Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do.

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Multitudes of words are neither an argument of clear ideas in the writer, nor a proper means of conveying clear notions to the reader.

My argument is: keep the bloody bottom line at the bottom. That's where it should be.

My argument is not that I shouldn't have been punished, but that the punishment didn't fit the crime.

My argument has always been that this is not an anti-Bush film, it's a pro-democracy film. And if George W.Bush comes out on the wrong side of democracy, that's his problem.

My candidacy is a compelling argument for my candidacy. I want to be President.

My dad, the old professor, used to say, 'Never get into an argument about what's folk music and what isn't.'

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

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

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.

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.

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

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

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

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.

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.

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 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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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?

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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.