Motivational Quotes

Argument

Soft words are hard arguments.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

G. K. Chesterton

2.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

3.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

4.

I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

5.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

6.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

Koch, Edward

7.

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

8.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

9.

Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Emmons, Nathaniel

10.

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

Joseph Farrell

11.

Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about

Benchley, Robert

12.

Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Bacon, Roger

13.

Weakness on both sides is, the motto of all quarrels.

Voltaire

14.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Auson

15.

It takes two to quarrel, but only one to end it.

Proverb, Spanish

16.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

17.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

18.

There are usually two sides to every argument but no end.

19.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

Goldsmith, Oliver

21.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

22.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

23.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Sarton, May

25.

True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

Pope, Alexander

26.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.

Whately, Richard

28.

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

Maurois, Andre

29.

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Dennett, Daniel

30.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

31.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison

33.

I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.

Shakespeare, William

34.

A sure way of getting the last word in an argument is to say you right.

35.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Antisthenes

36.

That's the beauty of argument-if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

37.

He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.

Chinese Proverb

38.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Pierre Beaumarchais

39.

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

Publilius Syrus

40.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

41.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

42.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Harris, Sidney J.

43.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Adler, Larry

44.

When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.

Fuller, Thomas

45.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Lowell, James Russell

46.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

47.

If you argue with a woman and win, you lose.

48.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

49.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Franklin, Benjamin

50.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo