Motivational Quotes

Argument

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Argument

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

Joubert, Joseph

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

Adler, Larry

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

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

Antisthenes

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

Chinese Proverb

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

10.

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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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

12.

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

Proverb

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

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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

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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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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Pope, Alexander

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There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

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The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

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

Auson

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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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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

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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

33.

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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When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

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

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

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

Joubert, Joseph

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When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

44.

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

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

Voltaire

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

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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.

Koch, Edward

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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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Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

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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