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

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

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

Layton, Irving

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

Proverb

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

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

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

Auson

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

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

G. K. Chesterton

11.

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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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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Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

14.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

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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

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

17.

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

18.

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

19.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

20.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

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

Saadi

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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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

Maurois, Andre

25.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

27.

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

Publilius Syrus

28.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

29.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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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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Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

32.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

33.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

34.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

35.

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

Pope, Alexander

36.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

37.

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

Fuller, Thomas

38.

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

Chinese Proverb

39.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

40.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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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

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

Prior, Matthew

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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

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

Pope, Alexander

45.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

46.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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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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

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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.