Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Pope, Alexander

Best Quotes about Argument

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

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

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

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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

Proverb

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

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

Adler, Larry

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

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

Voltaire

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

Koch, Edward

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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

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

Swift, Jonathan

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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

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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

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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

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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

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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

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

Dennett, Daniel

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

Antisthenes

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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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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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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

Joubert, Joseph

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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

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

Pope, Alexander

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Maurois, Andre

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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

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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

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

Prior, Matthew

48.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Chinese Proverb

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There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.