Theodore Sturgeon 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.

You want the truth, of course. You want me to put two and two together. But two and two doesn’t necessarily get you the truth. Two and two equals a voice outside the window. Two and two equals the wind. The living bird is not its labeled bones.

Logic is in the eye of the logician.

Nothing is more fairly distributed than common sense: no one thinks he needs more of it than he already has.

You have to keep your mind as wide-open as your eyes, because almost nothing is what it seems.

Reason deceives us more often than does nature.

I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt to be deceptive.

He thinks he believes only what he sees, but he is much better at believing than at seeing.

Reality is irrelevant; Perception is everything.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

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.

And as well as I dream, I reason if I want, for that's just another kind of dream.

To be clever in argument is not rationality but rationalization.

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

In every story of solipsism, there is always a conspiracy. Why? Because there is always a background involved in every perception.

Getting rid of a delusion makes us wiser than getting hold of a truth.

The world is real. Consciousness is the illusion.

Our whole social environment seems to us to be filled with forces which really exist only in our own minds.

If you understand hallucination and illusion, you don't blindly follow any leader. You must know if the person is sane or insane, over the abyss.

It is not the facts which guide the conduct of men, but their opinions about facts; which may be entirely wrong. We can only make them right by discussion.

Logic is the art of going wrong with confidence.

Men can reason themselves into almost any sort of opinion if they are so inclined.

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.

Avoid the precepts of those thinkers whose reasoning is not confirmed by experience.

Perception is not always reality.