Argument Quotes

Suffering over things that have happened to us is nothing more than an argument with the past.

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

The finding of arguments for a conclusion given in advance is not philosophy, but special pleading

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.

Injustice upon earth renders the justice of of heaven impossible.

In comedy laughter settles all arguments.

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness.

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion but rather to know it.

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

It's very difficult to get any movies done about Black heroes - Haitian or American - in Hollywood. The argument in Hollywood is that there is no market for those movies, and that is not true.

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye" eventually ends in making everybody blind.

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

Some people have made the argument, well, Donald Trump is bad, but Hillary Clinton may be worse, or there's really no difference. That's insane. That's completely insane.

You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to do a joke because it will hopefully build into an argument.

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

The reductio ad absurdum is God's favorite argument.

You could start an argument in an empty house.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

A fair-minded person tries to see both sides of an argument.

Any political agenda and organization which doesn't begin with personal responsibility is just half the argument. It's just not going to succeed.

The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear what you say."

If a man will stand up and assert, and repeat and re-assert, that two and two do not make four, I know nothing in the power of argument that can stop him.

His argument is as thin as the homeopathic soup that was made by oiling the shadow of a pigeon that had been starved to death.

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

The abuse of a thing is no argument against the use of it.

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

I know to argue against our online lives seems like the argument of the grumpy, old Luddite novelist, but I really always try to make the argument from the perspective of personal pleasure.

The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed over without consideration.

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

The argument is at an end.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.

A crucial contribution to the ideological argument ...it provides a vital part of the intellectual manifesto on which the battle for a better society can be fought

Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

Ministers who threaten death and destruction employ weapons of weakness. Argument and kindness are alone effectual, flavored by the principles of Divine love.

All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

If you are ignorant, you certainly can get into some interesting arguments.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

The Republicans, in the various arguments, repeat exactly the same phrases one after another, with no sense of embarrassment, no sense of shame, no sense of intellectual integrity.