Arguing Quote by Steven Pinker

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the argument, because…

— Steven Pinker

Reason may not always tell us what to believe, but it can help us on what we shouldn't believe.

— Walter Kaufmann

Reason is itself a matter of faith. It is an act of faith to assert that our thoughts have any relation to reality at…

— Anonymous

We don't have faith in reason; we use reason because, unlike revelation, it produces results and understanding. Even discussing why we should use reason…

— Jerry A. Coyne

It is impossible to reason without arriving at a Supreme Being. Religion is as necessary to reason, as reason is to religion.

— George Washington

“If you believe people use reason for the important decisions in life, you will go through life feeling confused and frustrated that others seem…

— Scott Adams

The belief of our Reason is an Exercise of Faith, and Faith is an Act of Reason.

— Joseph Glanvill

Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was…

— Thomas Nagel

Most of the time you should use reason, there is no doubt about that because gut often makes us susceptible to lots of different…

— Sheena Iyengar

Those who believe without reason cannot be convinced by reason.

— James Randi

An explanation of cause is not a justification by reason.

— C. S. Lewis

Reason can be fought with reason. How are you going to fight the unreasonable? The trouble with you, my dear, and with most people,…

— Ayn Rand