Motivational Quotes

Argument

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

- William G. McAdoo

Best Quotes about Argument

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

Auson

There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Dennett, Daniel

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

Chinese Proverb

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

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

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

Fuller, Thomas

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

Koch, Edward

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

Saadi

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Maurois, Andre

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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

12.

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

13.

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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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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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

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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

Proverb, Spanish

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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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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

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

Layton, Irving

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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

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

Voltaire

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

25.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

26.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

27.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

28.

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

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

Adler, Larry

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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

32.

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

34.

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

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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

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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

40.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

42.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

43.

Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.

Proverb

44.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

Whately, Richard

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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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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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