Soundness Quotes

Logic is the art of making truth prevail.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

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

There is no man more dangerous, in a position of power, than he who refuses to accept as a working truth the idea that all a man does should make for rightness and soundness, that even the fixing of a tariff rate must be moral.

The upward course of a nation's history is due in the long run to the soundness of heart of its average men and women.

We can be or become wise in all matters of secondary importance, but we have to be resigned to utter ignorance in the most important respect: we cannot have any knowledge regarding the ultimate principles of our choices, i.e. regarding their soundness or unsoundness... We are then in the position of beings who are sane and sober when engaged in trivial business and who gamble like madmen when confronted with serious issues.

Logic teaches rules for presentation, not thinking.

If it doesn't make sense, it's usually not true.

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.

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.

To reason logically is so to link one's propositions that each should contain the reason for the one succeeding it, and should itself be demonstrated by the one preceding it. Or at any rate, whatever the order adopted in the construction of one's own exposition, it is to demonstrate judgments by each other.

It's a safe banking system, a sound banking system. Our regulators are on top of it. This is a very manageable situation.

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

I'll trade glib for common sense any day.

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.

A sane man often reasons from sound premises; an insane man commonly reasons as well, but the premises are unsound.

Where sense is wanting, everything is wanting.

Happiness is no other than soundness and perfection of mind.

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

Speak as you think, be what you are, pay your debts of all kinds. I prefer to be owned as sound and solvent, and my word as good as my bond, and to be what cannot be skipped, or dissipated, or undermined, to all the eclat in the universe. This reality is the foundation of friendship, religion, poetry, and art.

There was a time when "sound as a dollar" was a description, not a joke.

From the preponderance of talent, we may always infer the soundness and vigour of the commonwealth; but from the preponderance of riches, its dotage and degeneration.

Right answers to difficult questions are better than wrong answers to difficult questions.

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