Motivational Quotes

Argument

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

- Hugo, Victor

Best Quotes about Argument

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

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

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

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

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

Adler, Larry

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

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

Voltaire

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Joubert, Joseph

10.

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

G. K. Chesterton

11.

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

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

14.

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

Dennett, Daniel

15.

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

16.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Chinese Proverb

18.

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

Saadi

20.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

24.

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 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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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

28.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

30.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Pope, Alexander

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The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

36.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

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

Joseph Farrell

38.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

39.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

40.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

41.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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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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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

44.

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

Auson

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Publilius Syrus

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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare