Motivational Quotes

Argument

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Argument

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Pope, Alexander

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

10.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

11.

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

G. K. Chesterton

12.

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

13.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

14.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

15.

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

16.

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

Auson

17.

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

18.

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

Prior, Matthew

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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

20.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

21.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

22.

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

23.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

24.

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

25.

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

26.

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

Proverb

27.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

28.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

29.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

30.

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

31.

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

Joseph Farrell

32.

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

Adler, Larry

33.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

34.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

35.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

36.

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

37.

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

Joubert, Joseph

38.

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

Fuller, Thomas

39.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

40.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

41.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

42.

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

43.

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

44.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Saadi

48.

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

Antisthenes

49.

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