Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

We like people who are honest. Honest in argument, honest with clients, honest with suppliers, honest with the company - and above all, honest with consumers.

We make out of the quarrel with others, rhetoric, but of the quarrel with ourselves, poetry.

We should not accept moral nihilism unless we find strong arguments to do so.

What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating our pleasure we have more.

We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist and whom you don't. We need to delink terrorism from religion - to isolate terrorists who use this interchange of arguments between terrorism and religion.

What interests me in [Lincoln in the Bardo] is a slight perverse balance between the sublime and the grotesque. Like you could have landed only on the sublime. But my argument is that the sublime couldn't exist without this other half.

What corporations fear most are consumers who ask questions. Naomi Klein offers us the arguments with which to take on the superbrands.

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

What we've been hearing over and over again is that the reason Republicans are opposed to the surtax is because of the concern of its impact on job creation. Well, if you carve out employers, you take away that argument.

What I've learnt is when you walk into a family argument and people tell you it's about principle don't get involved. There is more to life than principles.

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don’t see it, because we see with it.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

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

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

When a person begins to yell during an argument, it is a tip-off that he is unsure of himself.

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.

Whenever my mother talks to me, she begins the conversation as if we were already in the middle of an argument.

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

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 [Erwin Schrödinger] went to the Solvay conferences in Brussels, he would walk from the station to the hotel where the delegates stayed, carrying all his luggage in a rucksack and looking so like a tramp that it needed a great deal of argument at the reception desk before he could claim a room.

When every one of your arguments is characterized an attempt to bring back slavery or resegregate lunch counters, it's a little hard to have any sort of productive debate.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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?

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

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

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

Without argument the species would parish.

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

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

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.

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

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

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

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

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

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

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