Logical Consequence

Famous quotes containing the words logical consequence, logical and/or consequence:

“Logical consequences are the scarecrows of fools and the beacons of wise men.”
—Thomas Henry Huxley (1825–1895)

“I see mysteries and complications wherever I look, and I have never met a steadily logical person.”
—Martha Gellhorn (b. 1908)

“I do not believe in lawyers, in that mode of attacking or defending a man, because you descend to meet the judge on his own ground, and, in cases of the highest importance, it is of no consequence whether a man breaks a human law or not. Let lawyers decide trivial cases.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)