Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

Best Quotes about Argument

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

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

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

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Layton, Irving

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

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

Saadi

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Pope, Alexander

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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

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

G. K. Chesterton

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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

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

18.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

19.

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

Dennett, Daniel

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

22.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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

Adler, Larry

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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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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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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

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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

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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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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

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Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

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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

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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

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

Auson

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Voltaire

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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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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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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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