Motivational Quotes

Argument

Debate is the death of conversation.

- Ludwig, Emil

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

2.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

3.

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

4.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

5.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

6.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

7.

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

Joseph Farrell

8.

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

9.

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

Pope, Alexander

10.

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

11.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

12.

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

Antisthenes

13.

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

14.

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

Proverb, Spanish

15.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

16.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

17.

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

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

20.

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

Proverb

21.

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

Publilius Syrus

22.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

23.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

24.

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

25.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

26.

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

27.

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

Joubert, Joseph

28.

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

Layton, Irving

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.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

31.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

32.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

33.

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

Joubert, Joseph

34.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

35.

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

Maurois, Andre

36.

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

G. K. Chesterton

37.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

38.

True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

Pope, Alexander

39.

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

Whately, Richard

40.

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

Auson

41.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

42.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

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

44.

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

45.

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

Voltaire

46.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

47.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

48.

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