Argue Quote by Joseph Joubert

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

— Frank Herbert

To justify God's ways to man.

— A. E. Housman

To lay down one's life for the truth.

— Juvenal

We go on our hands and knees and crawl our way towards the truth

— Ian Mcewan

To add to truth distracts from it,

— Alex Toth

All discussion, all debate, all dissidence tends to question and in consequence, to upset existing convictions; that is precisely its purpose and its justification.

— Learned Hand

To recognize that some of the things our culture believes are not true imposes on us the duty of finding out which are true…

— Allan Bloom

Our reason arises, at the very least, from this twofold lesson of sensuous revelations and human testimonies.

— Johann Georg Hamann

To be able to discern that what is true is true, and that what is false is false,--this is the mark and character of…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“A major reason, I believe, is this: It does not sit comfortably with a person to affirm, and try to live, the claim that…

— Esther Lightcap Meek

Reason is simply a vast tautology.

— J. M. Coetzee

Where the senses fail us, reason must step in.

— Galileo Galilei