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

1.

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

2.

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

Voltaire

3.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

4.

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

5.

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

Pope, Alexander

6.

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

7.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

8.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

9.

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

10.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

11.

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

12.

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

Maurois, Andre

13.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

14.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

15.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

16.

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

17.

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

Swift, Jonathan

18.

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

19.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

21.

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

Adler, Larry

22.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

23.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

24.

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

Saadi

25.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

26.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

27.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

28.

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

Prior, Matthew

29.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

30.

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

31.

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

32.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

33.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

34.

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

35.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

36.

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

Chinese Proverb

37.

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

Proverb, Spanish

38.

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

39.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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.

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

42.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

43.

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

Proverb

44.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

45.

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

Auson

46.

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

47.

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

Joubert, Joseph

48.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

49.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

50.

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