Motivational Quotes

Argument

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

- Haliburton, Thomas C.

Best Quotes about Argument

Wise men argue cases, fools decide them.

Anacharsis

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the worst sort of reading.

Swift, Jonathan

Debate is the death of conversation.

Ludwig, Emil

The argument of the strongest is always the best.

La Fontaine, Jean De

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

Louis D. Brandeis

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

Antisthenes

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

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

Goldsmith, Oliver

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

Bonaparte, Napoleon

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When all are wrong, everyone is right.

La Lehaussee

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There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development of the contrary qualities. They will not bear discussion.

Acton, Lord

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There's nothing I like less than bad arguments for a view that I hold dear.

Dennett, Daniel

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Most quarrels amplify a misunderstanding.

Gide, Andre

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

Butler, Samuel

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An association of men who will not quarrel with one another is a thing which has never yet existed, from the greatest confederacy of nations down to a town meeting or a vestry.

Jefferson, Thomas

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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.

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

Hailsham, Lord Quintin Hogg

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Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.

Emmons, Nathaniel

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

Joubert, Joseph

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Most of the arguments to which I am party fall somewhat short of being impressive, knowing to the fact that neither I nor my opponent knows what we are talking about

Benchley, Robert

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People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Chesterton, Gilbert K.

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

Adler, Larry

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I had a lovers quarrel with the world.

Frost, Robert

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Weak arguments are often thrust before my path; but although they are most insubstantial, it is not easy to destroy them. There is not a more difficult feat known than to cut through a cushion with a sword.

Whately, Richard

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

Pope, Alexander

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The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments.

Friedrich Nietzsche

27.

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

Layton, Irving

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Soft words win hard hearts.

Proverb

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

Voltaire

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When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

Cicero, Marcus T.

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A long dispute means that both parties are wrong

Voltaire

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

Colton, Charles Caleb

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

Proverb

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Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

Hugo, Victor

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

Pope, Alexander

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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

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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

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

Prior, Matthew

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

Fuller, Thomas

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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

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In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.

Publilius Syrus

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

Nehru, Jawaharlal

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It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

William G. McAdoo

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