Motivational Quotes

Argument

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

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

2.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

3.

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

4.

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

G. K. Chesterton

5.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

6.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

7.

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

Joubert, Joseph

8.

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

9.

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

10.

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

11.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

12.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Swift, Jonathan

14.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

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

16.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

17.

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

Auson

18.

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

19.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

20.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

21.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

22.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

23.

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

24.

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

25.

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

26.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

27.

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

28.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

29.

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

Saadi

30.

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

Publilius Syrus

31.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

32.

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

Voltaire

33.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

34.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

35.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

36.

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

Antisthenes

37.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

38.

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

Maurois, Andre

39.

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

Fuller, Thomas

40.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

41.

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

Pope, Alexander

42.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

43.

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

44.

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

Pope, Alexander

45.

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

Proverb, Spanish

46.

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

Prior, Matthew

47.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

48.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

49.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

50.

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