Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

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

G. K. Chesterton

2.

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

3.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

4.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

5.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

6.

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

Chinese Proverb

7.

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

Joseph Farrell

8.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

9.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

10.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

11.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

12.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

13.

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.

14.

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

Joubert, Joseph

15.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

17.

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

19.

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

20.

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

Publilius Syrus

21.

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

Fuller, Thomas

22.

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

Proverb, Spanish

23.

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

24.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

25.

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

26.

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

27.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

28.

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

Saadi

29.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

30.

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

Prior, Matthew

31.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

32.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

33.

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

Antisthenes

34.

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

35.

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

Voltaire

36.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

37.

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

38.

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

Pope, Alexander

39.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

40.

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

41.

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

Maurois, Andre

42.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

43.

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

44.

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

Swift, Jonathan

45.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

46.

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

Whately, Richard

47.

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

Adler, Larry

48.

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

Auson

49.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

50.

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