Motivational Quotes

Argument

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Argument

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Swift, Jonathan

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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

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

Dennett, Daniel

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

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

Proverb

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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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

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When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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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

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Voltaire

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

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

Whately, Richard

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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

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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

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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.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Proverb, Spanish

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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

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

Publilius Syrus

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

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

Auson

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

31.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Layton, Irving

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

Adler, Larry

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

Koch, Edward

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

Joubert, Joseph

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When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

43.

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

Joseph Farrell

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis