Lewis Carroll Quotes

You should carefully study the Art of Reasoning, as it is what most people are very deficient in, and I know few things more disagreeable than to argue, or even converse with a man who has no idea of inductive and deductive philosophy.

Logic can become enormously difficult, and it would undoubtedly be well to produce more assurance in its use.

I live by syllogisms: God is love. Love is blind. Stevie Wonder is blind. Therefore, Stevie Wonder is God. I don't know what I'd believe in if it wasn't for that.

Logic: The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

Logic is neither an art nor a science but a dodge.

We may either proceed from principles to facts, or recede from facts to principles.

The knowledge of the theory of logic has no tendency whatever to make men good reasoners.

Bad reasoning as well as good reasoning is possible; and this fact is the foundation of the practical side of logic.

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.

Logic is like the sword - those who appeal to it, shall perish by it.

Logic takes care of itself; all we have to do is to look and see how it does it.

SYLLOGISM, n. A logical formula consisting of a major and a minor assumption and an inconsequent.

But Carroll's were more convoluted, and they struck me as funny in a new way: 1) Babies are illogical. 2) Nobody is despised who can manage a crocodile. 3) Illogical persons are despised. Therefore, babies cannot manage crocodiles. And: 1) No interesting poems are unpopular among people of real taste. 2) No modern poetry is free from affectation. 3) All of your poems are on the subject of soap bubbles. 4) No affected poetry is popular among people of taste. 5) Only a modern poem would be on the subject of soap bubbles. Therefore, all your poems are uninteresting.

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.

Reasoning draws a conclusion, but does not make the conclusion certain, unless the mind discovers it by the path of experience.

The deductive method is the mode of using knowledge, and the inductive method the mode of acquiring it.

The definition of insanity in Texas is so insane that it's impossible to be insane in Texas.

I always see the absurdity in most situations. It's my experience of how life works.

Logic has made me hated in the world.

A philosopher once said, 'Half of good philosophy is good grammar.'

In complex trains of thought signs are indispensable.

Humor is something that thrives between man's aspirations and his limitations. There is more logic in humor than in anything else. Because, you see, humor is truth.