Motivational Quotes

Argument

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

- Anacharsis

Best Quotes about Argument

The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

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

Koch, Edward

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

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

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

10.

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

11.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Jascha Heifetz

12.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

13.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

14.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Layton, Irving

15.

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

Dennett, Daniel

16.

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

Chinese Proverb

17.

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

Auson

18.

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

Pope, Alexander

19.

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.

20.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

21.

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

22.

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

Pope, Alexander

23.

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

Publilius Syrus

24.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

25.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Saadi

27.

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

Whately, Richard

28.

There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Acton, Lord

29.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

30.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

31.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Joubert, Joseph

32.

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

Proverb, Spanish

33.

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

Adler, Larry

34.

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

35.

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

G. K. Chesterton

36.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

37.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

38.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

39.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

40.

The sounder your argument, the more satisfaction you get out of it.

Howe, Edgar Watson

41.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

42.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Prior, Matthew

43.

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

44.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.

Proverb

46.

An argument is like a country road, you never know where it is going to lead.

47.

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

Fuller, Thomas

48.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

49.

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

Antisthenes

50.

Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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