Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

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Best Quotes about Argument

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

Whately, Richard

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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

Joseph Farrell

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

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

Saadi

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

10.

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

Koch, Edward

11.

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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The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

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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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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

15.

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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Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

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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

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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

28.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

29.

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

Proverb

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

33.

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

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

38.

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

Pope, Alexander

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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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When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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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

44.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Voltaire

46.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

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

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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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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

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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