Argument Quotes

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.

The difference between science and religion is the difference between a willingness to dispassionately consider new evidence and new arguments , and a passionate unwillingness to do so.

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

The best argument is an undeniably good book.

I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!

the heart of the backlash argument: women are better off 'protected' than equal.

There are certain scenes that would awe an atheist into belief, without the help of other argument.

The best way to win an argument is to begin by being right.

I think the three years have demonstrated how little this argument has to do with reality.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

...nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak, stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to nuclear war.

A gun is not an argument.

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties...welcome to my world.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.

Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration.

I think I had an argument with a hypnotist this morning. It makes perfect sense as I have no memory of it.

If I can make a career for myself after Harry Potter, and it goes well, and is varied and with longevity, then that puts to bed the 'child actors argument'.

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

Argument closes off the doors of the senses. It always masks violence. Continued too long, argument always leads to violence.

Certainly Apple has improved enormously. At the beginning, the sampling rate was an issue for me, but a bigger argument was over digital rights, which I had.

Without argument the species would parish.

Argument is to me the air I breathe.

An argument is a connected series of statements intended to establish a definite proposition... A contradiction is just the automatic gainsaying of anything the other person says." No, it's not.

If you have an argument with someone and you sulk, sometimes you don't want to speak to them. But it is important to keep your friends close to you and do the right things.

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument.

Obscurity in writing is commonly an argument of darkness in the mind. The greatest learning is to be seen in the greatest plainness.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.

There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily to great talkers--in hopes, I suppose, to put an end to the argument.

Theists give several 'proofs' of the existence of God. These are really just arguments, because if there were convincing proof just one would suffice.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

It's difficult to love someone you don't respect, which is hard to remember when you're having an argument.

My wife and I have created our own language. We can be at a table with six other people and have an argument without anyone knowing. It doesn't even have to be out loud. It's bizarre.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

Even a nod from a person who is esteemed is of more force than a thousand arguments or studied sentences from others.

I like to do all the talking myself. It saves time, and prevents arguments.

You can come to know the truth only when you are in love. But love never argues. There is no argument in love, because there is no aggression.

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.

Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.

Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.

Knowledge has come to be defined as what can be proven by secular evidence and arguments.

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.

My argument would be that I don't think there is much that's genuinely political art that is good art.

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.