Failure Quote by Kevin Simler

“Too many people get away with truly awful ‘reasoning’, not because what they are arguing happens to be true, but because they are in…

— Ellie Rose McKee

“Logical minds, accustomed to be convinced by a chain of somewhat close reasoning, cannot avoid having recourse to this mode of persuasion when addressing…

— Gustave Le Bon

“You don’t convince people by challenging their longest and most firmly held opinions. You find common ground and work from there. Or you look…

— Ryan Holiday

“One of the reasons not to have a big long war with your traditional enemy is that you’re not thinking about the third party,…

— Gary Brecher

“Unless there are good feelings between people, reasoning intelligently is almost impossible.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“when people’s brains are in defensive mode, it becomes harder to see common sense. Small disagreements can end up holding back progress beyond reason.”

— Caroline Webb

In a republican nation whose citizens are to be led by reason and persuasion and not by force, the art of reasoning becomes of…

— Thomas Jefferson

“Thoughtful disagreement is not a battle; its goal is not to convince the other party that he or she is wrong and you are…

— Ray Dalio

“prodemocratic parties can avoid all alliances with antidemocratic parties and candidates.”

— Steven Levitsky

“...we can best understand the furies of war and politics by remembering that almost the whole of each party believes absolutely in its picture…

— Walter Lippmann

“are less confident in a choice when they are asked to produce more arguments to support it”

— Daniel Kahneman

“It is my rule never to take a side in any part in the quarrels of others, nor to inquire into them. I generally…

— Thomas Jeffeson