Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

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Best Quotes about Argument

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

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

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

Antisthenes

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

Prior, Matthew

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

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Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

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

Layton, Irving

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There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

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The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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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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The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

24.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

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

Saadi

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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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

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

Pope, Alexander

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When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

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

Publilius Syrus

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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

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

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

Proverb

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

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Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

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

Pope, Alexander

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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

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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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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