Motivational Quotes

Argument

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

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

2.

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

Voltaire

3.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

4.

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

5.

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

Prior, Matthew

6.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

7.

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.

8.

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

9.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

10.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

11.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

12.

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

13.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

14.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

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

Layton, Irving

16.

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

G. K. Chesterton

17.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

18.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

19.

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

20.

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

Pope, Alexander

21.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

22.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

23.

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

Saadi

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

27.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

28.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

29.

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

Swift, Jonathan

30.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

31.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

32.

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

33.

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

34.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

35.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

36.

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

Pope, Alexander

37.

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

Chinese Proverb

38.

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

39.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

40.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

41.

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

42.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

43.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

44.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

45.

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

46.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

47.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

48.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

49.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.