Top 12 Logical Arguments Quotes

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 logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

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 logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

Sam Harris

Logical Arguments, Should, Evidence

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

Steven Weinberg

Simple, Logical Arguments, Religion

Steven Weinberg (1992). “Dreams of a Final Theory”, Pantheon

When considering the truth of a proposition, one is either engaged in an honest appraisal of the evidence and logical arguments, or one isn't. Religion is one area of our lives where people imagine that some other standard of intellectual integrity applies.

Sam Harris

Integrity, Logical Arguments, People

Sam Harris (2006). “Letter to a Christian Nation”, Alfred a Knopf Incorporated

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 we can do is appeal to scientific values. And if he doesn’t share those values, the conversation is over. If someone doesn’t value evidence, what evidence are you going to provide to prove they should value it? If someone doesn’t value logic, what logical argument could you provide to show the importance of logic?

Sam Harris

Thinking, Oxygen, Logical Arguments

Money is far more persuasive than logical arguments.

Euripides

Money, Logical Arguments, Persuasive

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

Yield, Logical Arguments, Overcoming

It would behoove you to have your thesis finely tuned and the logical arguments utilized in support of it tightly woven into a credible, and creatively persuasive tapestry.

Alan Woods

Logical Arguments, Support, Woven

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

Sam Harris

Logical Arguments, Should, Prove

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

Religious, Believe, Logical Arguments

Ludwig Von Mises, Murray Newton Rothbard (1980). “Planning for freedom, and sixteen other essays and addresses”, Libertarian Press, Incorporated

When you talk and think of the Absolute, you have to do it in the relative; so all these logical arguments apply.

Swami Vivekananda

Thinking, Logical Arguments, Absolutes

Swami Vivekananda (1921). “Vedanta Philosophy: Inspired Talks, Recorded by a Disciple During the Seven Weeks at Thousand Island Park”

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

Dragons, Logical Arguments, Bags

Richelle Mead (2013). “The Indigo Spell: A Bloodlines Novel”, p.152, Penguin