Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Pierre Beaumarchais

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

2.

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

3.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

4.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

5.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

6.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

7.

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

8.

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.

9.

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

Layton, Irving

10.

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

Adler, Larry

11.

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

Proverb

12.

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

Joseph Farrell

13.

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

Publilius Syrus

14.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

15.

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

16.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

17.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

18.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

19.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

20.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

21.

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

22.

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

23.

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

Prior, Matthew

24.

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

25.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

28.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

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

32.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

33.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

34.

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

35.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

36.

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

37.

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

38.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

39.

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

Dennett, Daniel

40.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

44.

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

Auson

45.

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

46.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.