Judy Sheindlin Quotes

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.

The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense.

Argument is not always truth.

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

To arrive at a contradiction is to confess an error in one's thinking; to maintain a contradiction is to abdicate one's mind and to evict oneself from the realm of reality.

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

When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid—in which case all comment is superfluous—or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.

...logical validity is not a guarantee of truth.

It might not be true, but that doesn't mean it's nonsense.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

Science is the great antidote to the poison of enthusiasm and superstition.

I live in Realville, and my problem is that I'm governed by logic. And some of the claims that are made by people on the left just don't hold up.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

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

We must never assume that which is incapable of proof.

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

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

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Logic must look after itself. In a certain sense, we cannot make mistakes in logic.

Faith is a cop-out. If the only way you can accept an assertion is by faith, then you are conceding that it can’t be taken on its own merits.

The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship. The proof of a theory is in its reasoning, not in its sponsorship.

Common sense is often common nonsense. There is much that we have learned from science that is counter-intuitive.

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

Happily I had very early learned the fallacy of building much on logic and verbal argument. Single sets of truths I knew to be as little conclusive in theology as in physics; and, in one as in the other, no theory to be worth anything, however plausibly backed up with Scripture texts or facts, which was not gathered bona fide from the analysis of all the attainable phenomena, and verified wherever possible by experiment.