Logic Convention

Famous quotes containing the words logic and/or convention:

“What avail all your scholarly accomplishments and learning, compared with wisdom and manhood? To omit his other behavior, see what a work this comparatively unread and unlettered man wrote within six weeks. Where is our professor of belles-lettres, or of logic and rhetoric, who can write so well?”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)

“Mankind owes to the child the best it has to give.”
—United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989.