Reason And Logic Quotes

You cannot approach people who think differently with reason and logic if they don't know what that means. First, you have to appeal to their values to start with. If you attack them, you lose them.

If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

Metaphysics may be, after all, only the art of being sure of something that is not so and logic only the art of going wrong with confidence.

The mind has its own logic but does not often let others in on it.

A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail.

Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss up.

Your Saying "God is Most Great" does not mean that He is greater than something else, since there is nothing else alongside of Him, so that it could be said that He is greater than it. Rather, the meaning of Allahu Akbar is that He is much too great to be perceived by the senses or for the depths of His Majesty to be reached by reason and logic, and indeed, that He is much too great to be known by an other-than-Him for truly, no one knows God but God.

No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

Far more quickly than reason and logic, irony can penetrate rage and puncture self-pity.

The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

He is a true fugitive who flies from reason.

Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

Religion is an important institution. A nation without religion cannot survive. Yet it is also very important to note that religion is a link between Allah and the individual believer. The brokerage of the pious cannot be permitted. Those who use religion for their own benefit are detestable. We are against such a situation and will not allow it. Those who use religion in such a manner have fooled our people; it is against just such people that we have fought and will continue to fight. Know that whatever conforms to reason, logic, and the advantages and needs of our people conforms equally to Islam. If our religion did not conform to reason and logic, it would not be the perfect religion, the final religion.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. The basic of logic is the syllogism, consisting of a major and a minor premise and a conclusion - thus: Major Premise: Sixty men can do a piece of work sixty times as quickly as one man. Minor Premise: One man can dig a post-hole in sixty seconds; Therefore- Conclusion: Sixty men can dig a post-hole in one second. This may be called syllogism arithmetical, in which, by combining logic and mathematics, we obtain a double certainty and are twice blessed.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California.

Reason means truth and those who are not governed by it take the chance that someday the sunken fact will rip the bottom out of their boat.

He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged.

Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

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.

I used to believe in God. The Christian one, that is (There are a few thousand to choose from. But I was born in a country where the dominant religion was Christianity so I believed in that one. Isn't it weird how that always happens?). Luckily I was also interested in science and nature. And reason and logic. And honesty and truth. And equality and fairness. By the age of eight I was an atheist.

Science is simply common sense at its best.

Science is simply common sense at its best, that is, rigidly accurate in observation, and merciless to fallacy in logic.

There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come by mere academic argument and appeal to reason and logic. Discipline is learnt in the school of adversity.