Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

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

Adler, Larry

2.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

3.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

4.

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

5.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

6.

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

Whately, Richard

7.

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

Joubert, Joseph

8.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

9.

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

Pope, Alexander

10.

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

11.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

12.

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

13.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

14.

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

15.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

16.

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

17.

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

Dennett, Daniel

18.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

19.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

20.

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

Swift, Jonathan

21.

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

22.

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

Proverb, Spanish

23.

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

Chinese Proverb

24.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

25.

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

26.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

27.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

28.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

29.

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

Layton, Irving

30.

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

Auson

31.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

32.

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

Saadi

33.

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

Maurois, Andre

34.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

35.

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

Pope, Alexander

36.

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

37.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

G. K. Chesterton

40.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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.

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.

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

Voltaire

44.

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

Koch, Edward

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.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

47.

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

48.

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

Proverb

49.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

50.

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

Publilius Syrus