LOGIC

Related Subjects: Argument, Consistency, Order, Reason

1. 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
   

2. 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.—C. C. COLTON
   

3. Ethics make one's soul mannerly and wise, but logic is the armory of reason, furnished with all offensive and defensive weapons.—THOMAS FULLER
   

4. Logic is the art of convincing us of some truth.—LA BRUYERE
   

5. A thing may sound so logical you are convinced it must be wrong. The moment a philosophical system becomes too impressive or logically beautiful, I become suspicious.—LIN YUTANG, I Believe
   

6. 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
   

7. Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.—STENDHAL
   

8. It was a 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.—ISAAC WATTS