Many people have the mistaken idea that logic is a cold and calculating way of learning and thinking, where emotions have no place and that it can only be used by people with higher intelligence or those who are inclined towards mathematics.
But the truth is that logic exists in every aspect of our lives; It occurs when we choose something that suits us, by having good management of emotions or responding assertively to a problem.
In this sense, here you will find a selection of the best phrases about logic commented and explained.
1. By overwhelming logic it is impossible for a man who goes to whores to be faithful.
No person who seeks easy satisfaction respects a commitment.
2. Only in the mysterious equations of love can any logic be found. (Russell Crowe)
Love has its logical clothes.
3. Logic will take you from A to B. Imagination will take you everywhere. (Albert Einstein)
It is necessary to have reasoning, but also to use your imagination.
4. When dealing with people, remember that you are not dealing with creatures of logic, but with creatures of emotion. (Dale Carnegie)
People are emotional by nature.
5. Most of our so-called reasoning consists of finding arguments to continue believing as we already do. (James Harvey Robinson)
Sometimes we use reason to find valid excuses.
6. Anything is possible, unless it isn’t.
There is no truer statement.
7. Logic is the beginning of wisdom, not the end. (Leonard Nimoy)
Logic allows us to see the world as it is.
8. As for logic, its syllogisms serve more to explain to others things already known than to learn. (Rene Descartes)
Using reason as a form of education.
9. Logic, given the misuse that is made of it, is better for stabilizing and perpetuating errors founded on the ground of vulgar ideas than for leading to the discovery of the truth. (Sir Francis Bacon)
When reason is used in the wrong way.
10. We live in a society where lying is routine, betrayal is logical, and fashion is the burka that covers hypocrisy.
A society that makes no sense.
11. The child who has the freedom and opportunity to manipulate and use his hand in a logical way, with consequences and using real elements, develops a strong personality. (Maria Montessori)
Logic is also about using the tools around us.
12. Logic is overrated. (Anonymous)
Not everything can be explained rigidly.
13. The logic of thought must always come to the aid of the insufficiency of knowledge. (Friedrich Engels)
A way to complement knowledge.
14. Logic, like whiskey, loses its beneficial effects when taken in large quantities. (Edward John Moreton)
15. Logic is one thing and common sense another. (Elbert Hubbard)
Do you think this is true?
16. If someone does not value the evidence, what evidence will they provide to show that they should value it? If someone does not value logic, what logical argument could they provide to show the importance of logic? (Sam Harris)
A paradox that keeps going around in circles.
17. While physics and mathematics can tell us how the universe began, they are not very useful in predicting human behavior because there are too many equations to solve. (Stephen Hawking)
Humans are creatures that act by instinct rather than logic.
18. Scientists today have replaced mathematics with experiments, and wander through equation after equation, and finally construct a structure that has no relationship to reality. (Nicholas Tesla)
A criticism of the actions of modern scientists.
19. Logic is the art of making mistakes with confidence. (Joseph Eood Krutch)
To not lose confidence in ourselves when this happens.
20. For those who do not know mathematics, it is difficult to feel the beauty of nature. If you want to appreciate it, you need to learn the language in which it speaks. (Richard Feynman)
Mathematics is everywhere.
21. Selective memory to remember the good, logical prudence to not ruin the present and defiant optimism to face the future. (Jean Shinoda Bolen)
Skills that we must put into practice at all times.
22. My ideas are of indisputable logic; The only thing that makes me doubt is that they have not been applied previously. (Antoni Gaudí)
The importance of having confidence in ourselves.
23. Logic told me that I would never see this place again and that’s what I did, I survived. (Tom Hanks)
Logic speaking to us in critical moments.
24. And cutting the logical moorings, doesn’t it imply the only true possibility of adventure? (Oliverio Girondo)
Putting aside reason to venture. Maybe a little risky?
25. Against logic there is no armor like ignorance. (Laurence J. Peter)
Ignorant people often prefer to stay in that state forever.
26. Fear is the enemy of logic. (Frank Sinatra)
Fear makes us believe false things about ourselves.
27. With logic in the search, the impossible begins to seem difficult. Difficulty diminishes where the impossible is finally done. (Thomas Vato)
When obstacles are overcome, our courage grows.
28. Human beings lose their logic in their desire for revenge. (Elizabeth Cady Stanton Vista)
Revenge is a path that consumes you until it destroys you.
29. Logic is an instrument to reinforce prejudice. (Elbert Hubbard)
There are supposed logical foundations that have nothing to do with this.
30. Logic is a poor guide compared to custom. (Winston Churchill)
Routine can be more powerful than any other skill developed.
31. We call the rational understanding of things logic and God simply chooses to gift it in drops with the name of wisdom. (Hermes Antonio Varillas Labrador)
Understanding logic develops over time.
32. After all, it is possible that metaphysics is nothing more than the art of being certain of something that is not true, and logic, the art of walking into error with confidence. (Joseph Wood Krutch)
Two different arts that benefit people.
33. Well ordered and in logical succession, some words help each other, and the entire meaning is easily remembered for a long time. (Sigmund Freud)
The power of words.
