Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

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 but free argument, raillery and even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

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

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 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.

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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

Oratory is the power of beating down your adversary's arguments and putting better in their place.

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.

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 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?

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.

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

Pain is unjust, and all the arguments That cannot soothe it only rouse suspicion.

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

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does it well and triumphs.

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.

Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.

Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get lost in abstract arguments inside my head instead of simply paying attention to what's going on right in front of me. TC mark

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

Public discourse requires making an argument for a point of view, not having an argument - as in having a fight.

Pythias once, scoffing at Demosthenes, said that his arguments smelt of the lamp.

Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever.

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

Ronald Reagan, and before him, Richard Nixon, and before Nixon, a slew of conservative politicians going back through American history, have played to the idea that the great majority of poor people are somehow "undeserving," and being undeserving, merit at best very limited, oftentimes deeply coercive and humiliating, government interventions to better their finances. That narrative isn't about to disappear overnight; but it strikes me as being like a weak gruel - there's no sustenance in it, no heft behind the argument.

Remember when we was young, everybody used to have these arguments about who's better, Michael Jackson or Prince? Prince won!

Respect for the dignity of others includes treating them as rational creatures capable of being persuadad by rational argument, even in the face of frequent evidence to the contrary.

Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at the stake.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.