Quotes About Reasoning

No one ever converted to Christianity because they lost the argument.

Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

To every argument an equal argument is opposed.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Tears are not arguments.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.