We are most often inspired and motivated by fallacy rather than logic. — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
Advocacy groups like Families U.S.A. imagine that once Medicaid becomes a middle-class entitlement, political pressure from middle-class workers will force politicians to… — Scott Gottlieb Copy Share Image
There are three sides to every argument. Yours. The other guy's. And the right side. — Mordecai Richler Copy Share Image
You can't. Do you hear me? You think you've figured something out? You run over here so pleased with yourself because you… — David Auburn Copy Share Image
The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The totality of our so-called knowledge or beliefs, from the most casual matters of geography and history to the profoundest laws of… — Willard Van Orman Quine Copy Share Image
A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail. — Jean de la Bruyere Copy Share Image
It is difficult to remove by logic an idea not placed there by logic in the first place. — Gordon Livingston Copy Share Image
Their own kind of logic which cries for miracles and, on occasion,... — Jean Giraudoux Copy Share Image
I've never seen impeccable logic be sufficient to win both the heart and the mind. — Scott D. Anthony Copy Share Image
How dreadful knowledge of the truth can be when there's no help in truth! — Sophocles Copy Share Image
“There is nothing distinctively scientific about the hypothetico-deductive process. It is not even distinctively intellectual. It is merely a scientific context for… — Peter B. Medawar Copy Share Image
I was a pedantic child. I'd get really annoyed at the logic of small things that don't bother anyone else. — Peter Baynham Copy Share Image
“We're surrounded by people who don’t make that distinction. If you say to them ‘there’s a monster living in my closet, you… — Seth Mcfarlane Copy Share Image
If two things don't fit, but you believe both of them, thinking that somewhere, hidden, there must be a third thing that… — Umberto Eco Copy Share Image
[Aristotle formal logic thus far (1787)] has not been able to advance a single step, and hence is to all appearances closed… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
Some mathematician, I believe, has said that true pleasure lies not in the discovery of truth, but in the search for it. — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
This method of deduction ... is often called "combinatory". Its usefulness is not exhausted at this stage, but it does even at… — John Chadwick Copy Share Image
In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
Was it probably true that reasoning beings were equal? It seemed more like a belief than a fact, even if I agreed… — Rachel Hartman Copy Share Image