"Logician" Quotes from Famous Books
 ... is indeed Art. Where the logician draws the line, where the premises stop which are the result of cognition—where judgment begins, there Art begins. But more than this even the perception of the mind is judgment again, and consequently Art; and at last, even the perception by the ...
— On War • Carl von Clausewitz
... of the Covenanter Congregation, of which Dr. John Black was pastor for forty-five years. He was a man of power, a profound logician, with great facility in conveying ideas. To his pulpit ministrations I am largely indebted for whatever ability I have to discriminate between truth and falsehood; but the church was in Pittsburg, and ...
— Half a Century • Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm
... in marryin' 'em,' says Texas, expoundin' his p'sition concernin' ladies in answer to Boggs who claims he's inconsistent, 'don't mean I wants 'em killed. But you never was no logician, Dan.' ...
— Faro Nell and Her Friends - Wolfville Stories • Alfred Henry Lewis
... if it isn't, you show me why, you're a logician." There was a twinkle in the eye of George Marston ...
— The Strength of Gideon and Other Stories • Paul Laurence Dunbar
... and why certain things were done, why realism, so-called, could never be anything but caricature, and why over-elaboration of small matters can never be otherwise than disproportionate. Nothing could be more just than her saying about Balzac that he was such a logician that he invented things more truthful than the truth itself. No one knew better than she that the truth, as it is commonly understood, does not exist; that it cannot be logical because of its mystery; and that it is the knowledge of its contradictions which shows the ...
— Mauprat • George Sand
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