Argument Quotes

Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this argument constitutes a persuasive case for the existence of God.

Personally I do not resort to force - not even the force of law - to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all the influence of example - of fashion.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

The bible of cooking. The all-time argument ender. Early in my cooking career, I wielded my Larousse like a weapon and it never let me down.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The power of sound has always been greater than the power of sense.

Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

That God cannot lie, is no advantage to your argument, because it is no proof that priests can not, or that the Bible does not.

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

Metaphor is no argument, though it be sometimes the gunpowder to drive one home, and imbed it in the memory.

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own temper.

You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

Argument is the worst sort of conversation.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.

They forbade me from flying, despite all my protests and arguments. After being once in space, I was desperately keen to go back there. But it didn't happen.

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

The best argument for mutual funds is that they offer safety and diversification. But they don't necessarily offer safety and diversification.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

The voices of cold reason were talking, as usual, to deaf ears.

There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one, and inhabiting it, that we really should.

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

Let your life be your argument.

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

Pentagon dollars are essentially seen as a different kind of funding that doesn't have to stand for itself and make an argument for itself in the house of Congress.

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.