Argument Quotes

It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.

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

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.

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

An argument in a couple: 2 people attempting to introduce each other to important truths - by panicked shouting.

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

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.

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'

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

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

One of the great commandments of science is: 'Mistrust arguments from authority.'

Surely: the adverb of a man without an argument.

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

Truth does not need argument, agreement, theories or beliefs. There is only one test for it and that is to ask yourself 'Is the statement true or false in my experience?'

I got in an argument with a girlfriend inside of a tent. That's a bad place for an argument, because I tried to walk out, and had to slam the flap.

The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity.

A man sometimes wins an argument, but a woman always wins a silence.

The dominance of conclusions over arguments is most pronounced where emotions are involved.

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.

You don't have to win every argument. Agree to disagree.

If we carry this line of argument to its logical conclusion, the meaning of life consists of the flaws in one's conceptions and what one does about them. Life can be seen as a fertile fallacy.

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.

Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind.

The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end, life itself is but an argument.

A man's opinions are generally of much more value than his arguments.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

The best argument is that which seems merely an explanation.

A real pleasure is a pleasure that one enjoys by one's self, without a companion, and without a single argument.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

There is one thing I know about creative conflict: once my argument is exhausted, I am not going to be unhappy whether it moves in my direction or away.

Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument.

Many times what cannot be refuted by arguments can be parried by laughter.

In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee the result?

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ...[is] outside the domain of mathematics.

Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

For I had often said that the best argument I knew for an immortal life was the existence of a man who deserved one as well as Child did.

A companion is but another self; wherefore it is an argument that a man is wicked if he keep company with the wicked.