Howard Gardner Quotes

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

The only good reason to embrace a philosophical position is that you are convinced it is true or at least makes sense of the world better than the alternatives.

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

The truth is always the strongest argument.

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

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

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

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

Logic is the technique by which we add conviction to truth.

Namely, we have no right to believe a thing true because everybody says so unless there are good grounds for believing that some one person at least has the means of knowing what is true, and is speaking the truth so far as he knows it.

Logic is pointless.

If faith is a valid tool of knowledge, then anything can be true 'by faith,' and therefore nothing is true. If the only reason you can accept a claim is by faith, then you are admitting that the claim does not stand on its own merits.

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.

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

Facts are counterrevolutionary.

Convincing yourself doesn't win an argument.

Science is about nothing but getting at the truth, and anything that gets in the way of that diminishes, in my experience, the science.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Rhetoric is cheap, evidence comes more dearly.

It is an old maxim of mine that when you have excluded the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.

Logic! Good gracious! What rubbish!

Rhetoric and dialectics can't change what I have learned from observation and experience.

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

Truth is the daughter of time, not of authority.