Argument Quotes

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

I like plays where people talk a lot. Conversation is sustained. Argument is sustained.

When you're in the Middle of an Argument, ask yourself: Do I want to be Right or be Happy?

One can never win an argument with ignorance.

There's more to logic than identifying logical fallacies.

The love of conflict is most evident when opposing forces join sides to defeat the peacemaker.

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

I am not here to merely argue about the perplexities regarding theism or philosophy, but to be a light to the world and to reach out to those who long to be a part of that light.

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate and unacceptable argument for regime change.

There are 435 members of Congress. There's one 'Morning Joe' show. Hopefully, we can keep hammering the argument that you can disagree with other people and have debates but remain civil.

I don’t believe there are two sides to every argument. I think the facts are the center. And watching the news abandon the facts in favor of “fairness” is what’s troubling to me.

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.

Good editorial writing has less to do with winning an argument, since the other side is mostly not listening, than with telling the guys on your side how they ought to sound when they’re arguing.

How often have I not heard a perfectly intelligent female says, in the tone of one clinching an argument, 'Edgar says -- ' And all the time you are perfectly aware that Edgar is a perfect fool.

If I were wrong, wouldn't one be enough?

Discussion and argument are essential parts of science; the greatest talent is the ability to strip a theory until the simple basic idea emerges with clarity.

Cease being intimidated by the argument that a right action is impossible because it does not yield maximum profits, or that a wrong action is to be condoned because it pays.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

The argument holds no water at all, not even a thimbleful.

Let us begin to understand the argument. There is a solution to everything: Science.

Sometimes a word or an argument will trigger a poem.

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.

The bestway to diffuse an argument is to listen first, second, and last.

If the social conservatives feel that they have a strong argument on traditional marriage, then feel free to have it.

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

I love the question-and-answer. I love to see liberals try to thrash their way to a coherent argument. And actually, I think it's fun to debate.

I have noticed that no sooner do people embark on a course of action which they do not find wholly satisfactory than they muster every argument to persuade others to imitate it.

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to make you sleep.

In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.

It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.

Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may lead.

We'd won the argument 15 years before, we were just losing the fight. And so it became clear to some of us that we would need to organise to fight, that we weren't going to win.

America is the longest argument in the world.

A silly row which got out of hand.

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

I've had a lot of arguments with people, but it's never really gotten physical.

Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself. (on Craig Bellamy)

If you take anything that succeeded, just imagine it succeeding 10 years before or 10 years after, you could almost always make, with the same plausibility, the "it fit the times" argument.

Liberals are sometimes defined as people who can't take their own side in an argument.

I've been out with men who have literally had an argument with the mirror because they couldn't get their hair right. When I was younger, I might have reassured him, but I can't do that anymore.

I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.

There is no satisfaction to be derived from having had many of our arguments borne out by events.

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or siblings, or whatever.