Accepting Quote by Thucydides

“people believe a conclusion is true, they are also very likely to believe arguments that appear to support it, even when these arguments are…

— Daniel Kahneman

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

— Steven Weinberg

“to disagree one doesnt have to be disagreeable”

— Barry Goldwater

“Arguments are never won by reason, but by men, who refuse to be reasonable”

— DR Caithness

“If one listens one may be convinced; and a man who allows himself to be convinced by an argument is a thoroughly unreasonable person”

— Oscar Wilde

We criticize a thinker more acutely when he advances a proposition that is disagreeable to us; and yet it would be more reasonableto do…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.

— Rebecca Goldstein

“He thought logically, and then acted on the conclusion of logical thought. Whereas most of us, I suspect, do the opposite: we make an…

— Julian Barnes

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

— Virginia Woolf

When the intensity of emotional conviction subsides, a man who is in the habit of reasoning will search for logical grounds in favour of…

— Bertrand Russell

Society considers the wrong thing to him to justify his argument finds some. It is another matter that the arguments are not accepted

— Mak_786

A fair-minded man tries to see both sides of an argument.

— Aesop