Motivational Quotes

Argument

Soft words win hard hearts.

- Proverb

Best Quotes about Argument

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Joubert, Joseph

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Dennett, Daniel

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

12.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

13.

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

G. K. Chesterton

14.

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

Pope, Alexander

15.

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

Voltaire

16.

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

Saadi

17.

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

18.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

19.

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

20.

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

21.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

22.

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.

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

26.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

27.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

28.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

29.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

30.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

31.

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

32.

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

33.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

34.

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

Maurois, Andre

35.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

36.

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

37.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

38.

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

Chinese Proverb

39.

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

Auson

40.

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

41.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

42.

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

Whately, Richard

43.

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

Swift, Jonathan

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

48.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

49.

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

50.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.