Argument Quotes · Page 30

“The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.”

— James Rozoff

The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth.

— Hilary Mantel

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

— Mark Twain

The world was won for Christ not by arguments but by sanctity: "What you are speaks so loud, I can hardly hear…

— Peter Kreeft

Every argument on lynching in the South gets back sooner or later to the question of rape.

— Ray Stannard Baker

Advertising is the modern substitute for argument; its function is to make the worse appear the better.

— George Santayana

Human sympathy has its limits, and we were contented to let all their tragic arguments fade with the city lights behind.

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

Public reason arguments can be good or bad just like other arguments.

— John Rawls

So, on the whole, I'd have to say that no, people don't change, but they CAN learn to behave differently. I want…

— Charlaine Harris

The question really is what will be the central focus of global politics in the coming decades and my argument is that…

— Samuel P. Huntington

Most of my arguments with musicians through the years have had more to do with their attitude about music, or their attitude…

— Billy Corgan

The argument we always used to use was that keeping records in the catalog was good for people that were coming new…

— Evan Parker

“Given the state of disaster we humans have wrought upon the planet, it seems an argument can be made for the inferiority…

— Hope Bohanec

Is it not better to remain in suspense than to entangle yourself in the many errors that the human fancy has produced?…

— Michel de Montaigne

I understand fully that jobs are created by the private sector, having been all my life in the private sector, but I…

— Chris Gabrieli

It is wonderful to work in an environment with a lot of smart people. It challenges you to think and work on…

— Marissa Mayer

If my choice is to, I don’t know, be with a lot of men, or if I enjoy a really physical relationship,…

— Lana Del Rey

All things considered, I can see no reason to adopt the afterlife hypothesis. I am sure I shall remain in a minority…

— Susan Blackmore

It is also naïve empiricism to provide, in support of some argument, series of eloquent confirmatory quotes by dead authorities. By searching,…

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

My brother, Cecil Edward Chesterton, was born when I was about five years old; and, after a brief pause, began to argue.…

— Gilbert K. Chesterton

If you believe certain words, you believe their hidden arguments. When you believe something is right or wrong, true or false, you…

— Frank Herbert

If ever there was a cause, if ever there can be a cause, worthy to be upheld by all of toil or…

— Horace Mann

“I am not a thing to be controlled by you,' Nesta said icily. Everything in her life, from the moment she was…

— Sarah J. Maas

Inevitably it's going to cause some terrible misogynist backlash, and I assume we'll look forward to eight years of jaw-droppingly sexist statements…

— Joss Whedon

I do not propose to criticize the fatuous argument I have just outlined; here, to expound is to expose.

— Peter Medawar

O foolish anxiety of wretched man, how inconclusive are the arguments which make thee beat thy wings below!

— Dante Alighieri

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

— Mason Cooley

Calling Rand Paul 'the most interesting man in politics' is an invitation to an argument - but one we suspect he'd love…

— Nancy Gibbs

The GOSPEL is an annoucement not an argument. You share it, not shove it.

— Anonymous

Consumption is the death of capital, and the only valid arguments in favor of consumption are arguments in favor of death itself.

— Kenneth E. Boulding

Any argument that asserts that 'God did it' is a sign of a lazy mind.

— Peter Atkins

I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.

— Michael Palin

“One’s opinion should only be as strong as one’s knowledge on the matter.”

— Eric Hirzel

Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments.

— Daniel Okrent

What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth

— Mary Jo Bang

However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough.

— David Berlinski

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

— Jill Lepore

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

— Paul Feyerabend

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

— Catherynne M. Valente

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

— Anonymous