Logic Quotes

“All bad arguments are one of three types: The Straw Man, The Weak Man, and The Hollow Man.”

“Logic has made me hated in the world.”

“Reason is the technique of choice.”

“On two occasions I have been asked, 'Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out?' I am not able to rightly apprehend the kind of confusion of ideas that could provoke such a question.”

“You throw the ball to first base, somebody's gotta catch it. Now, Who is on first.”

“Against logic there is no armor like ignorance.”

“To be interested in food but not in food production is clearly absurd.”

“Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.”

“For in the long run, either explicitly or implicitly, logic rests upon metaphysics, and metaphysics rests upon a theory of knowledge.”

“Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.”

“Avoid the 'everybody does it' argument. It is a form of moral and intellectual laziness.”

“Numbers have a way of taking a man by the hand and leading him down the path of reason.”

“What is a dogma, if not a religious idea, expressed in a logical form, and fixed in this form?”

“The validity of the processes of analysis does not depend upon the interpretation of the symbols which are employed, but solely upon the laws of their combination.”

“The shortest distance between two points is a straight line.”

“You cannot prove a negative.”

“Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.”

“You can't be a little bit pregnant.”

“It is not the task of the logician to decide whether our world is the only one possible.”

“Every advocate of a democratic government of a state is logically bound to support the democratic process in the government of that state.”