Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

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 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.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

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.

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

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

No argument can persuade me to like oysters if I do not like them. In other words, the disturbing thing about matters of taste is that they are not communicable.

No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument all roads eventually lead to.

No blame, no reasoning, no argument, just understanding. If you understand, and you show that you understand, you can love, and the situation will change.

No deeply rooted tendency was ever extirpated by adverse judgment. Not having originally been founded on argument, it cannot be destroyed by logic.

No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God. Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.

Nothing but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

Nothing makes me crazier than the "you gave us Trump" argument based on Hillary Clinton's emails. I didn't set up the private server. I didn't advise her to be decidedly cryptic about the whole thing. I didn't tell the FBI to investigate.

Nothing is more certain than much of the force; as well as grace, of arguments or instructions depends their conciseness.

Nothing requires a greater effort of thought than arguments to justify the rule of non-thought.

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong. -T-Shirt

Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.

Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass?

Now you can begin to see quite transparently that nothing purchased life is one of argument, If other people don't agree with you you're in big trouble. How far would you get in your work if nobody agreed that what you were doing had value?

Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.

Obviously, anyone in contradiction with authority must possess equivalent knowledge and additional fact in order to sustain his argument.

Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable.

Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming, a bit of dramatics. Then an exchange of vows.

Of course poets have morals and manners of their own, and custom is no argument with them.

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing on those disagreements.

Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.

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 could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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