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When a philosopher says something that is true then it is trivial. When he says something that is not trivial then it is false.

— Carl Friedrich Gauss

As if reasoning were any kind of writing or talking which tends to convince people that some doctrine or measure is true and right.

— Catharine Beecher

As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity…

— C. D. Broad

“In real-life situations apparently logical lines of argument are often (not always) based on an inability to see alternative possibilities. In a similar way…

— Edward De Bono

You know, I've taught philosophy for years and one argues in the hypothetical all the time.

— Bill Bennett

We do not learn by inference and deduction and the application of mathematics to philosophy, but by direct intercourse and sympathy.

— Richard M. Nixon

Simple statements are to be prized more highly than less simple ones because they tell us more; because their empirical content is greater; and…

— Karl Popper

Simple is the language of truth.

— Seneca the Younger

True brevity of expression consists in a man only saying what is worth saying, while avoiding all diffuse explanations of things which every one…

— Arthur Schopenhauer

I dare say that I have worked off my fundamental formula on you that the chief end of man is to frame general propositions…

— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr

Everyone is just too simple to understand logic.

— Momo Tsure

“it does not mean that we can substitute theoretical reasoning for justified lament.”

— Kelly M Kapic