Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Colton, Charles Caleb

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

2.

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

Saadi

3.

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

Publilius Syrus

4.

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

Antisthenes

5.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

6.

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

Proverb, Spanish

7.

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

Adler, Larry

8.

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.

9.

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

Chinese Proverb

10.

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

Joseph Farrell

11.

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

12.

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

Koch, Edward

13.

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

14.

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

Dennett, Daniel

15.

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

Pope, Alexander

16.

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

17.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

18.

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

Joubert, Joseph

19.

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

Swift, Jonathan

20.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

21.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

22.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

23.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

24.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

25.

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

26.

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

Prior, Matthew

27.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

28.

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

Whately, Richard

29.

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

Auson

30.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

31.

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

Voltaire

32.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

33.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

34.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

35.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

36.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

37.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

38.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

39.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

40.

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

Maurois, Andre

41.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

42.

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

43.

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

44.

I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.

Shakespeare, William

45.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

46.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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