Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Joubert, Joseph

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

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.

2.

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

Howe, Edgar Watson

3.

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

Saadi

4.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

5.

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

6.

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

Cicero, Marcus T.

7.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

8.

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

9.

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

Jason Reitman and Christopher Buckly

10.

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

Antisthenes

11.

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

12.

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

Maurois, Andre

13.

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

Voltaire

14.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

William Shakespeare

15.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

Colton, Charles Caleb

16.

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

17.

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

18.

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

Pierre Beaumarchais

19.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

20.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

21.

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

Whately, Richard

22.

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

Dennett, Daniel

23.

When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.

Layton, Irving

24.

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

Proverb, Spanish

25.

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

G. K. Chesterton

26.

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

27.

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

Proverb

28.

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

Haliburton, Thomas C.

29.

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

30.

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

Publilius Syrus

31.

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

32.

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

Pope, Alexander

33.

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

34.

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

Koch, Edward

35.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

36.

Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

37.

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

Pope, Alexander

38.

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

Joubert, Joseph

39.

A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

40.

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

Adler, Larry

41.

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

42.

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

Joseph Farrell

43.

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

44.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

45.

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

46.

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

47.

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

48.

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

Emmons, Nathaniel

49.

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

50.

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