Oscar Wilde Quotes

Prejudices are rarely overcome by argument; not being founded in reason they cannot be destroyed by logic.

What can you do against the lunatic who is more intelligent than yourself, who gives your arguments a fair hearing and then simply persists in his lunacy?

When you want to attack your opponent’s position, first you have to attack it rationally.

One of the essential and most valid objections against the act of faith is that it is irrational, inasmuch as it offends against the syllogistic rule that the conclusion of an argument shall contain nothing more than the premises.

I stare at her. I've always known that it's impossible to argue with Belinda, not because she's particularly good at it, but because she's so bad at it- that there is no common ground to work from. She simply sees the world she wants to see it and no amount of logic can change her mind.

You can always reason with a German. You can always reason with a barnyard animal, too, for all the good it does.

Reason is so unreasonable, that few people can say they are in possession of it.

Le coeur a ses raisons que la raison ne connait point. French. Pascal. The heart has its reasons, whereof reason knows nothing.

Some people have a gift for stupidity, an almost mystic ability to withstand any form of logic.

No amount of evidence will ever persuade an idiot

Force shites upon Reason's Back.

It's against reason," said Filby. "What reason?" said the Time Traveller.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

You will remember that I remarked the other day, just before we went into the very simple problem presented by Miss Mary Sutherland, that for strange effects and extraordinary combinations we must go to life itself, which is always far more daring than any effort of the imagination.” “A proposition which I took the liberty of doubting.” “You did, Doctor, but none the less you must come round to my view, for otherwise I shall keep on piling fact upon fact on you until your reason breaks down under them and acknowledges me to be right.

Man is a reasoning rather than a reasonable animal.

Since faith rests upon infallible truth, and since the contrary of a truth can never be demonstrated, it is clear that the arguments brought against faith cannot be demonstrations, but are difficulties that can be answered.

Nonsense remains nonsense even when we talk it about God.

Reason is the first victim of strong emotion.

Philosophy may describe unreasoning, as it may describe force; it cannot hope to refute them.

We cannot reason ourselves out of our basic irrationality. All we can do is to learn the art of being irrational in a reasonable way.

I'm impervious to logic.

We cannot reason ourselves into love, nor can we reason ourselves out of it, which suggests that love and reason have little to do with each other.

Fear is the enemy of logic.

Ask me no reason why I love you; for though Love use Reason for his physician, he admits him not for his counsellor.

An obstinate person does not hold opinions; they hold them.