Art Quote by William James

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

— Anonymous

Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human mind; Reason, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.

— Oliver Goldsmith

“Most of us, in our civilized society, rely too heavily on reasoning capacity to make things happen. We've been raised to believe that logic…

— Herb Cohen

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

“The logical feebleness of science is not sufficiently borne in mind. It keeps down the weed of superstition, not by logic but by slowly…

— John Tyndall

Trying to understand the way nature works involves a most terrible test of human reasoning ability. It involves subtle trickery, beautiful tightropes of logic…

— Richard P. Feynman

Logic helps us to strip off the outward disguise of things, and to behold and judge of them in their own nature.

— Isaac Watts

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

— Ludwig Wittgenstein

Among the enduring truths I keep bumping into when there is the luxury of time to get to know people or institutions, is that…

— Ken Auletta

“Logic is the science not of external forms of thought, but of the laws of development "of all material, natural and spiritual things", i.e.,…

— Vladimir Ilyich Lenin

He who made us would have been a pitiful bungler, if he had made the rules of our moral conduct a matter of science.…

— Thomas Jefferson

Why should ANYTHING go right; even observation and deduction? Why should not good logic be as misleading as bad logic? They are both movements…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton