Motivational Quotes

Argument

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

2.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

3.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

4.

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

5.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

6.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

7.

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

Whately, Richard

8.

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

Proverb, Spanish

9.

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

Layton, Irving

10.

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

Publilius Syrus

11.

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

12.

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

Adler, Larry

13.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

14.

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

Maurois, Andre

15.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

16.

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

Antisthenes

17.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

18.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

19.

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

20.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

21.

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

Saadi

22.

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

Joubert, Joseph

23.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

24.

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

25.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

26.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

27.

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

28.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

29.

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

30.

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

Pope, Alexander

31.

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

32.

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

33.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

34.

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

Pope, Alexander

35.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

36.

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

37.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

38.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

40.

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

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.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

43.

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

44.

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.

45.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

46.

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

Koch, Edward

47.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

48.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.