Motivational Quotes

Argument

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

- Dave Barry

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

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

Voltaire

2.

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

G. K. Chesterton

3.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

4.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

5.

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

6.

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

7.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

8.

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

9.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

10.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

11.

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

Koch, Edward

12.

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

13.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

14.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

15.

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

Prior, Matthew

16.

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

Dennett, Daniel

17.

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

Layton, Irving

18.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

19.

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

Maurois, Andre

20.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

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

Proverb

22.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

23.

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

24.

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

Chinese Proverb

25.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

26.

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

27.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

28.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

29.

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

Pope, Alexander

30.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

31.

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

32.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.

Butler, Samuel

33.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

34.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

35.

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

36.

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

Whately, Richard

37.

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

38.

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

Antisthenes

39.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

40.

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

41.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

42.

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

43.

An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Jefferson, Thomas

44.

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

Fuller, Thomas

45.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

46.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

47.

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