Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

2.

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

3.

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

Layton, Irving

4.

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

5.

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.

6.

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

Joubert, Joseph

7.

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

Publilius Syrus

8.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

9.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

10.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

11.

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

12.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

13.

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

Adler, Larry

14.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

15.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

16.

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

Antisthenes

17.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

18.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Dennett, Daniel

21.

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

Auson

22.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

23.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb, Spanish

27.

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

28.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

29.

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

30.

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

31.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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.

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

Saadi

34.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

35.

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

Chinese Proverb

36.

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

Koch, Edward

37.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

38.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

39.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

40.

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

Prior, Matthew

41.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

42.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

44.

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

Whately, Richard

45.

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

46.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

47.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

48.

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

Joseph Farrell

49.

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