Topic
Logic
Quotes
Think clearly, decide better.
Logic is the systematic study of reasoning and argumentation, evaluating the validity and soundness of inferences to distinguish truth from falsehood. It provides the framework for critical thinking, problem-solving, and informed decision-making, empowering humans to navigate complex situations, build reliable knowledge, and effectively communicate with each other, ultimately shaping progress and understanding in every facet of life.
# Logic & Mathematics
U
Context: • Oliver Wendell Holmes (1919), The One-Hoss Shay
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, E-H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, E-H)
“Logic is logic. That's all I say.”
— Unknown
Computer science
Mathematics
Mind
PhilosophyU
Context: • Gloria Steinem (1984) cited in: Robert Byrne (2002) The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
“Logic is in the eye of the logician.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1942), Flight to Arras, as translated by Lewis Galantière
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
“Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Elbert Hubbard (1927), The Note Book
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, E-H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, E-H)
“Logic is one thing and commonsense another.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • John Dewey, distinguishing the styles and focus of Peirce and William James, in The Development of American Pragmatism" in Studies in the History of Ideas'' (1925), Vol. II, p. 361
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
“Pierce wrote as a logician and James as a humanist.”
— Unknown
# Logic & Philosophy
U
Context: • Benjamin Jowett in: Evelyn Abbott, Lewis Campbell (1897) The Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett, M.A., Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Vol 1. p. 131
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, I-L)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, I-L)
“Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Attributed to Niels Bohr in: William Glen (1994) The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis. p. 62
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
“No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Harold Wheeler, How Much Do You Know? A book of fascinating questions and answers on every subject.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Paradox" (Quotes)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Paradox" (Quotes)
“A Paradox is truth spelt with seven letters instead of five”
— Unknown
LogicU
Context: • Rita Mae Brown (1983) Sudden Death.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
“If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Spock, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country (6 December 1991), story by Leonard Nimoy, Lawrence Konner and Mark Rosenthal
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.”
— Unknown
# Logic & Mind
U
Context: • Tom Robbins, Even Cowgirls Get The Blues (1976); spoken by the character "The Chink".
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
“Of course I'm inconsistent! Only logicians and cretins are consistent!”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Woody Allen in his movie Love and Death cited in: Philip Nicholas Johnson-Laird (2006) How We Reason. p. 142
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
“All men are mortal. Socrates was mortal. Therefore, all men are Socrates.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Matthew Hughes, The Spiral Labyrinth (2007), , p. 84
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, E-H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, E-H)
“But in this age, logic was a flame that must be frequently starved of fuel.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Gilbert Keith Chesterton cited in: Quentin Lauer (1992) G. K. Chesterton: Philosopher Without Portfolio. p. 39
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
“You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Murphy's law
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, M-P)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, M-P)
“Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.”
— Unknown
# Logic & Computer science
U
Context: • Edward John Moreton Drax Plunkett, Lord Dunsany (1878–1957), "Weeds & Moss", My Ireland
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, M-P)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, M-P)
“Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Nassim Nicholas Taleb, The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms (2010) Preludes, p.3.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
“An idea starts to be interesting when you get scared of taking it to its logical conclusion.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Raymond F. Jones (1956), The Non-Statistical Man
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, I-L)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, I-L)
“Logic hasn't wholly dispelled the society of witches and prophets and sorcerers and soothsayers.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • G. K. Chesterton (1908) Orthodoxy.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
“The morbid logician seeks to make everything lucid, and succeeds in making everything mysterious.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Sarek in the Star Trek: Discovery episode The Vulcan Hello from September 24, 2017. Story by Bryan Fuller and Alex Kurtzman as well as teleplay by Bryan Fuller and Akiva Goldsman
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
“When emotion brings us ghosts from the past, only logic can root us in the present.”
— Unknown
# Logic & Discourse
U
Context: • Robert Southey, Life of Wesley.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
“Agreed to differ.”
— Unknown
Discourse
Semiotics
StatementsU
Context: • Agreeing to differ.
• Ovid, Metamorphoses. I. 433.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
• Ovid, Metamorphoses. I. 433.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
“Discors concordia.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Ōsugi Sakae, The Chain Factory. Originally published in Kindai Shisō (Modern Thought), vol. 1, no. 12 (Sept. 1913): 2-5. Translated by Adam Goodwin.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (S)
“Arguments don't break chains.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Joseph Addison, Spectator, No. 122.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
“Much might be said on both sides.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act II, scene 1, line 9.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (S)
“For they are yet but ear-kissing arguments.”
— Unknown
More Quotes
U
Context: • Robert Southey, Life of Wesley.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
“Agreed to differ.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Agreeing to differ.
• Ovid, Metamorphoses. I. 433.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
• Ovid, Metamorphoses. I. 433.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
“Discors concordia.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Ōsugi Sakae, The Chain Factory. Originally published in Kindai Shisō (Modern Thought), vol. 1, no. 12 (Sept. 1913): 2-5. Translated by Adam Goodwin.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (S)
“Arguments don't break chains.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Joseph Addison, Spectator, No. 122.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
“Much might be said on both sides.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Oliver Wendell Holmes (1919), The One-Hoss Shay
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, E-H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, E-H)
“Logic is logic. That's all I say.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Gloria Steinem (1984) cited in: Robert Byrne (2002) The 2,548 Best Things Anybody Ever Said
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
“Logic is in the eye of the logician.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1942), Flight to Arras, as translated by Lewis Galantière
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, Q-T)
“Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Elbert Hubbard (1927), The Note Book
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, E-H)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, E-H)
“Logic is one thing and commonsense another.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • William Shakespeare, King Lear (1608), Act II, scene 1, line 9.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (S)
“For they are yet but ear-kissing arguments.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.
• Gorgias Leontinus. Endorsed by Aristotle in his Rhetoric, Book III, Chapter XVIII.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
• Gorgias Leontinus. Endorsed by Aristotle in his Rhetoric, Book III, Chapter XVIII.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
“Seria risu risum, seriis discutere.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • William Shakespeare, Henry V (c. 1599), Act III, scene 1, line 21.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (S)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (S)
“And sheath'd their swords for lack of argument.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Oliver Goldsmith, Retaliation (1774), line 46.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (G)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (G)
“His conduct still right with his argument wrong.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Barry, Four Lions (2010)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
“You can't win an argument by being right, either”
— Unknown
U
Context: • John Dryden, Amphitryon (1690), Act I, scene 1.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (D)
“A knock-down argument; 'tis but a word and a blow.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Ecclesiasticus, XIII. 2.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
“How agree the kettle and the earthen pot together?”
— Unknown
U
Context: • John Dewey, distinguishing the styles and focus of Peirce and William James, in The Development of American Pragmatism" in Studies in the History of Ideas'' (1925), Vol. II, p. 361
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
“Pierce wrote as a logician and James as a humanist.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Benjamin Jowett in: Evelyn Abbott, Lewis Campbell (1897) The Life and Letters of Benjamin Jowett, M.A., Master of Balliol College, Oxford. Vol 1. p. 131
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, I-L)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, I-L)
“Logic is neither a science nor an art, but a dodge.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Attributed to Niels Bohr in: William Glen (1994) The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis. p. 62
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Logic" (Quotes:
Quotes are rearranged alphabetical per author, A-D)
“No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • A pretty hypothesis which explains many things.
• Quoted by Mr. Asquith, Speech in Parliament, March 29, 1917, as "a saying of a witty Frenchman"; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 245.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Explanations" (Quotes)
• Quoted by Mr. Asquith, Speech in Parliament, March 29, 1917, as "a saying of a witty Frenchman"; reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 245.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Explanations" (Quotes)
“Jolie hypothèse elle explique tant de choses.”
— Unknown
U
Context: • Queen Elizabeth I, of Mary Queen of Scots. Sonnet in Percy's Reliques, Volume I, Book V. No. XV. From Puttenham's Arte of English Poesie. London, 1589.
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
• Source: Wikiquote: "Argument" (Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations:
Quotes reported in Hoyt's New Cyclopedia Of Practical Quotations (1922), p. 41-43.)
“The daughter of debate
That still discord doth sow.”
— Unknown
Quote Copied!