Best 867 quotes in «argument quotes» category

I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing argument to the contrary.

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be socialists as well.

In a false quarrel there is no true valor.

In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou wilt fight him in his own country.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

In argument about moral problems, relativism is the first refuge of the scoundrel.

In argument with men a woman ever Goes by the worse, whatever be her cause.

In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.

Inclination snatches arguments To make indulgence seem judicious choice.

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

I never saw an instance of one or two disputants convincing the other by argument.

In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about foreign policy or the Red Sox.

In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.

In excess altercation, truth is lost.

In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism.

In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing with general principles, he must furnish particular instances of their application.

In reasoning upon moral subjects, we have great occasion for candor, in order to compare circumstances, and weigh arguments with impartiality.

In science , all conclusions are provisional, subject to new evidence and better arguments, the very antithesis of religious faith.

Insight makes argument ridiculous.

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

Intelligence is measured by a person's ability to see validity within both sides of contradicting arguments.

In the context of the kind of infrastructure space I'm looking at, I'm making a very unlikely argument by saying that all the stuff that's repeated, from spatial products to whole cities, which looks so daunting to architects, might be especially empowering. At this moment, it might be harder to make a meaningful object form alone, but easier to make an active form that can piggyback on those multipliers to recondition spaces in a politically significant way.

In the middle ages of Christianity opposition to the State opinions was hushed. The consequence was, Christianity became loaded with all the Romish follies. Nothing but free argument, raillery & even ridicule will preserve the purity of religion.

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

In too many marriage conflicts, we work too hard at winning the argument and too little at winning the heart.

Invariably, it is this for which I write: the joy ... of an argument firmly made, like a nail straightly driven, its head flush to the plank.

In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments.

I really think that everything that's known about Hillary has been dissected, rehashed. For some people that is an argument that she would be the better candidate against McCain.

I passionately believe that's it's not just what you say that counts, it's also how you say it - that the success of your argument critically depends on your manner of presenting it.

I suppose it's unfair, tricks of argument that leave wounds, but with this sort of thing that (C.S.) Lewis does, what I feel is a craftsman's joy at the sight of a superior performance.

I shall not make an argument ad hominem. My argument is ad bullshitem.

I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions, otherwise I don't believe it.

I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.

I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover a lot of terrain psychically and temporally and linguistically via metaphor, and that can be a stand-in for an argument, whereas in prose, you have to make the argument, and you have to be convincing because the sequence must make sense in time and purpose.

It is a mistake to think that programmers wares are programs. Programmers have to produce trustworthy solutions and present it in the form of cogent arguments. Programs source code is just the accompanying material to which these arguments are to be applied to.

It is a maxim received in life that, in general, we can determine more wisely for others than for ourselves. The reason of it is so dear in argument that it hardly wants the confirmation of experience.

It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.

I thought we would be concerned if he knew how to stay on message, if [Donald] Trump knew how to make the most of an argument against Secretary [Hillary] Clinton, by using some of the things that have been put on the news.

It is a seldom proffered argument as to the advantages of a free press that it has a major function in keeping the government itself informed as to what the government is doing.

It is difficult to be emphatic when no one is emphatic on the other side.

It is fairly clear that many of the arguments against proposition testing are really arguments against propositions themselves.

It is not a sensible or intelligent response for us in Europe to ridicule American arguments and parody their political leadership.

It is not who is right, but what is right, that is of importance.

It is one thing to persuade, another to command; one thing to press with arguments, another with penalties.

It is senseless to argue with someone whose sole purpose in life is to not be convinced of anything.

It is the briefest yet wisest maxim which tells us to meddle not.

It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

It must be that there is something in the hearts of human beings, some natural fluid perhaps, that insists on happiness, even confronted with the most powerful arguments against it.

I told Kate I didn't love her in an argument. But I do! Those heated moments are the worst, because that's when you can do the most damage. And they're bad, because you always hit them in the spot where you know it hurts.

It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.