Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Howe, Edgar Watson

Best Quotes about Argument

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

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

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

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

Antisthenes

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

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

Maurois, Andre

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

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

Proverb

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

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Auson

12.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

15.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

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

G. K. Chesterton

17.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

18.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

19.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

23.

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

Whately, Richard

24.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

25.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

26.

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

27.

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

Koch, Edward

28.

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

Dennett, Daniel

29.

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

30.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

31.

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

Chinese Proverb

32.

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

Voltaire

34.

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

Prior, Matthew

35.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

36.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

37.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

38.

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

39.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

40.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

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

Joubert, Joseph

45.

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

46.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

47.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

48.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

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