Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Argument

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Publilius Syrus

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Chinese Proverb

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Proverb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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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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Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

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When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

23.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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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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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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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Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

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There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

31.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

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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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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

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Saadi

40.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

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

42.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

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The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Dennett, Daniel

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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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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.