Motivational Quotes

Argument

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

2.

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

Fuller, Thomas

3.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

4.

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

Chinese Proverb

5.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

6.

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

Layton, Irving

7.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

8.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

9.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

10.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

11.

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

Swift, Jonathan

12.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

14.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

15.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

16.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

22.

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

23.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

24.

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

25.

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

26.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

27.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

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

29.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

30.

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

Joubert, Joseph

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

33.

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.

34.

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

Auson

35.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

Koch, Edward

36.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

37.

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

38.

I can win an argument on any topic, against any opponent. People know this, and steer clear of me at parties. Often, as a sign of their great respect, they don't even invite me.

Dave Barry

39.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

40.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

41.

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

Pope, Alexander

42.

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

Whately, Richard