Logic

(165 votes)   Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

William E. Gladstone
1809-1888, British Liberal Prime Minister, Statesman

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(270 votes)   Reason can wrestle and overthrow terror.

Euripides
BC 480-406, Greek Tragic Poet

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(231 votes)   Logic is a poor guide compared with custom.

Winston Churchill
1874-1965, British Statesman, Prime Minister

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(200 votes)   Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Joseph Joubert
1754-1824, French Moralist

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(179 votes)   Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish! How can I tell what I think till I see what I say?

Edward M. Forster
1879-1970, British Novelist, Essayist

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(164 votes)   Reason also is choice.

John Milton
1608-1674, British Poet

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(148 votes)   The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.

A. N. Wilson

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(147 votes)   From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other.

Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
1859-1930, British Author, ''Sherlock Holmes''

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(143 votes)   Logic is the anatomy of thought.

John Locke
1632-1704, British Philosopher

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