A man lives by believing something: not by debating and arguing about many things. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
“It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“You can't cure ignorance based solely on the basis of a valid argument...” — Gary Nilsen Copy Share Image
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
The person who knows only his side of the argument knows little of that. — Karl Barth Copy Share Image
“The number of people that reside on our side will be the determination for a good result. Or a terrible one.” — Shannon A. Thompson Copy Share Image
Implements of war and subjugation are the last arguments to which kings resort. — Patrick Henry Copy Share Image
At the height of the Cold War, when Ronald Reagan was president, the Soviets and their allies and satellites did not shirk… — Elliott Abrams Copy Share Image
If you could just be nice, then you wouldn't have to worry about arguments at all. but being nice wasn't as easy… — Sarah Dessen Copy Share Image
If you don't want to be in an argument with someone, it is probably best to try to solve the problem, rather… — E. Lockhart Copy Share Image
The more a race is governed by its passions, the less it has acquired the habit of cautious and reasoned argument, the… — Stendhal Copy Share Image
In China, national priorities are established by the Government and then funded by the state; in India, priorities emerge from seemingly endless… — Shashi Tharoor Copy Share Image
At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The art of arguing is the art of living. We argue because we must, because life emends it, because, in the end,… — Gerry Spence Copy Share Image
...Nefret said with a gusty sigh, 'Well, that's done it. We may as well join in, Ramses, family arguments are the favorite… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I think nobody alive today is a more powerful agent of conversion than someone like Mother Teresa. You can refute arguments but… — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
I love to just listen and watch. I could happily watch a security camera at a store. Often during a day I'll… — Marshall Curry Copy Share Image
The not-quite-sort-of lie works here too - often an ad will announce that "Congressman Johnson voted for a bill that gave tax… — James Lileks Copy Share Image
There was no point in seeking to convert the intellectuals. For intellectuals would never be converted and would anyway always yield to… — Joseph Goebbels Copy Share Image
It was a mistake. On the information we had, we shouldn't have prosecuted the war. We shouldn't have changed our argument from… — Ed Balls Copy Share Image
I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given… — Roderick Haig-Brown Copy Share Image
“Neither force, nor argument, nor opinion," said Merlyn with the deepest sincerity, "are thinking. Argument is only a display of mental force,… — T.H. White Copy Share Image
The man assumes the role of the loner, the thinker and the searching spirit who calls the privileged and the powerful to… — Bryce Courtenay Copy Share Image
Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
People may refuse to see the truth of our arguments, but they cannot evade the evidence of a holy life. — J. C. Ryle Copy Share Image
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
Caving into blather and peer pressure never bolstered anyone's argument. — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
I'm dirty in an argument; I'll win by any method. But I change my mind all the time and I will admit… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap. — Calvin Klein Copy Share Image
“The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.” — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's better to lose the argument than lose the person or the relationship. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument,… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
If you lose an argument it doesn't mean you change your mind but you have to accept the decision. — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
