Evidence Quote by Sam Harris

If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide that proves they should value evidence. If someone doesn’t value logic, what…

— Sam Harris

Water is two parts hydrogen and one part oxygen. What if someone says, “Well, that’s not how I choose to think about water.”? All…

— Sam Harris

If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

— Sam Harris

“Hence the uselessness of logic: no one ever convinced anybody by logic; and even logicians use logic only as a source of income. To…

— Will Durant

Logic is essentially a tool for getting at truth; it is the tool, for without it no reasoning is possible in any field of…

— David Oderberg

“Logic means reason. Reasoning justifies actions. Before a person acts, they ought to justify their purpose.”

— Dr. Hussam Atef Elkhatib

“Most of us, in our civilized society, rely too heavily on reasoning capacity to make things happen. We've been raised to believe that logic…

— Herb Cohen

Logic is the art of convincing us some truth.

— Jean de la Bruyere

“Logic is not the science of Belief, but the science of Proof, or Evidence. In so far as belief professes to be founded on…

— John Stuart Mill

“Logic requires knowledge.”

— Kamil Alvi

“Of course, logic is not the only tool used in debate, and it is helpful to be cognizant of the others. Rhetoric likely tops…

— Ali Almossawi

The very reason we need logic at all is because most reasoning is not conscious at all.

— Julian Jaynes