Ill Quote by Jonathan Swift

I never met a man who thought his thinking was faulty.

— Michel de Montaigne

When proven wrong, the wise man will correct himself and the ignorant will keep arguing.

— Ali ibn Abi Talib

When we examine the opinions of men, we find that nothing is more uncommon, than common sense; or, in other words, they lack judgment…

— Baron d'Holbach

When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all…

— Thucydides

The study of the errors into which great minds have fallen in the pursuit of truth can never be uninstructive. . . No man…

— Charles Mackay

Reasoning is never, like poetry, judged from the outside at all.

— C. S. Lewis

If a man isn't willing to take some risk for his opinions, either his opinions are no good or he's no good

— Ezra Pound

Obviously, a man's judgement cannot be better than the information on which he has based it. Give him the truth and he may still…

— Arthur Hays Sulzberger

No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic

— George Henry Lewes

It does take great maturity to understand that the opinion we are arguing for is merely the hypothesis we favor, necessarily imperfect, probably transitory,…

— Milan Kundera

“In the case of any person whose judgment is really deserving of confidence, how has it become so? Because he has kept his mind…

— John Stuart Mill

There is no reasoning someone out of a position he has not reasoned himself into.

— Clive James