Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Argument

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

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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

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

Voltaire

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

Antisthenes

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

Saadi

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

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Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Proverb

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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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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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

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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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When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

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

Dennett, Daniel

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

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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

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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

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The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

35.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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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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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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.