Motivational Quotes

Argument

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

- Anacharsis

Best Quotes about Argument

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Voltaire

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

Adler, Larry

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

Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

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The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Auson

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

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When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

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

18.

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

19.

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

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

Prior, Matthew

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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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

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There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

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

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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

41.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

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The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Chinese Proverb

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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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

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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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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

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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