Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see yourself painting.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

To strive with an equal is dangerous; with a superior, mad; with an inferior, degrading.

To those who think that the law of gravity interferes with their freedom, there is nothing to say.

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

Trump will not respond to reasoned argument. He will not be held accountable for the things he said. All you can do is point and laugh. Because the devil cannot abide mockery.

Ultimately, whether we are writing posts, paragraphs, essays, arguments, memoirs, monographs or even just the Great American Tweet, writing is and should be a grand adventure.

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.

Unlike mathematical theorems, scientific results can't be proved. They can only be tested again and again, until only a fool would not believe them. I cannot prove that electrons exist..........if you don't believe in them I have a high voltage cattle prod I'm willing to apply as an argument on their behalf. Electrons speak for themselves.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

Was not necessity the plea of every illegal exertion of power or exercise of oppression?...Necessity is the plea for very infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

Waste not thy time in windy argument but let the matter drop.

Weakness on both sides is, as we know, the motto of all quarrels.

We are afraid. But fear confirms life and identifies the source of every successful argument - ourselves.

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

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

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 are not won by arguments that we can analyse but by tone and temper, by the manner which is the man himself.

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.

We had an argument once, yeah. It was the best thing that could have happened to our working relationship. After that, we understood each other and got along much better. I always respected Barry Bonds, and I wanted to let him know that I did in a certain way.

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

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

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 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 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.

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

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 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.

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 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 you can prove me wrong, then call me blind.

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