Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

My wife was too beautiful for words, but not for arguments.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Neither Pagan nor Mahamedan nor Jew ought to be excluded from the civil rights of the Commonwealth because of his religion. -quoting John Locke's argument.

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?

Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is the best proof in support of your argument. A sermon without a text is an argument without a proof.

One often contradicts an opinion when what is uncongenial is really the tone in which it was conveyed.

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

One of the things I think about with Donald Trump is what are his words actually attached to? With Trump, I'm not sure the words have roots. They are emanations of his psyche, but has he thought it through? Is there an argument, is there a policy implication?

only that which is deeply felt can change us. Rational arguments alone cannot penetrate the layers of fear and conditioning that comprise our crippling belief system.

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

Originally the big argument was that they wanted to call it "raw and uncut" and I told them I had a problem with that. When you say "raw" it implies that my show is dirty and that's not the case.

Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.

Our willingness to openly reveal our feelings in our argument nearly always builds our credibility.

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life.

Philosophic argument, especially that drawn from the vastness of the universe, in comparison with the apparent insignificance of this globe, has sometimes shaken my reason for the faith that is in me; but my heart has always assured and reassured me that

Philosophy has to be enquiring; it can take nothing on faith, and its methods are based not on the blind acceptance of authority, but on establishing truths by reason and argument.

Plato has dramatic strength ... but is quite unaware of the strength of the argument against his position ... and allows himself to be grossly unfair in arguing against it.

Playboy is very easy to work with in the sense that you tell them what you don't want to do-that you don't want to show full breasts or whatever-and there are no arguments about it.

Politically, the weakness of the argument has always been that those who choose the lesser evil forget very quickly that they chose evil.

Power positions do not yield to arguments, however rationally and morally valid, but only to superior power.

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the skeptic.

Prejudice is a great time-saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts. Prejudice not being founded on reason cannot be removed by argument.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. TC mark

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

Ronald Reagan, and before him, Richard Nixon, and before Nixon, a slew of conservative politicians going back through American history, have played to the idea that the great majority of poor people are somehow "undeserving," and being undeserving, merit at best very limited, oftentimes deeply coercive and humiliating, government interventions to better their finances. That narrative isn't about to disappear overnight; but it strikes me as being like a weak gruel - there's no sustenance in it, no heft behind the argument.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

Savory...that's a swell word. And Basil and Betel. Capsicum. Curry. All great. But Relish, now, Relish with a capital R. No argument, that' the best.

Scholarship is polite argument.

Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible, and scientists quote other scientists. How do either scientists or theologians answer this question about the accuracy of their conclusions: “In reference to what?

Scientists are treacherous allies on committees, for they are apt to change their minds in response to arguments.

Scientists often talk of parsimony (as in "the simplest explanation is probably correct," also known as Occam's razor), but we should not get seduced by the apparent elegance of argument from parsimony; this line of reasoning has failed in the past at least as many times as it has succeeded.

Seek to have your life in God, not in things, not in people, not in places, not in circumstances, not in arguments, not in human intelligence, but in God.

Shari'a is not just the Qur'an, you see Shari'a is comprised according to all the doctrines. There's consensus and analogy - argument by analogy. These are the four components in the Shari'a. An orthodox Sunni would not accept that the Shari'a was simply comprised of the Qur'an itself and actually there are people who say that it's heretical to believe that. They have to say that because if they don't say that then they would have to accept that, for example, stoning is not a punishment which appears in the Qur'an - it doesn't.

Sheldon Vanauken wrote that the strongest argument for Christianity is Christians, when they are drawing life from God. The strongest argument against Christianity? Also Christians, when they become exclusive, self-righteous, and complacent.

Silence is one of the hardest kind of arguments to refute. There is no good substitute for wisdom; but silence is the best that has yet been discovered.