Plato Quotes

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

I hope you become comfortable with the use of logic without being deceived into concluding that logic will inevitably lead you to the correct conclusion.

An ingenious web of probabilities is the surest screen a wise man can place between himself and the truth.

Even if all parts of a problem seem to fit together like the pieces of a jigsaw puzzle, one has to remember that the probable need not necessarily be the truth and the truth not always probable.

Logic and truth are two very different things, but they often look the same to the mind that's performing the logic.

Logic invents as many fallacies as it detects; it is a good weapon, but as liable to be used in a bad as in a good cause.

I respect faith, but doubt is what gives you an education.

To give a reason for anything is to breed a doubt of it.

There have to be people who are vocal about the advancement of knowledge over faith.

Dogmatism and skepticism are both, in a sense, absolute philosophies; one is certain of knowing, the other of not knowing. What philosophy should dissipate is certainty, whether of knowledge or ignorance.

It is wrong always, everywhere, and for anyone, to believe anything upon insufficient evidence.

In my opinion, it helps enormously to know why something is true, rather than being told it is true, for why should you believe me? Never believe anything on the authority of a single person but seek confirmation — and reason is the best confirmation

Doubt is the offspring of knowledge: the savage never doubts at all.

I don't think you get a lot of comedians who are homeopaths. Comedy is essentially about not being hoodwinked.

Logic is a system whereby one may go wrong with confidence.

We must take care not to admit as true anything, which is only probable. For when one falsity has been let in, infinite others follow.

Our reasonings grasp at straws for premises and float on gossamers for deductions.

No one has ever understood anything better by assuming that there is no reason for why it is the way it is.

Logic: an instrument used for bolstering a prejudice.

Finding bad reasons for what one believes for other bad reasons - that's philosophy.

Sometimes things seem too good to be true.

A man's most valuable trait is a judicious sense of what not to believe.

Bein logical gave me a reason to doubt

Anyone who values truth should stop worshipping reason.