John Bercow Quotes

I think if I weren't an actress, I might have made a halfway decent attorney! I like the way they think.

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

Logic works, metaphysics contemplates.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

You can't be a practicing attorney without being very disciplined and detail-oriented and having good time management.

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

My dream job would be a lawyer. I can talk my way out of anything, and I love cross-examining people. I think I'd be a really good lawyer.

Logic has made me hated in the world.

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

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

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Logic is the last scientific ingredient of Philosophy; its extraction leaves behind only a confusion of non-scientific, pseudo problems.

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 and philosophy] were of no use, in the church or the state, in the cloister or the court, in peace or war, at home or abroad or anywhere but in the schools

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

I enjoy a good reasoned argument. I love the power of logic.

I try and stay in my right brain as much as I can, but my left takes over.

Logic is a wonderful thing but doesn't always beat actual thought.

Address to Albert Einstein: You are not thinking. You are merely being logical.

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because you're using reason to make your case. ... We don't "believe" in reason.

One cannot refute what one has not thoroughly understood.

Logic ignores the almost, just as the sun ignores the candle.

If logic itself is created rather than being inborn, it follows that the first task of education is to form reasoning.

Whoever in debate quotes authority uses not intellect, but memory.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.