Argument Quotes

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

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

The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

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.

My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close to her - we've only ever had one argument, and that was over something stupid when I was 13.

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

There should be no argument in regard to morality in art. There is no morality in nature.

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

You certainly wouldn’t want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place.

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

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

Anecdotes are sometimes the best vehicles of truth, and if striking and appropriate are often more impressive and powerful than argument.

In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

It is, however, an argument of no weight to say that natural bodies are first generated or compounded out of those things into which they are at the last broken down or dissolved.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

The main point for me is moral; animals are sentient beings. I know for some this is a hard argument to accept, but we're not built to eat a lot of meat.

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004]

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.

Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do not understand enough the scope of the justification.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

They believed that Britain was in Ireland defending their own interests, therefore the Irish had the right to use violence to put them out. My argument was that that type of thinking was out of date.

Suckers try to win arguments, nonsuckers try to win.

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by good evidence and good argument.

The argument that making contraceptives available to young people would prevent teen pregnancies is ridiculous. That's like offering a cookbook as a cure to people who are trying to lose weight.

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

As set forth by theologians, the idea of 'God' is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and proves nothing.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

This argument has been codified in the twentieth century as meritocracy, in which those on top in the process of capitalist accumulation have merited their position.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.