A mind all logic is like a knife all blade.

What it means

Pure logic without warmth or judgment cuts the person who wields it. Reason needs a handle of feeling and sense. Think sharply, but keep something to hold on by.

The source

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade." Rabindranath Tagore said it in Stray Birds 193 (1916). Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

"A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it."

Rabindranath Tagore, 1916, Stray Birds 193 (1916). Text read at gutenberg.org.

Who said it

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Bengali poet, composer and teacher, and in 1913 the first non-European to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. He rendered his own short poems into English in Gitanjali and Stray Birds.

Questions

What does "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade." mean?

Pure logic without warmth or judgment cuts the person who wields it. Reason needs a handle of feeling and sense. Think sharply, but keep something to hold on by.

Who said "A mind all logic is like a knife all blade."?

Rabindranath Tagore (1861-1941). Source: Stray Birds 193 (1916).

What is the original wording?

A mind all logic is like a knife all blade. It makes the hand bleed that uses it (Rabindranath Tagore, 1916). Translated by Rabindranath Tagore, 1916.

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