Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Argument

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

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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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.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

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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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Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

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

Prior, Matthew

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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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

Dennett, Daniel

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Koch, Edward

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

27.

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

Layton, Irving

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

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Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

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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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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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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

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

Voltaire

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When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

35.

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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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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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

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

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The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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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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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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

Maurois, Andre

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When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

48.

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

Proverb

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

50.

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