Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Whately, Richard

Best Quotes about Argument

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

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

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

Prior, Matthew

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

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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

Chinese Proverb

10.

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

Whately, Richard

11.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

12.

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

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

G. K. Chesterton

15.

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.

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

Pope, Alexander

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Saadi

20.

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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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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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

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

24.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

25.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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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

27.

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

28.

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

29.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

30.

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

Joubert, Joseph

31.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

32.

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

Publilius Syrus

33.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

34.

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

Pope, Alexander

35.

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

Maurois, Andre

36.

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

Adler, Larry

37.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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

39.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

40.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

41.

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

42.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

43.

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

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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

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Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.

Whately, Richard

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

Koch, Edward

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

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