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

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

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

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

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

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

10.

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

Prior, Matthew

11.

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

12.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

13.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

14.

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

15.

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

16.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

17.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

18.

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

Joubert, Joseph

19.

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

Fuller, Thomas

20.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

21.

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

Joubert, Joseph

22.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

23.

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

Layton, Irving

24.

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

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

Swift, Jonathan

26.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

27.

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

Voltaire

28.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

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.

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

Pope, Alexander

31.

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

Adler, Larry

32.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

33.

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

34.

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

Maurois, Andre

35.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

36.

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

G. K. Chesterton

37.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

38.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

39.

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

Saadi

40.

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.

41.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

42.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

43.

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

44.

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

Proverb

45.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

46.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

47.

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

48.

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

49.

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

50.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine