Motivational Quotes

Argument

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

- Chesterton, Gilbert K.

Best Quotes about Argument

1.

The argument is at an end.

Saint Augustine

2.

I will name you the degrees. The first, the Retort Courteous; the second, the Quip Modest; the third, the Reply Churlish; the fourth, the Reproof Valiant; the fifth, the Countercheck Quarrelsome; the sixth, the Lie with Circumstance; the seventh, the Lie Direct.

Shakespeare, William

3.

When two quarrel, both are in the wrong.

4.

An argument is like a country road, you never know where it is going to lead.

5.

I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

6.

The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.

G. K. Chesterton

7.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

8.

Whenever you argue with another wiser than yourself in order that others may admire your wisdom, they will discover your ignorance.

Saadi

9.

Soft words are hard arguments.

Fuller, Thomas

10.

No matter what side of the argument you are on, you always find people on your side that you wish were on the other.

Jascha Heifetz

11.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Ayn Rand

12.

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

13.

When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

14.

There are usually two sides to every argument but no end.

15.

It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle it without debate.

Joubert, Joseph

16.

Quarrels often arise in marriages when the bridal gifts are excessive.

Auson

17.

He who strikes the first blow admits he's lost the argument.

Chinese Proverb

18.

It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.

Pierre Beaumarchais

19.

The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.

Joubert, Joseph

20.

The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

21.

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

22.

Argument is conclusive... but... it does not remove doubt, so that the mind may rest in the sure knowledge of the truth, unless it finds it by the method of experiment. For if any man who never saw fire proved by satisfactory arguments that fire burns. his hearer's mind would never be satisfied, nor would he avoid the fire until he put his hand in it that he might learn by experiment what argument taught.

Bacon, Roger

23.

Those disputing, contradicting, and confuting people are generally unfortunate in their affairs. They get victory, sometimes, but they never get good will, which would be of more use to them.

Franklin, Benjamin

24.

True disputants are like true sportsman: their whole delight is in the pursuit.

Pope, Alexander

25.

The purely agitation attitude is not good enough for a detailed consideration of a subject.

Nehru, Jawaharlal

26.

When good people have a falling out, only one of them may be at fault at first; but if the strife continues long, usually both become guilty.

Fuller, Thomas

27.

Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.

Proverb

28.

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

Layton, Irving

29.

Quarrels would not last so long if the fault lay only on one side.

La Rochefoucauld, Francois De

30.

The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.

Adler, Larry

31.

There is no good in arguing with the inevitable. The only argument available with an east wind is to put on your overcoat.

Lowell, James Russell

32.

The most important thing in an argument, next to being right, is to leave an escape hatch for your opponent, so that he can gracefully swing over to your side without too much apparent loss of face.

Harris, Sidney J.

33.

The difficult part in an argument is not to defend one's opinion, but rather to know it.

Maurois, Andre

34.

Concerning God, freewill and destiny: Of all that earth has been or yet may be, all that vain men imagine or believe, or hope can paint or suffering may achieve, we descanted.

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

35.

Hear one side and you will be in the dark. Hear both and all will be clear.

Haliburton, Thomas C.

36.

I tell you Wellington is a bad general, the English are bad soldiers; we will settle this matter by lunch time.

Bonaparte, Napoleon

37.

If you argue with a woman and win, you lose.

38.

Never contend with one that is foolish, proud, positive, testy, or with a superior, or a clown, in matter of argument.

Fuller, Thomas

39.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Whately, Richard

40.

There is no point in arguing about matters of taste.

41.

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

Voltaire

42.

I learned an important lesson in the art of debate. Present your argument clearly, arm yourself with cutting wit and of course, bob and weave!

Takayuki Ikkaku, Arisa Hosaka and Toshihiro Kawabata

43.

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for ones self-respect to be a punching bag.

Koch, Edward

44.

Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

45.

There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.

Goldsmith, Oliver

46.

If you go in for argument, take care of your temper. Your logic, if you have any, will take care of itself.

Joseph Farrell

47.

It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.

Sarton, May

48.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

Butler, Samuel

49.

We must not contradict, but instruct him that contradicts us; for a madman is not cured by another running mad also.

Antisthenes

50.

With reasonable men I will reason; with humane men I will plea; but to tyrants I will give no quarter, nor waste arguments where they will certainly be lost.

William Lloyd Garrison