Motivational Quotes

Argument

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

- Ayn Rand

Best Quotes about Argument

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Auson

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

10.

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

11.

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

Voltaire

12.

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

13.

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

14.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

15.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

16.

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

G. K. Chesterton

17.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

18.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

19.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

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

Maurois, Andre

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

22.

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

Dennett, Daniel

23.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

24.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

25.

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

Whately, Richard

26.

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

Fuller, Thomas

27.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

28.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

29.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

30.

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

31.

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

Pope, Alexander

32.

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

Pope, Alexander

33.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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

Antisthenes

37.

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

38.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

39.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

40.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Swift, Jonathan

45.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

46.

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

Chinese Proverb

47.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

49.

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

Proverb, Spanish