Logic Quotes

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

Samuel Butler

Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally, he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.

Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky

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.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.

Andre Gide

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.

Luigi Pirandello

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it.

Rabindranath Tagore

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

A. N. Wilson