Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

2.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

3.

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

4.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

5.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

6.

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

Pope, Alexander

7.

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

8.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

9.

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

Saadi

10.

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

11.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

12.

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

Fuller, Thomas

13.

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

Whately, Richard

14.

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

15.

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

16.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Antisthenes

20.

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

Pope, Alexander

21.

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

22.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

23.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

24.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

25.

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

Auson

26.

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

Proverb

27.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

28.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

29.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

30.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

31.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

32.

An argument is like a country road, you never know where it is going to lead.

33.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

34.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

35.

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

Proverb, Spanish

36.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

37.

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

38.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

39.

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

Publilius Syrus

40.

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

Maurois, Andre

41.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

42.

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

Layton, Irving

43.

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

Swift, Jonathan

44.

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

45.

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

Dennett, Daniel

46.

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

Joubert, Joseph

47.

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

48.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

49.

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

50.

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