Argument Quotes

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

the central argument of the backlash - that women's equality is responsible for women's unhappiness.

It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.

..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he was English.

When one hears the argument that marriage should be indissoluble for the sake of children, one cannot help wondering whether the protagonist is really such a firm friend of childhood.

The sum total or Ishwara may be said to be All-good, Almighty, and Omniscient. These are obvious qualities, and need no argument to prove, from the very fact of totality.

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the real word for a group of witches is 'an argument'.

I don't think there would be many examples of South Africa pushing its weight around the African Continent. I don't think the facts would substantiate that argument.

Argument weak; speak loudly!

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the region of meditation.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

He who takes nature for his guide, is not easily beaten out of his argument

When an objection cannot be made formidable, there is some policy in trying to make it frightful; and to substitute the yell and the war-whoop, in the place of reason, argument and good order.

America is divided by a great argument about itself. Europe is divided by a great argument about America.

I don't want to say that the creativity would give out - I can't imagine what argument I would bring forward for that. But I think that there's something on the individual level that's a limitation.

The argument on the other side of special rights is completely bogus. It's bogus because you could make exactly the same claim about racial or ethnic or religious minorities.

I'm a politician. I'm not going to get into a whole range of scientific argument with scientists.

The argument [behind climate change] is absolute crap. However, the politics of this are tough for us. Eighty per cent of people believe climate change is a real and present danger.

I'm afraid that's in the nature of modern politics - it's as much conducted by abuse as argument.

The photograph [of Che Guevara], for a civilization now accustomed to thinking in images, was not the description of a single event... it was an argument.

Infinite are the arguments of mages.

No references to the need to fight terror can be an argument for restricting human rights.

An old argument with me is that the true religious force in the world is not the church, but the world itself: the mysterious callings of Nature and our responses.

I have no mockings or arguments; I witness and wait.

If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him.

There's no winning arguments with your parents

Success and vocabulary go hand in hand. This has been proven so often that it no longer admits of argument.

More words ain't good for anything in the world only to bring on more argument.

Clear statement is argument.

Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.

The power of music that poetry lacks is the ability to persuade without argument.

"Fair, kind, and true" is all my argument, "Fair, kind, and true" varying to other words; And in this change is my invention spent, Three themes in one, which wondrous scope affords.

The object of Parliament is to substitute argument for fisticuffs.

Shallow men believe in luck or in circumstance. Strong men believe in cause and effect.

Lincoln had entirely outgrown juvenile delight in religious argument. Talking with God seemed to the mature Lincoln more important than talking about Him.

I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to be as rapid and as impressive as possible.

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing to another, introducing new and disconnected points, so that there was no knowing to which to reply.

Many can argue not many converse.

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint and heard great argument About it and about: but evermore Came out by the same door where in I went.

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just using his memory.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

A tightly woven argument is more impermeable to the frigid winds of criticism.