Arguing Quote by Maria Edgeworth

“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

Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to…

— Thomas Sowell

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

“In real-life situations apparently logical lines of argument are often (not always) based on an inability to see alternative possibilities. In a similar way…

— Edward De Bono

This is a large part of the academic profession: to make up complex, subtle arguments that are childishly ridiculous but are enveloped in sufficient…

— Noam Chomsky

“Those who invalidate reason, ought seriously to consider, 'whether they argue against reason, with or without reason; if with reason, then they establish the…

— Ethan Allen

False reasoners are often best confuted by giving them the full swing of their own absurdities.

— Charles Caleb Colton

“Reasons are bullshit. I know it sounds harsh, however, it’s a good categorical stand to take, as you’ll see. Reasons exist because if people…

— Bernard Roth

The number of people that can reason well is much smaller than those that can reason badly. If reasoning were like hauling rocks, then…

— Galileo Galilei

As so often happens in philosophy, clever people accept a false general principle on a priori grounds and then devote endless labour and ingenuity…

— C. D. Broad

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

— Ethan Allen

In practice, such trifles as contradictions in principle are easily set aside; the faculty of ignoring them makes the practical man.

— Henry Adams