34. There is always some kind of hidden logic. (Christian Lacroix)
There are solutions waiting to be found.
35. Logic is logic. That’s all I say. (Oliver Wendell Holmes)
Can not it be a different way.
36. Computers are made up of nothing more than logic gates stretched out into the horizon in a vast numerical irrigation system. (Stan Augarten)
The way a computer works.
37. The arithmetic of life does not always have a logical reason. (Inshirah Abdur-Ra’uf)
There are equations that each person must solve with their own reason.
38. The logic of words must yield to the logic of reality. (Louis D. Brandeis)
Words can do us both good and help us use perpetual harm.
39. Better to have no logic than to lack feelings. (Charlotte Bronte)
Logic and feelings do not need to be at odds.
40. The man tries to apply a logic that does not really exist. (Javier Sanz)
Looking for a made-up answer to calm his anguish.
41. Feminine intuition exists and is very useful when you have to make decisions, but it clashes with masculine logic. What men have to do is put aside the ego and listen. (Jon Voight)
Talking about feminine logic.
42. Logic: the art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and inabilities of human incomprehension. (Ambrose Bierce)
An interesting way to call logic.
43. The true logic of this world is the calculation of probabilities. (James Clerk Maxwell)
But above all, take advantage of those opportunities.
44. Every work of science great enough to be remembered by a few generations offers an example of the defective state of the art of reasoning at the time in which it was written; and every major step in science has been a lesson in logic. (Charles Sanders Peirce)
Reasoning in science has not always been logical.
45. Experience, the only logic that is sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to resilient health. (Mark Twain)
Experience is what teaches us the most valuable lessons of our lives.
46. It is with children that we have the best opportunity to study the development of logical knowledge, mathematical knowledge, physical knowledge, and so on. (Jean Piaget)
The importance of stimulating children in different areas.
47. You don’t think, you limit yourself to being logical. (Niels Henrik David Bohr)
There are those who hide behind logic so as not to see beyond it.
48. No simple logic is strong enough to support the total construction of human knowledge. (Jean Piaget)
Human knowledge is abstract.
49. Logic is a poor model of cause and effect. (Gregory Bateson)
You have to try a lot to conquer it.
50. Man is not logical and his intellectual history is a record of mental reservations and commitments. He clings to what he can in his old beliefs, even when he is forced to give up his logical basis. (John Dewey)
Beliefs usually have more weight than evidence.
51. Pure logic is the ruin of the spirit. (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry)
It is a barrier that prevents us from experiencing the rest of the world.
52. Logic is wonderful, but sometimes you get better results by thinking. (Sir Terry Pratchett)
Logic is not absolute.
53. When introduced in the wrong time or place, good logic can be the worst enemy of teaching. (George Pólya)
When you force someone to have only logical-mathematical reasoning, they can develop great frustration.
54. You can only find the truth without logic if you have already found the truth without it. (Gilbert Keith Chesterton)
An interesting reflection.
55. What distinguishes the real from the unreal is in the heart. (John Forbes Nash)
We all have some logic within us.
56. Love is illogical, love had consequences: I did this to myself and I should be able to handle it. (Marie Lu)
It is common to believe that love is crazy.
57. Aristotelian logic is the engine for navigation in the world of ideas. (Diana Uribe)
The beginning of all scientific advance.
58. Reason: the arithmetic of emotions. (Elbert Hubbard)
The way logic and emotions come together.
59. Common sense and a sense of humor are the same thing, moving at different speeds. A sense of humor is simply common sense, dancing. (Clive James)
Two sides of the same coin.
60. If you pursue reason far enough, it always leads to conclusions that are contrary to reason. (Samuel Butler)
Don’t be carried away only by what your reason says. Also listen to your heart.
61. Not all opinions are equal. Some are much more robust, sophisticated and better supported in logic and argument than others. (Douglas Adams)
That is why it is important to respect and listen to all opinions.
62. Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic. (Norman Cousins)
Hope is a feeling.
63. Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men. (Thomas Henry Huxley)
64. A detective idiot is a smart idiot, a logical idiot, the worst because the logic of men, instead of compensating for their imbecility, doubles and triples it and makes it offensive. (Javier Marías)
When logic works against us.
65. Logic will never change emotion or perception. (Edward de Bono)
It is an undeniable reality.
66. Love is not the absence of logic but logic examined and recalculated warmed and curved to fit within the contours of the heart. (Tammara Webber)
It’s another type of logic.
67. Logic is like the sword, those who appeal to it will perish by it. (Samuel Butler)
Be careful of the weapons you use.
68. Common sense, even if it tries, cannot help but be surprised from time to time. (Bertrand Russell)
There is always something new to learn.
69. The logic of law is an artificial system of reasoning, exclusively used in courts of law, but of no use anywhere else. (John Quincy Adams)
On the true use of the laws.
70. Only a great intelligence is capable of giving logical meaning to foolish ideas. (Milan Kundera)
A skill that can be used on any occasion.
71. Mathematics expresses values that reflect the cosmos, including order, balance, harmony, logic, and abstract beauty. (Deepak Chopra)
The beauty behind mathematics.
