Argument Quotes · Page 13

An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.

— Ibycus

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

— William Henry Harrison

The daughter of debate That still discord doth sow.

— Elizabeth I

Arguments, like men are often pretenders

— Plato

Lose the argument. Not the person.

— Anonymous

“Nothing firms up a friendship like a good-natured argument.”

— Lemony Snicket

No, you're right. said no girl in an argument ever.

— Unkown

Empty is the argument of the philosopher which does not relieve any human suffering.

— Epicurus

One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.

— Andy Stanley

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

— Thomas Jefferson

A good symbol is the best argument, and is a missionary to persuade thousands.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Successful argument is a communication between the acknowledged authority of both parties to the argument.

— Gerry Spence

To leave a man's ego bigger, retweet him. To leave his faculty of reasoning better, challenge his tweet.

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in…

— John Mortimer

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

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

People read legal writing differently. When you're at the crux of a legal argument, every step is a step in the argument.…

— William Lashner

“In an argument, a “teller” will frequently remind you of how well they treat you, even after blatantly hurting you. A “show-er”…

— Jackson MacKenzie

A lot of conservative writers have twisted that argument in the conversation around Judge [Gonzalo] Curiel and said this is identity politics…

— Dahlia Lithwick

No one appreciates a professional anymore. Everyone's a mystic. Which is why I take drunk Jim over acid Jim - the argument…

— Dan Bejar

“If you aspire to be truly open-minded, you can’t just try to see the other side of an argument. That’s not enough.…

— Chuck Klosterman

The strangest thing about the low quality of Internet argument is that effective argument isnt really so difficult. Sure, not everyone can…

— Barry Eisler

Gun control advocates used to claim that more guns meant more crime. Research demonstrated, though, that more guns meant less crime. As…

— Steven Milloy

Even in the Senate, I'd put up any of the stories we did against any pablum Time or Newsweek has put out…

— Marc Morano

Even those who identify themselves as libertarians follow an overtly anti-rationalist philosophy, as even a brief acquaintance with the work of Friedrich…

— Philip E. Agre

I do not overlook the fact that there are irrationalists who love mankind, and that not all forms of irrationalism engender criminality.…

— Karl Popper

Here is how you know someone has had a good idea: Other people freely admit to their friends that said idea has…

— Kevin Hearne

“Error in opinion has this peculiar advantage with it, that the foremost point of the contrary ground may at any time be…

— Thomas Paine

It is not how we breed, keep and kill animals for human consumption that has been the impetus for vegetarianism for thousands…

— Colleen Patrick-Goudreau

The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principals. Nor is it offered as a philosophy of life.…

— Massey H. Shepherd

What's a problem with India, in particular, is female feticide - aborting a female fetus. It is unacceptable and illegal, but it…

— Barbara Crossette

The Silly Putty-like malleability of the institution [marriage], in fact, is the only reason we still have the thing at all. Very…

— Elizabeth Gilbert

Beware of long arguments and long beards.

— George Santayana

Arguments can always be found to turn desire into policy.

— Anonymous

It's better to lose the argument than to lose the relationship.

— Anonymous

The truth is always the strongest argument.

— Sophocles

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

— Samuel Johnson

Arguments are too much like disputes.

— Jane Austen

Your argument is sound, nothing but sound.

— Benjamin Franklin

[Flürscheim] was good at unanswerable arguments.

— Christopher Kelk Ingold