Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

Best Quotes about Argument

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

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

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

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

Dennett, Daniel

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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

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

Voltaire

10.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

11.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

13.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

14.

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 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 two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

17.

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

18.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

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Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Auson

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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

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

Prior, Matthew

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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

27.

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

Joseph Farrell

28.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

29.

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

30.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

Proverb

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

38.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

40.

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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The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

42.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

43.

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

G. K. Chesterton

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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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