Motivational Quotes

Argument

Debate is the death of conversation.

- Ludwig, Emil

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

2.

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

Proverb, Spanish

3.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

4.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

5.

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

6.

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

7.

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

8.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

9.

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

Publilius Syrus

10.

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

Prior, Matthew

11.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

12.

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

Joubert, Joseph

13.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

14.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

15.

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

Swift, Jonathan

16.

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

17.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

18.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

19.

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

Layton, Irving

20.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

21.

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

22.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

26.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

27.

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

Saadi

28.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

29.

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

Joseph Farrell

30.

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

31.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

32.

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

33.

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

G. K. Chesterton

34.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

35.

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

36.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

37.

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

Joubert, Joseph

38.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

39.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

41.

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

Antisthenes

42.

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

43.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

44.

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

Chinese Proverb

45.

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

46.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

47.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

48.

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

49.

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

50.

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

Whately, Richard