Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

2.

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

Adler, Larry

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

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.

7.

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

8.

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

Voltaire

9.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

10.

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

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.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

13.

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

Auson

14.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

15.

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

16.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

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

18.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

19.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

20.

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

Joseph Farrell

21.

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

22.

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

23.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

24.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

26.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

27.

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

Publilius Syrus

28.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

29.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

Koch, Edward

30.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

31.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

32.

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

33.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

34.

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

Layton, Irving

35.

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

Chinese Proverb

36.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

37.

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

Whately, Richard

38.

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

39.

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

Saadi

40.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

41.

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

Maurois, Andre

42.

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

43.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Sarton, May

44.

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

Antisthenes

45.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

46.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

47.

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

Pope, Alexander

48.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

49.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

50.

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