Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself.  (on Craig Bellamy)

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

Hillary Clinton says nobody should be deported that entered illegally unless they commit a violent felony, which is an argument for open borders and American people reject that.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'

I actually have to consciously stay away from CNN and MSNBC because it will rot my brain and start having me agree with them as they have an argument between the right and the far right while making it seem they are righteous torch-bearers for democracy. Corporate media is insidiously numbing!

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

I am the eternal optimist. I think that, over time, people respond to civility and -- and rational argument.

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?

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

I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because I wish to avoid the endless arguments some other name would bring forth.

I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the roles.

I consider the coke a major cause. Of course, you could also make the argument that because cocaine speeds up the heart, it's good for you.

I didn't particularly feel like being arrested, so I argued with the soldiers a bit. Several of them died during the argument - those things happen once in a while. Unfortunately, one of the casualties was Taur Urgas' oldest son. The king of the Murgos took it personally. He's very narrow-minded sometimes. - Silk

I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.

I decided that I would make my life my argument.

I didn't respond, because naked people never win arguments.

I do not see that the sex of the candidate is an argument against her admission as a Privatdozent. After all, the Senate is not a bathhouse. Objecting to sex discrimination being the reason for rejection of Emmy Noether's application to join the faculty at the University of Gottingen.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

I don't believe it. Prove it to me and I still won't believe it.

I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.

I don't have a 'side'—I'm responsible for what I say and nothing else.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

I don't want to get into an argument with somebody about how they ought to vote.

I dropped out of high school when I was 16, after I had a huge argument with my English teacher over the meaning of the word 'existentialism.'

I don't write about certain arguments I have with my wife. I'd get my head torn off if wrote about certain things.

I'd say honesty is always the best policy. There are always a lot of arguments - but even if honesty starts some, it avoids bigger ones.

I feel as if dystopian and utopian representations are historically the most effective way of criticizing modern society. You know, because you don't have to be factually accurate. You can kind of construct some awesome strawman arguments in your fictional world.

If Clinton somehow pulls out a win in both states, then she has an excellent argument to make to the superdelegates: Voters still respond to fear. Obama's campaign has been based on the implicit argument that voters no longer respond to fear. If Clinton wins both states, that probably proves Obama wrong on that point.

If Christ is the wisdom of God and the power of God in the experience of those who trust and love Him, there needs no further argument of His divinity.

If I had an argument with a player we would sit down for twenty minutes, talk about it and then decide I was right!

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

If opponents of all important truths do not exist, it is indispensable to imagine them and supply them with the strongest arguments which the most skillful devil's advocate can conjure up.

If Rand Paul is going to go anywhere, he is going to have to expand it beyond merely this argument about where we put troops and don`t put troops and make it both a generational argument and a change argument. And he`s got a chance to do that.

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

If the central contest of the twentieth century has pitted capitalism against socialism, then F. A. Hayek has been its central figure. He helped us to understand why capitalism won by a knockout. It was Hayek who elaborated the basic argument demonstrating that central planning was nothing else but an impoverishing fantasy.

If that were a winning argument, Donald Trump could get anybody off the bench on his cases by just something deeply offensive based on their background.