Argument Quote by Ethan Allen

Those who invalidate reason ought seriously to consider whether they argue against reason with or without reason.

— Ethan Allen

The claim is also sometimes made that science is as arbitrary or irrational as all other claims to knowledge, or that reason itself is…

— Carl Sagan

“Conviction, far from being based upon reason, is the enemy of reason; because rationality does not change, while convictions do, all the time.”

— Idries Shah

Persons not habituated to reason often argue absurdly, because, from particular instances, they deduce general conclusions, and extend the result of their limited experience…

— Maria Edgeworth

“Reason quite properly rejects contradiction, but rationalism abhors mystery, which every heresy attempts in its own way to resolve.”

— Michael S. Horton

Many are destined to reason wrongly; others, not to reason at all; and others, to persecute those who do reason.

— Voltaire

“Reason is not always reasonable”

— Bangambiki Habyarimana

“It is my firm conviction that man has nothing to gain, emotionally or otherwise, by adhering to a falsehood, regardless of how comfortable or…

— George H. Smith

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

— Thomas Paine

Setting themselves against reason, as often as reason is against them.

— Thomas Hobbes

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

— Steven Weinberg

“Do not try to apply reason and logic to the unreasonable and illogical.”

— Aegelis