Argument Quotes

Argument Quote of the day

Prayer is not an argument with God to persuade him to move things our way, but an exercise by which we are enabled by his Spirit to move ourselves his way.

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

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

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

The argument of the broken window pane is the most valuable argument in modern politics.

My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and elisions, always with shapes imposed and disfigurements tolerated.

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a guinea fall with equal velocity in a vacuum.

Never be a spectator of unfairness or stupidity. Seek out argument and disputation for their own sake; the grave will supply plenty of time for silence.

When God says something, the argument is over.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

We always plan too much and always think too little. We resent a call to thinking and hate unfamiliar argument that does not tally with what we already believe or would like to believe.

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

Typography has one plain duty before it and that is to convey information in writing. No argument or consideration can absolve typography from this duty.

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

I don't think the people of the slave states will ever consider the subject of slavery in its true light till some other argument is resorted to other than moral persuasion.

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

My wife Mary and I have been married for forty-seven years and not once have we had an argument serious enough to consider divorce; murder, yes, but divorce, never.

The [first] argument asserts the non-existence of motion on the ground that that which is in locomotion must arrive at the half-way stage before it arrives at the goal.

I've never won an argument with my wife; and the only time I thought I had I found out the argument wasn't over yet.

Be able to analyze statistics, which can be used to support or undercut almost any argument.

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all liberties.

In the real world there is no nature vs. nurture argument, only an infinitely complex and moment-by-moment interaction between genetic and environmental effects

The Last Argument of Kings.

He [Percy] pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help. Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy.

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

When heart speaks and heart listens, harmony is produced. When head talks and head listens, argument is produced.

The zionist argument to justify Israel's present occupation of Arab Palestine has no intelligent or legal basis in history.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

If two men on the same job agree all the time, then one is useless. If they disagree all the time, both are useless.

An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas.

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

Nothing will do more damage to the pro-European movement than giving room to the suspicion that we have something to hide, that we do not have the “cojones” to carry our argument to the people.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; an argument an exchange of ignorance.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

Love is a very compelling argument.

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.