Repetition of an argument proves your determination, not…

I read it plain on his face, an implacable determination to get at the truth. C.B. Greenfield had mounted his mental charger, and he…

— Lucille Kallen

An argument which proves too much, proves nothing.

— M. M. Mangasarian

Progress and Poverty was the most closely knit, fascinating, and convincing specimen of argumentation that, I believe, ever sprang from the mind of man.

— Scott Brooks

If thou continuous to take delight in idle argumentation thou mayest be qualified to combat with the sophists, but will never know how to…

— Socrates

In learning and argumentation, the quality brain is similar to a facility of maximum security. What passes the logic test, free of fallacy and…

— Criss Jami

When an apologist attempts to be autonomous in his reasoned argumentation he indicates that he considers God to be less certain than his own…

— Greg L. Bahnsen

“1. God is (by definition) a being than which no greater being can be thought. 2. Greatness includes greatness of virtue. 3. Therefore, God…

— Douglas N. Walton

As a science, logic institutes an analysis of the process of the mind in reasoning, and investigating the principles on which argumentation is conducted;…

— Richard Whately

I think sometimes younger people - not necessarily thinkers and intellectuals and the like, but people who are on social media and who are…

— Michael Eric Dyson

“There comes a point when careful argumentation fails, a time when we are "casting pearls before swine." As Proverbs tells us: "Don't answer a…

— Douglas M. Jones III

Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than…

— Al-Ghazali

Al-Ghazali is the most important philosophical theologian of classical Islam, and Moderation in Belief is among his most important works. It sets out al-Ghazali's…

— Peter Adamson

“Aus, vorbei. Meine fein ausgeklügelte Argumentation, die aus Ich will nicht besteht, fällt in sich zusammen. Also doch.”

— Anonymous

They [human beings] are unwilling to gamble that God made those people who are skilled at rational argumentation uniquely virtuous. They protect themselves and…

— James G. March

“An objection which applies to all conduct can be no valid objection to any conduct in particular.”

— John Stuart Mill