Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

Koch, Edward

2.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

3.

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

Auson

4.

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

Chinese Proverb

5.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

6.

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

Proverb

7.

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

8.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

9.

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

10.

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

11.

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

Dennett, Daniel

12.

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

13.

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

Maurois, Andre

14.

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

Adler, Larry

15.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

16.

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

Voltaire

17.

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

Publilius Syrus

18.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

19.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

20.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

21.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

22.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

23.

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

Friedrich Nietzsche

24.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

25.

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

26.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

27.

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

28.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

29.

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

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

31.

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

32.

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

33.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

34.

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

Joubert, Joseph

35.

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

Proverb, Spanish

36.

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

37.

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

38.

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

39.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

40.

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

41.

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

Pope, Alexander

42.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

43.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

44.

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