Logic is a poor guide compared with custom. - Sir Winston Churchil

Logic is a poor guide compared with custom. – Sir Winston Churchill

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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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Logic, n. The art of thinking and reasoning in strict accordance with the limitations and incapacities of the human misunderstanding. – Ambrose Bierce

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The last function of reason is to recognize that there are an infinity of things which surpass it. – Blaise Pascal, Pensées, 1670

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A wise man is not governed by others, nor does he try to govern them; he prefers that reason alone prevail. – La Bruyère, Characters, 1688

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