Argument Quotes

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you’re afraid of them.

Argument is meant to reveal the truth, not to create it.

I think it’s important to reason from first principles rather than by analogy. The normal way we con...

You shall not leave me in that temper.I should be miserable all night, and I won’t be miserable for ...

Those who invalidate reason, ought seriously to consider, 'whether they argue against reason, with o...

If I hurt your feelings we ought to discuss it. I don't like this kiss-and-forget.''But I don't want...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

Atheism leaves a man to sense, to philosophy, to natural piety, to laws, to reputation; all which ma...

My dad shaped the footballing side of me, and Mum shaped me as a person. I've always been very close...

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

There are answers which, in turning away wrath, only send it to the other end of the room, and to ha...

Fighting is found everywhere in the animal kingdom and nowhere so much as among human animals. Anima...

It is often argued that religion is valuable because it makes men good, but even if this were true i...

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of t...

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look lik...

When you lay down a proposition which is forthwith controverted, it is of course optional with you t...

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor o...

Rights begin where love ends. Shall we argue over who is the most to blame?

I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical...

A pleasant morning. Saw my classmates Gardner, and Wheeler. Wheeler dined, spent the afternoon, and ...

I later spent... five to eight months in hospitals in New Jersey, always on an involuntary basis, an...

The argument that someone is a bad man is an inadequate argument for war and certainly an inadequate...

Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conscience, above all libert...

When (an advocate) is not thoroughly acquainted with the real strength and weakness of his cause, he...

Arguments out of a petty mouth are unanswerable.

He who wants to persuade should put his trust not in the right argument, but in the right word. The ...

It seemed to him there was never much time with women. Before you could look at one twice, you were ...

He disliked contradiction, and still more, arguments that were continually skipping from one thing t...

The business of art lies just in this, -- to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an ...

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence he is just u...

When Bishop Berkeley said "there was no matter " And proved it - 'twas no matter what he said.

Many can argue not many converse.

You and I both know that love is for children,'' he said. ''We're adults. Compatibility is for adult...

I'm sorry to say that the subject I most disliked was mathematics. I have thought about it. I think ...

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's no...

Care to explain?” Ari asked.“Didn’t you see my signals?”“Yeah. But they didn’t make sense. Five into...

Well, there was a sort of bastard justice in his view of the case, and so I dropped the matter. When...

She had been in situations like this, where people said, Convince me, and in none of those had they ...

I find I am much prouder of the victory I obtain over myself, when, in the very ardor of dispute, I ...

All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgement...

They weren't making much sense; she decided they were having an argument as old and comfortable as a...

Myself when young did eagerly frequent Doctor and Saint and heard great argument About it and about...

When people agree with me I always feel that I must be wrong.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that...

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned a...

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

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

Definitions are the foundation of reason. You can’t reason without them.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge an argument an exchange of ignorance.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to mak...

I have, as it were, constructed a lay-figure for the purposes of a demonstration which I desired to ...

At this point it may be objected: well, then, if even the crabbed sceptics admit that the statements...

The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reas...

A half truth, like half a brick, is always more forcible as an argument than a whole one. It carries...

A novel is an impression, not an argument; and there the matter must rest.

They argued because they liked argument, liked the swift run of the unfettered mind along the paths ...

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

It is clear that the individual who persecutes a man, his brother, because he is not of the same opi...

Every argument for Negro suffrage is an argument for women's suffrage.

Any woman who is sure of her own wits, is a match, at any time, for a man who is not sure of his own...

No sensible man ever engages, unprepared, in a fencing match of words with a woman.

It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his g...

Right is not right; so is not so. If right were really right, it would differ so clearly from not ri...

When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unab...

PRESIDENT BARTLETT: "See how benevolent I can be when everybody just does what I tell them.

A fight like this was stunning, revealing not just how much he was on the lookout for enemies, but h...

Wise men argue causes and fools decide them.

I'm a writer by profession and it's totally clear to me that since I started blogging, the amount I ...

You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. ...

Proctor: I am only wondering how I may prove what she told me, Elizabeth. If the girl's a saint now,...

The absence of even rough agreement on the facts puts every opinion on equal footing and therefore e...

There's a wonderful, perhaps apocryphal story that people tell about Daniel Patrick Moynihan, the br...

Most errors consist only in our not rightly applying names to things. For when someone says that the...

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments but not with comprehension.

When two men of science disagree, they do not invoke the secular arm; they wait for further evidence...

When a man who is drinking neat gin starts talking about his mother he is past all argument.

By the very act of arguing, you awake the patient's reason; and once it is awake, who can foresee th...

If someone tells me that I've hurt their feelings, I say, 'I'm still waiting to hear what your point...

Many things in this period have been hard to bear, or hard to take seriously. My own profession went...

There can be no progress without head-on confrontation.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, t...

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

Keep cool anger is not an argument.

Truth springs from argument amongst friends.

Disputes with men, pertinaciously obstinate in their principles, are, of all others, the most irksom...