Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

A sense of humor is an important thing to have because when you get into an argument, one of the best ways to diffuse it is to be funny.

As it is a great point of art, when our matter requires it, to enlarge and veer out all sail, so to take it in and contract it is of no less praise when the argument doth ask it.

As I say, if we bring up religion we'll have differences; we'll have arguments; and we'll never be able to get together.

A sophistical rhetorician, inebriated with the exuberance of his own verbosity, and gifted with an egotistical imagination that can at all times command an interminable and inconsistent series of arguments to malign an opponent and to glorify himself.

As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very easily in the minds of a lot Americans feel like, "Now I'm being treated unfairly.

Aspiration sees only one side of every question; possession many.

Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct.

Atheism, I began to realize, rested on a less-than-satisfactory evidential basis. The arguments that had once seemed bold, decisive, and conclusive increasingly turned out to be circular, tentative, and uncertain.

Avoid Arguments Like Rattlesnakes And Earthquakes

Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.

Barring a theoretical resolution, which I think is unlikely, you either have to say there are zillions of parallel universes out there that we can't observe at present or you have to say there was a plan. I actually find the argument of the existence of a God who did the planning more compelling than the bubbling of all these multiverses.

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

But curb thou the high spirit in thy breast, for gentle ways are best, and keep aloof from sharp contentions.

Clear statement is argument.

But, you know, there's still an argument, there's still ten states that outlaw premarital sex, and many more states where adultery is still outlawed and a crime.

Capital punishment is the source of many an argument, both good and bad.

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

But it feels good to love a thing and not expect anything back. It feels good to not get an argument or any pushiness or any rumors or any bullshit. It's love without strings. It's ideal.

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

Compromise in your arguments, not in your expectations.

Conservatives have long argued, correctly, that 'fine-tuning' the economy is a chimera, but that argument seems to have disappeared from the conservative handbook.

Constitutional arguments that seem as dry as dust can have momentous consequences.

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

Don't compliment me in the middle of an argument. It won't make me stammer or blush, and it just makes you look desperate.

Demosthenes, when taunted by Pytheas that all his arguments "smelled of the lamp," replied, "Yes, but your lamp and mine, my friend, do not witness the same labours.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

Even if I was a bad right wing guy, to the extent of whether my arguments are right or wrong, they're right or wrong independently if I'm right or left.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.

Every sermon must have a solid rest in Scripture, and the pointedness which comes of a clear subject, and the conviction which belongs to well-thought argument, and the warmth that proceeds from earnest appeal.

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem.

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

For similar folly, our own country, in the transition from the colonial period, also paid a fearful price; and from a like catastrophe the United States has been twice saved in our time by the arguments formulated by Turgot.

Freud suggests that in order to love someone else, one must love themselves; it's a classic "needs before other needs" argument. Unfortunately, no one really loves themselves . And, if they do, they need to get to know themselves better. Unfortunately, no one is really happy.

Frank was the BOSS and was not open to anything that was not from his head. There were no arguments about music because if you did, he would show you where the door was. Period.

[F]riends praise your abilities to the skies, submit to you in argument, and seem to have the greatest deference for you; but, though they may ask it, you never find them following your advice upon their own affairs; nor allowing you to manage your own.

Gays (homosexuals) usually bring up the argument about all the straight couples living in 'sham' marriages, but I see no point in dragging the Clintons into this

Give no answer to contentious arguments or irresponsible accusations. Let such things "fly out open windows" until they spend themselves.

George W. Bush bought the election - period. End of story. There is no argument. You can try to come up with any argument you can, but there is none.

Goering got into endless arguments with other officers [and] he did not like routine work.