Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

Best Quotes about Argument

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

Dennett, Daniel

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

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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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The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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

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

Proverb, Spanish

16.

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

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

22.

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

Layton, Irving

23.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

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Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Saadi

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

31.

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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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Voltaire

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The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

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Bacon, Roger

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

Auson

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Pope, Alexander

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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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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

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

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

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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