I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant

I cannot tell by what logic we call a toad, a bear, or an elephant ugly; they being created in those outward shapes and figures which best express the actions of their inward forms. – Sir Thomas Browne

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Logic is a large drawer, containing some useful instruments, and many more that are superfluous. A wise man will look into it for two purposes, to avail himself of those instruments that are really useful, and to admire the ingenuity with which those that are not so, are assorted and arranged. – Charles Caleb Colton, Lacon

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From a drop of water a logician could infer the possibility of an Atlantic or a Niagara without having seen or heard of one or the other. – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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Truly, that reason upon which we plume ourselves, though it may answer for little things, yet for great decisions is hardly surer than a toss-up. – Charles Sanders Peirce

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A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. – Rabindranath Tagore

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