72. Logic is good for reasoning, but bad for living. (Remy de Gourmont)
You can’t deprive yourself of your emotions if you want to live fully.
73. Logic takes care of itself; All we have to do is watch and see how he does it. (Ludwig Wittgenstein)
Things develop in their own way.
74. Logic is a wonderful thing, but it doesn’t always defeat real thinking. (Terry Pratchett)
People have their own way of thinking that is not always correct.
75. Nothing is fair. The most you can hope for is that it is logical. Justice is a rare disease in an otherwise healthy world. (Carlos Ruiz Zafon)
Sometimes the best justice is to try to understand.
76. Tell me what logic it can have for me to love you!
When love surprises you unexpectedly.
77. The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinite number of things that surpass it. (Blaise Pascal)
We are not absolute because there is always something that is greater.
78. We demonstrate by logic, but we discover by intuition. (Henri Poincare)
Both are necessary because they complement each other.
79. Logic, the only science that is admitted not to have improved century after century, is the only one that has not developed symbols. (Augustus De Morgan)
Logic has the same precept as years ago.
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80. He who flees from reason is a true fugitive. (Marcus Aurelius)
You can’t escape your reason forever.
81. Practice has a logic that is not that of the logician. (Pierre Bourdieu)
Everyone has their personal routine.
82. Men tend to confuse the strength of their feeling with the strength of their argument. (William E. Gladstone)
A good argument is one that is given while being calm.
83. What is devoid of meaning is as difficult for us to retain as what is confused or disordered. (Sigmund Freud)
It is something that invites us to find out what lies beyond.
84. But man feels such a passion for systems, for abstract deductions, that he is willing to disguise the truth, to close his eyes and cover his ears to the truth, just to justify his logic. (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
That attraction towards the strange and unknown.
85. The heated mind brings back the cold touch and relentless scrutiny of logic. (William E. Gladstone)
Exaggerated emotion does not listen to reason.
86. If it was so, it could have been so; If it were so, so it could be; but since it is not, it is not. It’s a matter of logic. (Lewis Carroll)
Ways in which logic works.
87. But logic could never convince the heart. (Colin Raye)
There are things that don’t reach the heart.
88. There is no more common and more fatuous error than appealing to logic in cases that are outside its jurisdiction. (Samuel Butler)
Logic only works in its field.
89. I never guess. It is a destructive habit of the logical faculty. (Arthur Conan Doyle)
You have to say things with basis.
90. The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational. (AN Wilson)
An eternal search to feel at ease.
91. A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevails. (La Bruyere)
Imparting reason is what helps us enter a state of calm.
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92. A completely logical mind is like a completely sharp knife. (Rabindranath Tagore)
It becomes a double-edged sword.
93. Logic is a response to passion. (Herb Caen)
A response that helps control us.
94. Let philosophy students learn first logic, then ethics, then physics, and lastly the nature of the gods. (David Hume)
The way philosophy students should learn.
95. When God speaks, we have to mobilize, not reason. (Joyce Meyer)
That’s why you have to know how to listen.
96. The logical place to find a voice from other times is a cemetery from other times. (Howard Phillips Lovecraft)
The voices of yesterday have remained in their remnants of the past.
97. Perfect numbers, like perfect men, are very strange. (Descartes)
Nothing is perfect in this world.
98. Logic is the anatomy of thought. (John Locke)
The way we build ideas.
99. I am no better than anyone else at understanding what makes people tick, particularly women. (Stephen Hawking)
Women and their particular sixth sense.
100. Mathematics is the music of reason. (James Joseph Sylvester)
The vital importance of mathematics.
101. If I were to start my studies again, I would follow Plato’s advice and start with mathematics. (Galileo Galilei)
There is something in mathematics that makes it a mystery to discover.
102. What should be said should always be said in the most concise, logical and clear way possible. (Yamamoto Tsunetomo)
Being ambiguous in what we say can cause many problems.
103. Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to the truth. (Jean de la Bruyère)
It is a tool that allows us to discover the truth.
104. The great error is in assuming that even the truths of what is called pure algebra constitute abstract or general truths. (Edgar Allan Poe)
Not even logic is a total truth.
105. You can be totally rational with a machine. But if you work with people, sometimes logic has to take a backseat and leave understanding ahead. (Akio Morita)
People don’t always respond to logic.
106. The mysteries of attraction could not always be explained by logic. Sometimes the cracks of two separate souls can be what brings them together. (Lisa Kleypas)
Love is not explained by reason.
107. Never waste energy trying to explain to flies why honey is healthier than shit, because the most logical reasoning is anger.
There are people who simply cannot be taught without feeling attacked.
108. Intuition is a suspension of logic due to impatience. (Rita Mae Brown)
A critique of the use of intuition.
109. If you plan it and it seems logical to you, then you can do it. (Robert Ballard)
The logical paths should take you towards that goal you want to achieve.
110. Of all the animals in creation, man is the only one that drinks without being thirsty, eats without being hungry and speaks without having anything to say. (John Steinbeck)
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