Motivational Quotes

Argument

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

- La Fontaine, Jean De

Best Quotes about Argument

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

Saadi

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Antisthenes

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

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

Koch, Edward

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

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

10.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

11.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

13.

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

Adler, Larry

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

18.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Pope, Alexander

22.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

24.

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

Joseph Farrell

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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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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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

32.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

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When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

35.

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

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There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

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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

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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

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

Dennett, Daniel

41.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Voltaire

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

Chinese Proverb

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche