L Quotes
Browse famous quotes beginning with L. This page is a child index of the full Popular Quotes A-Z directory.
“Logic is a poor model of cause and effect.”
“Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.”
“Logic is a tool, and knowing when, where, and with what inputs towards what end is outside its ability.”
Source: sciVive
“Logic is a very beautiful thing. As long as it is not abused.”
“Logic is a wonderful invention. It is so wonderful, people often mistake it for reason. Reason, however, requires sense. Logic requires only consistency.”
Source: Sweet, Savage Death
“Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.”
Source: The Last Continent: A Discworld Novel
“Logic is actually a limited level of thinking.”
“Logic is always defeated by itself, that is to say, by the insignificance of the
cases on which it thrives.’
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“Logic is an excellent weapon when employed correctly.”
Source: If Only
“Logic is an old subject, and since 1879 it has been a great one.”
“Logic is an organized way to go wrong with confidence. We should all know by now that a logical course is not always the right one.”
“Logic is cheap, however some people are broke.”
“Logic is essentially a tool for getting at truth; it is the tool, for without it no reasoning is possible in any field of human enquiry whatsoever.”
Source: The Old New Logic: Essays on the Philosophy of Fred Sommers
“Logic is good for playing chess but is often too slow for the needs of survival.”
“Logic is immaturity weaving its nets of gossamer wherewith it aims to catch the behemoth of knowledge. Logic is a crutch for the cripple, but a burden for the swift of foot and a greater burden still for the wise.”
“Logic is in the eye of the logician.”
Source: Outrageous acts and everyday rebellions
“Logic is invincible, because in order to combat logic it is necessary to use logic.”
“Logic is just your perception.”
“Logic is justly considered the basis of all other sciences, even if only for the reason that in every argument we employ concepts taken from the field of logic, and that ever correct inference proceeds in accordance with its laws.”
“Logic is like a mouse. It can cut through anything. Ganesha is the Lord of inward logic (Vitarka). Seekers on the path of knowledge must use the mouse to cut through their own illusion (like sages) instead of trying to cut through the universe (like western scientists).”
“Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)
“Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.”
“Logic is no doubt unshakable, but it can't withstand a person who wants to live.”
Source: The Trial
“Logic is not a body of doctrine, but a mirror-image of the world. Logic is transcendental.”
Source: Tractatus Logico Philosophicus
“Logic is not a sure enough defense against moral bankruptcy.”
“Logic is not only an exact science, but is the most simple and elementary of all sciences; it ought therefore undoubtedly to find some place in every course of education.”
Source: Elementary Lessons in Logic: Deductive and Inductive : with Copious Questions and Examples and a Vocabulary of Logical Terms
“Logic is not satisfied with assertion. It cares nothing for the opinions of the great; nothing for the prejudices of the many, and least of all for the superstitions of the dead.”
Source: The Works of Robert G. Ingersoll
“Logic is not the end of the story as that single realization is logic’s greatest gift and ultimate accomplishment.”
“Logic is one thing and commonsense another.”
Source: A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard
“Logic is one thing, the human animal another. You can quite easily propose a logical solution to something and at the same time hope in your heart of hearts it won't work out.”
Source: To clothe the naked: and two other plays
“Logic is present in both the master and the fool.
Logic to the fool is:
"If I attack the neighbor, I get his food and his house and his wife."
Logic to the master is:
"If I build 8,000 houses, it will solve the problem of all the fools attacking their neighbors and stealing their wives!"
The moral of the story is: be careful what you make sense of. Something will always make total sense, to the person making sense of it.”
“Logic is rare!
What's the purpose of it and even studying math getting higher results and after all outside nobody uses it?”
“Logic is something the mind has created to conceal its timidity, a hocus-pocus designed to give formal validity to conclusions we are willing to accept if everybody else in our set will too.”
“Logic is the anatomy of thought.”
“Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.”
“Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.”
Source: The Modern Temper
“Logic is the art of making truth prevail.”
“Logic is the art of non-contradictory identification. A contradiction cannot exist. No concept man forms is valid unless he integrates it without contradiction into the total sum of his knowledge. To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one’s thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one’s mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality”
Source: Atlas Shrugged
“Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.”
“Logic is the foundation of the certainty of all the knowledge we acquire.”
“Logic is the hygiene the mathematician practices to keep his ideas healthy and strong.”
“Logic is the key to an all-inclusive spiritual well-being.”
Source: Marlene
“Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically is to be perpetually astonished.”
Source: Critical Prose and Letters
“Logic is the kingdom of the unexpected. To think logically means to be continually amazed.”
“Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.”
Source: The Unity of Science
“Logic is the most invaluable subject known to mankind.”
“Logic is the procession or proportionate unfolding of the intuition; but its virtue is as silent method; the moment it would appear as propositions, and have a separate value, it is worthless.”
Source: Essays and Lectures
“Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual things", i.e., of the development of the entire concrete content of the world and of its cognition, i.e., the sum-total, the conclusion of the History of knowledge of the world.”
“Logic is the science of the justification of conclusions we have reached by natural reasoning. My point is that, for such natural reasoning to occur, consciousness is not necessary. The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.”
Source: The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind
“Logic is the science of the laws of thought, as thought,--that is of the necessary conditions to which thought considered in itself is a subject.”