Argument Quotes · Page 20

You certainly wouldn’t want to invest much time in an argument with someone who would believe it in the first place.

— Peter van Inwagen

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

— Charles Dudley Warner

Because of Facebook I never miss an argument, know when there's gonna be a fight and when people break up.

— Anonymous

She is so stubborn, her heart has an argument with her head every time it wants to beat.

— Catherynne M. Valente

Arguments hardly affect the faithful- their beliefs have an entirely different foundation.

— Paul Feyerabend

History is a long and endlessly interesting argument, where evidence is everything and storytelling is everything else.

— Jill Lepore

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

— Ayn Rand

You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.

— Charlie Munger

Perhaps the most common argument against the advocates of cancel culture is that they're lame and uncreative - and I think they…

— Kat Timpf

If you pick up an eighteenth-century play, at the top it says 'The Argument,' and then you have a list of characters,…

— Damian Lewis

“When people fight about something, the subject of the argument is rarely the real issue. The real issue is about vulnerability, connectedness,…

— Shawn Kent Hayashi

Justice Scalia was usually particularly challenging to me at oral argument, but I so respected his intellect and commitment to the pursuit…

— Neal Katyal

Their argument is that most shows are losers, which is true, but it's also disingenuous to say, 'We are not going to…

— Dick Wolf

The capacity to make free choices is not something we either have entirely or not at all. Rather, choices become freer the…

— Julian Baggini

I'd be perfectly happy never to have to answer anything again about how I work with Ethan, or whether we have arguments,…

— Joel Coen

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth…

— Ann Coulter

There's a young Danish guy who has done a lot of work from an evolutionary perspective, Mathias Clasen. Basically, his argument is…

— Brian Boyd

To borrow from Mark Twain, I tend to think that reports of the death of supervaluationist approaches have been greatly exaggerated. The…

— Richard F. Heck

Carob is a brown powder made from the pulverized fruit of a Mediterranean evergreen. Some consider carob an adequate substitute for chocolate…

— Sandra Boynton

We should pass the U.N.'s Comprehensive Convention on International Terrorism. At least it will clearly establish whom you view as a terrorist…

— Narendra Modi

A competitive threat is not the same thing as an antitrust violation… It is difficult to make out FairSearch’s precise antitrust arguments.…

— Peter Gallagher

When we would show any one that he is mistaken, our best course is to observe on what side he considers the…

— Blaise Pascal

There is indeed something deeply wrong with a person who lacks principles, who has no moral core. There are, likewise, certainly values…

— Anonymous

“But to me, the argument is just semantics, an exercise in mental masturbation. True, Degas painted neither plein air nor spontaneously, but…

— Barbara A. Shapiro

An argument is always about what has been made more important than the relationship.

— Hugh Prather

Most people see no reason to stop arguing just because an issue has been decided.

— Mason Cooley

Sometimes when we fight with those we love, it is not victory that we seek, but peace.

— Mercy Pheona

To know all is to understand all, and this leaves no room for judgement and condemnation.

— Clarence Darrow

In an argument; Men use reason and never have enough. Women use emotion and always have too much.

— Anonymous

That's what the new definition of racist is: It's a conservative that's winning an argument!

— Kris Kobach

When you let someone else win an argument, often you both end up winners.

— Richard Carlson

I think that we may lose the argument, but I think we have to talk about gun control.

— Chuck Todd

“The moral argument ends the moment someone tries to hurt the people you love.”

— Adrian Howell

Contempt is the emotion we feel for an opponent whose arguments are too formidable to refute.

— Ann Coulter

Let us face it: in the world today, money and economic strength remain more powerful arguments than the number of people you…

— Guy Verhofstadt

“Mock and ridicule men who refuse to use reason and logic; use reason and logic against men who know only how to…

— Criss Jami

“There is no point in winning an argument if you know or suspect you are wrong.”

— John Piper

“Attacking the person instead of the argument is condemned in logic, widespread in physics, and not used nearly enough in humanism.”

— Bauvard

I've scaled back my involvement with Twitter; it's too easy to get dragged into an argument.

— Charlie Brooker

“There is only one argument for doing something; the rest are arguments for doing nothing”

— Anonymous