Instinct leads, logic does but follow.
Implication is thus the very texture of our web of belief, and logic is the theory that traces it.
Multiculturalism, if its logic is fully played out, is the ideology of national suicide.
Business logic and musical logic are utterly incompatible.
Nothing is so deceptive as human reasoning, - nothing so slippery and reversible as what we have decided to call 'logic. ' The truest compass of life is spiritual instinct.
Character cannot be counterfeited, nor can it be put on and cast off as if it were a garment to fit the whim of the moment. Day by day we become what we do. This is the supreme law and logic of life.
Any useful logic must concern itself with Ideas with a fringe of vagueness and a Truth that is a matter of degree.
Truth is without flourishes or manners and runs with a logic all its own.
Reason is the shepherd trying to corral life's vast flock of wild irrationalities.
Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end.
Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.
China has consistently surprised us. When I returned from the United States many years ago, it was unimaginable that we would end up where we are now. What China has achieved defies all logic. I credit this to the hard work and enterprising spirit of the Chinese people.
In elementary school, in case of fire you have to line up quietly in a single file line from smallest to tallest. What is the logic? Do tall people burn slower?
Logic is to grammar what the sense of words is to their sound.
Man has such a predilection for systems and abstract deductions that he is ready to distort the truth intentionally he is ready to deny the evidence of his senses only to justify his logic.
The picture which the philosopher draws of the world is surely not one in which every stroke is necessitated by pure logic.
It is possible--indeed possible even according to the old conception of logic--to give in advance a description of all 'true' logical propositions. Hence there can never be surprises in logic.
. . . simple logic tells you that if somebody wants you dead you have one course of action: To get them deader sooner.
If you can't convince them [with your logic] then just confound them [with your wit. ]
Life teaches us that human thought almost never walks hand in hand with logic, and it is usually counterproductive to raise the point.