Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- G. K. Chesterton

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

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

Prior, Matthew

2.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

3.

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

4.

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

Proverb, Spanish

5.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

6.

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

Auson

7.

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

Dennett, Daniel

8.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

9.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Joubert, Joseph

13.

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

14.

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

15.

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

Publilius Syrus

16.

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

Antisthenes

17.

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

18.

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

19.

There are usually two sides to every argument but no end.

20.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

21.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

22.

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

23.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

24.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

25.

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

Pope, Alexander

26.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

27.

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

Joseph Farrell

28.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

29.

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

Whately, Richard

30.

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

31.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

32.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

33.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

34.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.

Joubert, Joseph

35.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

36.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

39.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

40.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

41.

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

Koch, Edward

42.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

43.

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

44.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

45.

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

Voltaire

46.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

47.

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.

48.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

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

50.

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