statistics, n.: A system for expressing your political prejudices in
convincing scientific guise.
—Anonymous
Logicians have but ill defined As rational the human kind. Logic, they say, belongs to man, But let them prove it if they can.
—Oliver Goldsmith
For every logical argument there exists an equally logical and opposite argument.
—Anonymous
Logic doesn’t apply to the real world.
—Marvin Minsky
A "critic" is a man who creates nothing and thereby feels qualified to
judge the work of creative men. There is logic in this; he is unbiased
- he hates all creative people equally.
—Anonymous
# Logic is like the sword—those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.
* Samuel Butler
# 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.
* Fyodor Mikhailovich Dostoyevsky
# The want of logic annoys. Too much logic bores. Life eludes logic, and everything that logic alone constructs remains artificial and forced.
* André Gide
# The fact that logic cannot satisfy us awakens an almost insatiable hunger for the irrational.
* A. N. Wilson
There are three kinds of lies: lies, damn lies, and statistics.
—Benjamin Disraeli
Sitran
