Motivational Quotes

Argument

Soft words are hard arguments.

- Fuller, Thomas

Best Quotes about Argument

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

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

G. K. Chesterton

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

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

Adler, Larry

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

Maurois, Andre

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

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

Proverb

10.

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

11.

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

Joubert, Joseph

12.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

13.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

14.

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

15.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

17.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

18.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

19.

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

20.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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

22.

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

Layton, Irving

23.

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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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

25.

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

26.

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

Swift, Jonathan

27.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

28.

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

Publilius Syrus

29.

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

30.

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

Chinese Proverb

31.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

32.

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

33.

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

Fuller, Thomas

34.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

35.

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

36.

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

37.

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

Voltaire

38.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

39.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

40.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

41.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

42.

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

43.

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

Whately, Richard

44.

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

Koch, Edward

45.

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.

46.

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

Pope, Alexander

47.

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

48.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

50.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas