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Walter Shandy attributed most of his son’s misfortunes to the fact that at a highly critical moment his wife had asked him if he had wound the clock, a question so irrelevant that he despaired of the child’s ever being able top purpose a logical train of thought.
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and they do the least work.
It was saying of the ancients, that “truth lies in a well” and to carry on the metaphor, we may justly say, that logic supplies us with steps whereby we may go down to reach the water.
Logic is the science of the laws of thought as thought, that is, of the necessary conditions to which thought, in itself considered, is subject.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise man.
Logic is a large drawer, containing some needful 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.
Logic and rhetoric make men able to contend. Logic differeth from rhetoric as the fist from the palm; the one close, the other at large.
Ethics make one’s soul mannerly and wise, but logic is the armory of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons.
Logic works; metaphysics contemplates.
Syllogism is of necessary use, even to the lovers of truth, to show them the fallacies that are often concealed in florid, witty, or involved discourses.
Logic is the art of convincing us of some truth.
He was in Logic, a great critic,
Profoundly skill’d in Analytic;
He could distinguish and divide
A hair twixt south and south west side.
Laurence Sterne (1713-1768) English author.
Logic and metaphysics make use of more tools than all the rest of the sciences put together, and they do the least work.
Colton.
It was saying of the ancients, that “truth lies in a well” and to carry on the metaphor, we may justly say, that logic supplies us with steps whereby we may go down to reach the water.
Watts.
Logic is the science of the laws of thought as thought, that is, of the necessary conditions to which thought, in itself considered, is subject.
Sir W.Hamilton.
Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise man.
Thomas H.Huxley.
Logic is a large drawer, containing some needful 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.
Colton.
Logic and rhetoric make men able to contend. Logic differeth from rhetoric as the fist from the palm; the one close, the other at large.
Bacon.
Ethics make one’s soul mannerly and wise, but logic is the armory of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons.
Fuller.
Logic works; metaphysics contemplates.
Joubert.
Syllogism is of necessary use, even to the lovers of truth, to show them the fallacies that are often concealed in florid, witty, or involved discourses.
Locke.
Logic is the art of convincing us of some truth.
Bruyere.
He was in Logic, a great critic,
Profoundly skill’d in Analytic;
He could distinguish and divide
A hair twixt south and south west side.
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