Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

Best Quotes about Argument

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Maurois, Andre

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

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

10.

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

Voltaire

11.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

12.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

13.

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

Joseph Farrell

14.

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

15.

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

Pope, Alexander

16.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

18.

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

Adler, Larry

19.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

20.

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

21.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

22.

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

Saadi

23.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

24.

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

25.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

26.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

27.

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

G. K. Chesterton

28.

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

Proverb

29.

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

30.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

31.

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

32.

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

Antisthenes

33.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

34.

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

35.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

Fuller, Thomas

37.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

38.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

39.

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

40.

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

41.

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

Joubert, Joseph

42.

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

43.

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

44.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

45.

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

46.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

47.

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

Proverb, Spanish

48.

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

49.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

50.

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

Whately, Richard