Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Emmons, Nathaniel

Best Quotes about Argument

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Antisthenes

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Layton, Irving

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

Pope, Alexander

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

10.

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

Proverb, Spanish

11.

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

12.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

13.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

14.

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

Publilius Syrus

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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

Auson

17.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

18.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

19.

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

Joseph Farrell

20.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

21.

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

G. K. Chesterton

22.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

24.

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

Saadi

25.

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

Dennett, Daniel

26.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Swift, Jonathan

30.

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

Proverb

31.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

33.

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

34.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

35.

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

36.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

37.

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

Prior, Matthew

38.

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

39.

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

40.

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

Chinese Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

43.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

44.

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

Pope, Alexander

45.

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

Whately, Richard

46.

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

Adler, Larry

47.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

48.

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

49.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

50.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais