Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Expediency may tip the scales when arguments are nicely balanced.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

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.

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

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.

Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.

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

[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.

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

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

For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.

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.

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.

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

Go beyond science, into the region of metaphysics. Real religion is beyond argument. It can only be lived both inwardly and outwardly.

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

Good and happy people who believe in God are the greatest living arguments for God's existence

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

GRAPESHOT, n. An argument which the future is preparing in answer to the demands of American Socialism.

Great God in Boots! – the ontological argument is sound!

Grasshopper always wrong in argument with chicken.

Great novelists are philosopher novelists - that is, the contrary of thesis-writers.

Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their conclusion.

He always had a chip on his shoulder that he was ready to use to kindle an argument.

Great power constitutes its own argument, and it never has much trouble drumming up friends, applause, sympathetic exegesis, and a band.

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

He draweth out the thread of his verbosity finer than the staple of his argument.

He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself.  (on Craig Bellamy)

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

Hillary Clinton says nobody should be deported that entered illegally unless they commit a violent felony, which is an argument for open borders and American people reject that.

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

However, if you do start crying in an argument and someone asks why, you can always say, 'I'm just crying because of how wrong you are.'

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

Hitler repeatedly stressed that one could not get at the masses with arguments, proofs, and knowledge, but only with feelings and beliefs.

I actually have to consciously stay away from CNN and MSNBC because it will rot my brain and start having me agree with them as they have an argument between the right and the far right while making it seem they are righteous torch-bearers for democracy. Corporate media is insidiously numbing!

How many a dispute could have been deflated into a single paragraph if the disputants had dared to define their terms

Hume develops his arguments by a series of models. He doesn't call them models in the pretentious way in which we envelope, very often, pure banalities in this jargon

I admire the poetic relationship to place as enacted in Wallace Stevens' poems; his poetics strikes me as an argument against the restraints of realism.

I am afeard there are few die well that die in battle, for how can they charitably dispose of anything when blood is their argument?