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 (1825–95)

“The novel is not “a crazy quilt of bits”; it is a logical sequence of psychological events: the movements of stars may seem crazy to the simpleton, but wise men know the comets come back.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)

“Banality is a terribly likely consequence of the underuse of a good mind. That is why in particular it is a female affliction.”
—Cynthia Propper-Seton (b. 1926)