Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

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

When Jesus got the big questions, he didn't present arguments. He presented himself.

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

When people say "clearly" something that means there's a huge crack in their argument and they know things aren't clear at all.

When sociobiologists start shitting in their backyards with dinner guests in the vicinity, maybe their arguments about innateness over culture will start seeming more persuasive.

When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.

Who is apt, on occasion, to assign a multitude of reasons when one will do? This is a sure sign of weakness in argument.

When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the subject,--for his view of if is generally right on this side,--and admit to him that he is right so far. He will be satisfied with this acknowledgment, that he was not wrong in his judgment, but only inadvertent in not looking at the whole case.

When you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.

Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

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

When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.

When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great deal of the time.

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

Why would scientists dedicated to uncovering the truth about the natural world deliberately misrepresent the work of their own colleagues? Why would they spread accusations with no basis? Why would they refuse to correct their arguments once they had been shown to be incorrect? And why did the press continue to quote them, year after year, even as their claims were shown, one after another, to be false?

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

Without argument the species would parish.

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

You can find justification for slavery in the Bible. Some say this is what the Bible says and that closes the argument.

Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

You can not have an argument with a fully conscious person.

You can't talk about peace nor agreement while terror is used as the main argument.

You could start an argument in an empty house.

You never win an argument until they attack your person.

You don't want to just do a joke because it works - we can make a lot of jokes work - you want to do a joke because it will hopefully build into an argument.

You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount of great stuff to eat in the smallest areas.

You explain right well, and you shew that you understand argument and are not a mere sophist since you accept that which cannot be denied.

You have such strong words at command, that they make the smallest argument seem formidable.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Your assignment,' he bellowed at Kelly, 'was to make a persuasive argument. Demanding to know whether detractors of your position are on crack is not arguing persuasively.

#4. Spend more time considering areas of agreement than disagreement. The doctrines you share with other true believers are the foundational doctrines; the ones you do not share are necessarily less central to the faith. Acknowledging that you and those with whom you disagree will spend eternity together should encourage you to not allow peripheral doctrines to separate you here on earth.

A fight like this was stunning, revealing not just how much he was on the lookout for enemies, but how she too was unable to abandon argument which escalated into rage. Neither of them would back off, they held bitterly to principles. Can't you tolerate people being different, why is this so important? If this isn't important, nothing is. The air seemed to grow thick with loathing. All over a matter that could never be resolved. They went to bed speechless, parted speechless the next morning, and during the day were overtaken by fear - hers that he would never come home, his that when he did she would not be there. Their luck held, however. They came together in the late afternoon pale with contrition, shaking with love, like people who had narrowly escaped an earthquake and had been walking around in naked desolation.

A deep breath is a technique with which we minimize the number of instances where we say what we do not mean … or what we really think.

A good objection helps one forward, a shallow objection, even if it is valid, is wearisome. ... The objection does not seize the matter by its root, where the life is, but so far outside that nothing can be rectified even if it is wrong. A good objection helps directly towards a solution, a shallow one must first be overcome and can, from then on, be left to one side. Just as a tree bends at a knot in the trunk in order to grow on.

All we ever argued about was nothing. As if by multiplying zero content by infinite talk we could make it stop being zero. In order to have sex again we´d had to separate, and in order to have frenzied and complusive sex we´d had to get divorced.

A keen wit stabs harder than a finely honed argument.

All the same, it strikes me as unfair that I still have to defend myself against her moral judgements. My continuing need for her approbation is pathetic. Twice now I have stopped myself on the street to remonstrate with her, a crazy old coot talking to himself.

Almost no one gets into an argument hoping to be proven wrong if they are wrong.

A healthy argument, even with an idiot, is always good; it opens one's eyes to own misunderstandings.

He rejected traditional religious beliefs (Jewish, Christian, and Islamic) not on the basis of any reasoned argument, nor even with an expression of emotional antipathy, for he loved to use religious expressions and metaphors, but simply by saying that they are naive.

All testing, all confirmation and disconfirmation of a hypothesis takes place already within a system. And this system is not a more or less arbitrary and doubtful point of departure for all our arguments: no, it belongs to the essence of what we call an argument. The system is not so much as the point of departure, as the element in which arguments have their life.

An intelligent man will use a book to settle an argument. Preferably a hardback with a thick spine, flat across the bridge of the nose.

A man’s mind is hidden in his writings: criticism brings it to light.