Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Friedrich Nietzsche

Best Quotes about Argument

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Koch, Edward

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

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

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

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

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Proverb, Spanish

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

10.

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

11.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

12.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

13.

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

Dennett, Daniel

14.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

15.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Pope, Alexander

18.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

19.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

20.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

21.

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

22.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

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

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The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

26.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

27.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

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

Prior, Matthew

29.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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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

31.

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

Voltaire

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

Auson

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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

35.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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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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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

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

41.

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

Chinese Proverb

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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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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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Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Adler, Larry

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When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

49.

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.