“It was a saying of the ancients, "Truth lies in a well;" and to carry on this metaphor, we may justly say that logic does supply us with steps, whereby we may go down to reach the water.” WellsMayDoeLyingWaterStepsLogicMetaphor Author:Isaac Watts
“I am out of step with present conditions. When the game is no longer played your way, it is only human to say the new approach is all wrong, bound to lead to trouble, and so on. On one point, however, I am clear. I will not abandon a previous approach whose logic I understand ( although I find it difficult to apply ) even though it may mean foregoing large, and apparently easy, profits to embrace an approach which I don't fully understand, have not practiced successfully, and which possibly could lead to substantial permanent loss of capital.” WayHumansMayMeanGamesEasyDifficultLossStepsClearTroubleConditionsApproachLogicEmbraceBoundsProfitPermanentAbandonNew Approach Author:Warren Buffett
“Geometry is beautifully logical, and it teaches you how to think and prove that things are so, step by step by step. Proofs are excellent lessons in reasoning. Without logic and reasoning, you are dependent on jumping to conclusions or - worse - having empty opinions.” ThinkingStepsOpinionTeachLessonsProveEmptyLogicProofConclusionExcellentReasoningDependentLogicalJumpingGeometryJumping To Conclusions Author:Marilyn vos Savant
“Rhetoric completes the tools of learning. Dialectic zeros in on the logic of things, of particular systems of thought or subjects. Rhetoric takes the next grand step and brings all these subjects together into one whole.” WholeTogetherNextStepsSubjectsParticularToolsLogicRhetoricDialectics Author:William Blake