Favorite Quotations ~  Logic A Continual Feast: Words of Comfort and Celebration, Collected by Father Tim

"Logic might be unanswerable because it was so absolutely wrong." ~ D. H. Lawrence

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The Greeks invented logic but were not fooled by it. ~ Eric Hoffer

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say? ~ E. M. Forster

Logic is like the sword those who appeal to it, shall perish by it. ~ Samuel Butler

Logic is a feeble reed, friend. Logic proved that airplanes can't fly and that H bombs won't work and that stones don't fall out of the sky. Logic is a way of saying that anything that didn't happen yesterday won't happen tomorrow. ~ Robert Heinlein

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it. ~ Rabindranath Tagore

Contrariwise, continued Tweedledee, If it was so, it might be; and if it were so, it would be; but as it isn't, it ain't. That's logic. ~ Lewis Carroll

If the world were a logical place men would ride side-saddle. ~ Rita Mae Brown

If we were logical, the future would be bleak indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope. ~ Jacques Cousteau

Logic and over analysis can immobilize and sterilize an idea. It's like love the more you analyze it the faster it disappears. ~ William Bernbach

Logic is in the eye of the logician. ~ Gloria Steinem

In the main, and from the beginning of time, mysticism has kept men sane. The thing that has driven them mad was logic. ~ G.K. Chesterton