Argument Quotes · Page 18

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

— Anonymous

A smart statement for changing your life: Never raise your voice...Just improve the quality of your argument. Then see the difference!

— Anonymous

Indeed, in Russia there is a terrible poverty of facts, and a terrible abundance of reflections of all sorts.

— Anton Chekhov

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

— Cullen Hightower

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

— Susan Griffin

The power of large corporations is still a scourge on the earth, but at least the arguments supporting them are undermined now.

— Rebecca Solnit

Liberals want Conservatives to shut up. Conservatives want Liberals to keep talking. Because our arguments make sense and theirs don't

— Bill Whittle

Be a man, one who avoids confrontation. Even if that means taking the 'L' in an argument..

— Raghib Clitso

I hate this argument that says little Britain or something outside, or Britain is part of a wider Europe. We can both…

— Iain Duncan Smith

There's been this argument about Coldplay stealing this melody from Joe Satriani, but, if you listen to it, it's mine! It's the…

— Cat Stevens

I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into…

— Jonathan Krohn

Research consistently shows that the risks to health outweigh the benefits of drinking alcohol. My argument is that the benefits to my…

— Graeme Simsion

A review was published in Nature, very scathing, essentially calling me incompetent, though they didn't use that word. I am putting a…

— Bjorn Lomborg

You have an impeccable argument if you said that Singapore, Hong Kong, and Tokyo are food capitals. They have a maximum amount…

— Anthony Bourdain

“What seems to be proved may not be embraced; but what no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational…

— Austin Farrer

That's not a convincing argument. Public sector jobs are cyclical. Teachers get fired when money is tight, then rehired when things get…

— Hanna Rosin

In the French culture, they talk politics. I didn't find it was part of our culture to have political arguments at the…

— Kim Raver

Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that…

— Thomas Nagel

It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind…

— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj

You can make a very good argument that society would be much worse off if you let 10 rapists and murderers free…

— Jonah Goldberg

University presidents should be loud and forceful in defending the university as a social good, essential to the democratic culture and economy…

— Henry Giroux

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they…

— Carl Sagan

There has been a controversy started of late, much better worth examination, concerning the general foundation of Morals; whether they be derived…

— David Hume

The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which…

— Arthur Koestler

The trial lawyer does what Socrates was executed for: making the worse argument appear the stronger.

— Irving Kaufman

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

— Margaret Heffernan

Forget the Bible, the greatest argument against human evolution is a YouTube comment thread.

— Damien Fahey

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

— Alexander Pope

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

— Victor Serge

When parents say 'Because I said so.' you know you made a good argument.

— Anonymous

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

— Jim Fowler

Change happens not just by giving the mind new arguments but also by feeding the imagination new beauties

— Timothy Keller

Red lines are kind of political arguments that are used to try to put people in a corner.

— Leon Panetta

I'd like to see the argument made for greater worldwide federalism, not just the European Union.

— Ben Miller

There are all kinds of stupid people that annoy me but what annoys me most is a lazy argument.

— Christopher Hitchens

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.

— Robert F. Almeder

An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.

— Ravi Zacharias

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

— Isaac Watts

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

— Richard Dawkins

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?

— Ray Combs