Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Cicero, Marcus T.

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

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

2.

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

Pope, Alexander

3.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

4.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

5.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

6.

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

Pope, Alexander

7.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

8.

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

Joseph Farrell

9.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

10.

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

Maurois, Andre

11.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

13.

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

G. K. Chesterton

14.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

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

Antisthenes

16.

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

Koch, Edward

17.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.

Joubert, Joseph

18.

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

Adler, Larry

19.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

20.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

21.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

22.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

23.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

24.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

25.

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

Proverb, Spanish

26.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

27.

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

Fuller, Thomas

28.

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

29.

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

30.

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

Chinese Proverb

31.

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.

32.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

33.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

34.

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

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

38.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

42.

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

43.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

44.

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

45.

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

Swift, Jonathan

46.

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

47.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

48.

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

49.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

50.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.