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

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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

Whately, Richard

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

Pope, Alexander

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Dennett, Daniel

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

10.

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

Antisthenes

11.

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

12.

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

13.

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

Chinese Proverb

14.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

15.

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

Prior, Matthew

16.

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

Joseph Farrell

17.

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

Swift, Jonathan

18.

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

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.

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

21.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

22.

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

23.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

24.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

25.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

26.

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

Proverb

27.

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

Layton, Irving

28.

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

29.

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

Voltaire

30.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

31.

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.

32.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

33.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

34.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

35.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

36.

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

Saadi

37.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

38.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

39.

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

Pope, Alexander

40.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

41.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

42.

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

43.

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

Proverb, Spanish

44.

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

45.

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

46.

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

47.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

48.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

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When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee