Motivational Quotes

Argument

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

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

Whately, Richard

2.

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

Pope, Alexander

3.

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

4.

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

5.

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

6.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

7.

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

Adler, Larry

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.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

10.

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

Joubert, Joseph

11.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

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

13.

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

Fuller, Thomas

14.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

15.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

16.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

17.

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

G. K. Chesterton

18.

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

Antisthenes

19.

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

20.

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

Pope, Alexander

21.

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

22.

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

Voltaire

23.

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

24.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

25.

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.

26.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

27.

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

28.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

29.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

30.

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

31.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

32.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

33.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

34.

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

35.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

36.

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

37.

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

Saadi

38.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

39.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

40.

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