Motivational Quotes

Argument

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

- Voltaire

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

2.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

3.

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

4.

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

Publilius Syrus

5.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

6.

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

7.

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

Antisthenes

8.

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

9.

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

Joseph Farrell

10.

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

Fuller, Thomas

11.

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

12.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

13.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

14.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

15.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

16.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

17.

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

Koch, Edward

18.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

19.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

20.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

21.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

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

Layton, Irving

24.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

25.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

26.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

27.

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

Adler, Larry

28.

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

29.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

30.

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

31.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

32.

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

Maurois, Andre

33.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

34.

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

Joubert, Joseph

35.

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

36.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

37.

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.

38.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

39.

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

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.

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

Whately, Richard

42.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

43.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

44.

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

Pope, Alexander

45.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

46.

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

47.

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

Saadi

48.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

49.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

50.

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