Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

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Best Quotes about Argument

1.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

2.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

3.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

4.

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

5.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

6.

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

Swift, Jonathan

7.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

8.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

12.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

13.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

14.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

15.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

16.

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

Pope, Alexander

17.

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

Layton, Irving

18.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

19.

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

Proverb, Spanish

20.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

21.

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

Koch, Edward

22.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

23.

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

Joubert, Joseph

24.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

26.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

27.

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

28.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

29.

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

30.

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

Auson

31.

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

32.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

33.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

34.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

35.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

36.

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.

37.

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

38.

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

Publilius Syrus

39.

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

40.

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

Proverb

41.

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

42.

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

43.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

44.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

45.

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

Prior, Matthew

46.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

47.

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

48.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

49.

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

Voltaire

50.

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

Fuller, Thomas