Argument Quotes

The weight of an argument may often be multiplied by making it specific

I get in fewer arguments when I'm alone.

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

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

Most people go not by argument, but by sympathies.

Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

The only argument you can make against having Confederate flag as spectacularly shown as it is around the south is the Nazis. I mean, it would be like having the swastika flag...

The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill in argument, in persuasion, in management, avails nothing.

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

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

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.

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

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

Culturally, one of the best arguments we can make is, wait and see.

Whenever we want to combat our enemies, first and foremost we must start by understanding them rather than exaggerating their motives.

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

The more arguments you win, the less friends you will have

I think it would be a great improvement if there were no D&O insurance . The counter-argument is that no-one with any money would serve on a board. But I think net net you'd be better off.

The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.

Arguing with the girlfriend. Mid argument she says "Were you on Monday night Raw last night?" I had no comeback.

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

An argument fatal to the communist theory, is suggested by the fact, that a desire for property is one of the elements of our nature.

Since when was an emotional argument won by logic?

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

The next time you find yourself in an argument, rather than defend your position, see if you can see the other point of view first.

Arguments are too much like disputes.

A woman at the rear of the room raised her hand. I was focused on the argument now and made a minor social error, which I quickly corrected. "The fat woman-overweight woman-at the back?"

In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

Arithmetic has a very great and elevating effect, compelling the soul to reason about abstract number, and rebelling against the introduction of visible or tngible objects into the argument.

History is an argument without end.

We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with it.

Strive not with your superiors in argument, but always submit your judgment to others with modesty.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth.

Do they believe their cause so just that they are above and beyond the truth?

Let argument bear no unmusical sound.

We must reinforce argument with results.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

The senator had only one argument in his favour: his feeling. When the heart speaks, the mind finds it indecent to object. In the realm of kitsch, the dictatorship of the heart reigns supreme.

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.

The only real argument for monolithic systems was performance, and there is now enough evidence showing that microkernel systems can be just as fast as monolithic systems.