Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

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Best Quotes about Argument

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.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

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

Saadi

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

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Antisthenes

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

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

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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

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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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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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The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Adler, Larry

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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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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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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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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

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When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

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The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

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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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Prior, Matthew

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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

Chinese Proverb

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

G. K. Chesterton

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

Joubert, Joseph

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When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

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

45.

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

Proverb, Spanish

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

Pope, Alexander

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There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

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