Motivational Quotes

Argument

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

- William Shakespeare

Best Quotes about Argument

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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

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

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

Joubert, Joseph

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

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

Saadi

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

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

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

Whately, Richard

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

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

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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

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

Chinese Proverb

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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

Adler, Larry

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

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Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

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

Pope, Alexander

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

Publilius Syrus

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

Joubert, Joseph

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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

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The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

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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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The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

32.

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

Fuller, Thomas

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There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

34.

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

Antisthenes

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

Dennett, Daniel

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

Proverb

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

Swift, Jonathan

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

Auson

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

Proverb, Spanish

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Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

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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

44.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

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Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

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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

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Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

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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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Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil