Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Argument

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

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

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

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

Joseph Farrell

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

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

Whately, Richard

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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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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

18.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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

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The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Publilius Syrus

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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

Antisthenes

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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.

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

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

Koch, Edward

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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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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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

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

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

Adler, Larry

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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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

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

Prior, Matthew

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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

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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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