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

1.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

2.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

3.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

4.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

5.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

6.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

7.

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

Swift, Jonathan

8.

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

9.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Publilius Syrus

13.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

14.

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

Proverb, Spanish

15.

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

Proverb

16.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

17.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

18.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

19.

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

Saadi

20.

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

21.

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

22.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

23.

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

Joubert, Joseph

24.

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

25.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

27.

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

Layton, Irving

28.

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

Joseph Farrell

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

31.

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

Whately, Richard

32.

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

G. K. Chesterton

33.

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

34.

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

Antisthenes

35.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

36.

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

Joubert, Joseph

37.

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

Adler, Larry

38.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

39.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

40.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

41.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

42.

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.

43.

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

44.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

45.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

46.

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

Dennett, Daniel

47.

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