Logical Argument Quotes

#1. Rationalization: This is a close cousin of intellectualization. It occurs when we are so afraid of feeling pain, disappointment, or guilt that we make up a logical argument to reduce these feelings.

Shirley Impellizzeri

#2. The key to holding a logical argument or debate is to allow oneself to understand the other person's argument no matter how divergent their views may seem.

Auliq Ice

#3. No one should expect that any logical argument or any experience could ever shake the almost religious fervor of those who believe in salvation through spending and credit expansion.

Ludwig Von Mises

#4. Fundamental assumptions in general and scientific assumptions in particular are so hard to overturn because they are based on belief. Beliefs are so hard to overcome because they are irrational and therefore do not yield to logical argument.

Thomas Campbell

#5. How many movements began when an aesthetic encounter indelibly changed our past perceptions of the world? It was an abolitionist's print, not logical argument, which dealt the final blow to the slave trade - the broadside of Description of a Slave Ship (1789).

Sarah Lewis

#6. If someone doesn't value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove that they should value it? If someone doesn't value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

Sam Harris

#7. The idea comes before the logical argument.

Gerald Abrahams

#8. Adrian sifted through the bags and pulled out a slice of coconut cream. "If I were a dragon, this is what I'd go for."
I didn't argue, mainly because that statement had no logical argument.

Richelle Mead

#9. Just as we are not all equally able to carry a tune or draw a straight line, many people simply cannot recognize the gaps in their own knowledge or understand their own inability to construct a logical argument. Education

Thomas M. Nichols

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

Sam Harris

#11. If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

George Soros

#12. The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the idea of intelligence, rather than intelligence itself, becomes a staple, there is no wisdom in it.

Criss Jami

#13. What convinces is conviction. Believe in the argument you're advancing. If you don't you're as good as dead. The other person will sense that something isn't there, and no chain of reasoning, no matter how logical or elegant or brilliant, will win your case for you.

Lyndon B. Johnson

#14. I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument.

Edward R. Murrow

#15. Mr. Dawkins' assertions are self-refuting- ie. Actual infinity vs. potential infinity easily makes the most reasonable argument for theism and a Deity. Now, the argument for the Creator God of Christianity requires much more time, energy, and logical effort."


~R. Alan Woods [2007]

R. Alan Woods

#16. Don't confuse a kid whining for a treat with the argument of a rigorous, logical mind, he had said, as logical as ever.

Miyuki Miyabe

#17. Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Alphonse De Lamartine

#18. There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

Criss Jami

#19. The argument for the perfectibility of humankind rests on a logical fallacy. Thus: man is by definition imperfect, say those who would perfect him. But those who would perfect him are themselves, by their own definition, imperfect.

Margaret Atwood

#20. There was no arguing with a man when he started saying thing like that
using logic as a weapon.

Sally Wentworth

#21. Logical reasoning is an argument which we have with ourselves and which reproduces internally the features of a real argument.

Jean Piaget

#22. I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

Victor Serge

#23. De Bono argues that the West's tradition of settling disagreement by debate or argument is an example of overreliance on logic.

Steve Volk

#24. The human mind is as naturally sensitive to arguments as the eye is to colors. (There may be some people who are argument-blind!) But the eye will not see if it is not kept open, and the mind will not follow an argument if it is not awake.

Mortimer J. Adler