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  • 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.

    Rip   Mean   Intelligence  
  • Logic is one thing and commonsense another.

    Math   Logic   Reasoning  
    Elbert Hubbard (1911). “A Thousand & One Epigrams: Selected from the Writings of Elbert Hubbard”
  • Common sense, however it tries, cannot avoid being surprised from time to time.

  • Reason: The arithmetic of the emotions.

    Emotion   Logic   Reason  
    Elbert Hubbard, Bert Hubbard (1923). “Selected writings of Elbert Hubbard: his mintage of wisdom, coined from a life of love, laughter and work”
  • The vast majority of human beings are not interested in reason or satisfied with what it teaches.

    Majority   Logic   Reason  
    Aldous Huxley (1932). “Rotunda: a selection from the works of Aldous Huxley”
  • 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.

    "Kemalism, Laicism and Democracy". Book by Ahmet Taner Kışlalı, 1994.
  • Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effect when taken in too large quantities.

    Taken   Math   Statistics  
    "My Ireland". Book by Lord Dunsany (Chapter XIX: Weeds and Moss), 1937.
  • People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.

    "Wisdom for the Soul: Five Millennia of Prescriptions for Spiritual Healing". Book by Larry Chang, p. 417, 2006.
  • Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

    James Harvey Robinson (1939). “The Mind in the Making”
  • If you apply reason and logic to this career of mine, you're not going to get very far. You simply won't.

    Careers   Logic   Reason  
  • 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.

    Wise   Math   Men  
    Charles Caleb Colton (1836). “Lacon: Or, Many Things in Few Words, Addressed to Those who Think”, p.163
  • 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.

    Art   Science   May  
    Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”
  • No, no, you're not thinking; you're just being logical.

    Attributed to Niels Bohr in William Glen "The Mass-Extinction Debates: How Science Works in a Crisis" (p. 62), 1994.
  • Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit.

    Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”
  • The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

  • 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.

    "Repeat offender: New Humanist interviews Ricky Gervais". New Humanist interview, newhumanist.org.uk. September 5, 2011.
  • Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

    Samuel Butler (2015). “Delphi Complete Works of Samuel Butler (Illustrated)”, p.4351, Delphi Classics
  • Science is simply common sense at its best.

    Thomas Henry Huxley (1902). “An Introduction to the Study of Zoology, Illustrated by the Crayfish”
  • 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.

    Mean   Thinking   People  
  • He that cannot reason is a fool. He that will not is a bigot. He that dare not is a slave.

    Andrew Carnegie (2015). “The Autobiography of Andrew Carnegie”, p.69, Sheba Blake Publishing
  • 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.

    Through the Looking-Glass ch. 4 (1872)
  • 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.

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

    Maxims for a Modern Man 2194
  • You can only find truth with logic if you have already found truth without it.

    Spiritual   Witty   Truth  
    Daily News, February 25, 1905.
  • The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it.

  • Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

    Confidence   Art   Math  
    Joseph Wood Krutch (1956). “The Modern Temper”
  • 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.

    School   Adversity   Iron  
    Mahatma Gandhi (1965). “Glorious Thoughts of Gandhi: Being a Treasury of about Ten Thousand Valuable and Inspiring Thougths of Mahatma Gandhi, Classified Under Four Hundred Subjects”
  • If you follow reason far enough it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason.

    Logic   Reason   Enough  
    Samuel Butler (1970). “A critical and annotated edition of Samuel Butler's Erewhon”
  • If the world were a logical place, men would ride side saddle.

    Sexy   Memorable   Math  
    "Sudden Death". Book by Rita Mae Brown, 1983.
  • Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

    Math   Logic   Reason  
    Euripides (2013). “Euripides V: Bacchae, Iphigenia in Aulis, The Cyclops, Rhesus”, p.142, University of Chicago Press
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