Logic Quotes

Logic will get you from A to Z; imagination will get you everywhere.

The logic of the world is prior to all truth and falsehood.[Die Logik der Welt ist aller Wahr- und Falschheit primär.]

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.[Die Logik sorgt für sich selbst; wir müssen ihr nur zusehen, wie sie es macht.]

If you use a trick in logic, whom can you be tricking other than yourself?[Wenn man in der Logik einen Trick anwendet, wen kann man tricken, außer sich selbst?]

If a gag interfered with the logic of events, no matter how funny it was, I would not use it.

I know that two and two make four – and should be glad to prove it too if I could – though I must say if by any sort of process I could convert 2 and 2 into five it would give me much greater pleasure.

A man will be imprisoned in a room with a door that’s unlocked and opens inwards; as long as it does not occur to him to pull rather than push it.[Ein Mensch ist in einem Zimmer gefangen, wenn die Tür unversperrt ist, sich nach innen öffnet; er aber nicht auf die Idee kommt zu ziehen, statt gegen sie zu drücken.]

A logical theory may be tested by its capacity for dealing with puzzles, and it is a wholesome plan, in thinking about logic, to stock the mind with as many puzzles as possible, since these serve much the same purpose as is served by experiments in physical science.