Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

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

2.

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

Joseph Farrell

3.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

4.

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

Pope, Alexander

5.

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

6.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

7.

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

8.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

9.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

10.

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

11.

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

12.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

13.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

14.

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

15.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

16.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

17.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

18.

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

Adler, Larry

19.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

20.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

21.

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

Whately, Richard

22.

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

23.

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

24.

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

Dennett, Daniel

25.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

26.

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

Chinese Proverb

27.

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

Joubert, Joseph

28.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

29.

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

30.

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

Saadi

31.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

32.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

33.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

34.

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.

35.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

36.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

37.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

38.

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

Pope, Alexander

39.

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

Maurois, Andre

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.

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

Swift, Jonathan

42.

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

Fuller, Thomas

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb, Spanish

45.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

46.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

47.

We are not won by arguments that we can analyze, but by tone and temper; by the manner, which is the man himself.