral, grave; logic and rhetoric, able to contend.
Of science and logic he chatters,
As fine and as fast as he can;
Though I am no judge of such matters,
I'm sure he's a talented man.
Physiological experiment on animals is justifiable for real investigation, but not for mere damnable and detestable curiosity.
Have you heard of the wonderful one-hoss shay,
That was built in such a logical way
It ran a hundred years to a day?
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.
He knew the precise psychological moment when to say nothing.
A character in Evelyn Waugh's Put Out More Flags said that the difference between prewar and postwar life was that, prewar, if one thing went wrong the day was ruined; postwar, if one thing went right the day would be made. America is a prewar country, psychologically unprepared for one thing to go wrong.
War becomes time, and time logic on buried premises
They are at least logical that say to castigate folly you must first exhibit folly as a castigable thing, and in showing folly you thus cause more folly
The flesh has its own peculiar logic
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment, and especially on their children, than the unlived lives of the parents.
Language is an archeological vehicle... the language we speak is a whole palimpsest of human effort and history.
A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.
No mistake is more common and more fatuous than appealing to logic in cases which are beyond her jurisdiction.
No, no, you're not thinking, you're just being logical.
Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtaxed.
Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.
The much vaunted male logic isn't logical, because they display prejudicesâagainst half the human raceâthat are considered prejudices according to any dictionary definition.
Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reserves and compromises. He hangs on to what he can in his old beliefs even when he is compelled to surrender their logical basis.
During my eighty-seven years, I have witnessed a whole succession of technological revolutions. But none of them has done away with the need for character in the individual or the ability to think.
Even though these technological advances originally sought to control information and bring order to the office, in many instances they have done just the opposite. The electronic office promised to reduce paper work and lessen work loads, but it has, in fact, generated more information that must sill be printed and -even more challenging-be assimilated. Since computers entered office systems, paper utilization has increased six-fold.
To preserve an unclouded capacity for the enjoyment of life is an unusual moral and psychological achievement. Contrary to popular belief, it is not the prerogative of mindlessness, but the exact opposite: It is the reward of self-esteem.
One day in the bluest of summer weather, Sketching under a whispering oak, I heard five bobolinks laughing together, Over some ornithological joke.
Quotes from Mao, Castro, and Che Guevara... are as germane to our highly technological, computerized society as a stagecoach on a jet runway at Kennedy airport.
Feast of Aelred of Hexham, Abbot of Rievaulx, 1167 Commemoration of Benedict Biscop, Abbot of Wearmouth, Scholar, 689 "The clergy," says Canon Rhymes, "are called to give to the laity the benefit of their theological understanding and so help them to account for and understand the faith which is in them." But surely there is no point in trying to account for faith: the moment it is accounted for rationally, it is no longer faith. Those whose hearts are filled with the Christian spirit... are best left to proclaim the Gospel in their own words and, above all, through the example of their own lives.
