Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

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Best Quotes about Argument

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

Pope, Alexander

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

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

Publilius Syrus

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

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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

Voltaire

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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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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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

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When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

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When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

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

Whately, Richard

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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

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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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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

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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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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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The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

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

Auson

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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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Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

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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

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Chinese Proverb

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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

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

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Joseph Farrell

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

Joubert, Joseph