Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Adler, Larry

Best Quotes about Argument

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

Layton, Irving

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

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

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

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

Pope, Alexander

10.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

11.

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

12.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

13.

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

14.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

15.

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

16.

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

17.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

18.

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

Proverb

19.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

20.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

21.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

22.

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

24.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

25.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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.

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

29.

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

Pope, Alexander

30.

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

Saadi

31.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

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

33.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

34.

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

Auson

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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

36.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

37.

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

G. K. Chesterton

38.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Joubert, Joseph

39.

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

40.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

41.

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

Chinese Proverb

42.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

43.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Publilius Syrus

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

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

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.