Argument Quotes · Page 32

Arguments about Scripture achieve nothing but a stomachache and a headache.

— Tertullian

There are really no serious arguments for communion in the hand. But there are the most gravely serious kinds of arguments against…

— Dietrich von Hildebrand

Euclid taught me that without assumptions there is no proof. Therefore, in any argument, examine the assumptions.

— Anonymous

You can always win an argument with a lady during your last few minutes of your life by telling her that she's…

— Nikhil Saluja

When I read passages like this, I want to look for the nearest wall to bang my head against.

— S. T. Joshi

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

— Bauvard

We argue with our biology, and the result of that argument is civilization.

— Charles Siebert

I hate people who always turn around an argument on you. Never their fault, always yours.

— Anonymous

For how many thousands of years now have we humans been what we insist on calling "civilized?" And yet, in total contradiction,…

— Walter Cronkite

'The Skeptical Environmentalist' was much more the idea of the scientific argument of realizing that we need to be skeptical about a…

— Bjorn Lomborg

Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a…

— Charles Bukowski

An argument would have begun to steam and boil and sputter - and you know how arguments end. Even if I had…

— Dale Carnegie

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be…

— David Hare

For the sake of argument and illustration I will presume that certain articles of ordinary diet, however beneficial in youth, are prejudicial…

— William Banting

What we've been hearing over and over again is that the reason Republicans are opposed to the surtax is because of the…

— Susan Collins

There have been no sects in the Christian world, however absurd, which have not endeavoured to support their opinions by arguments drawn…

— Laurence Sterne

Most religious people in America fully embrace science. So the argument that religion has some issue with science applies to a small…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

“I've spent a life-time attacking religious beliefs and have not wavered from a view of the universe that many would regard as…

— Phillip Adams

When men have appreciated the countless differences which the exercise of that judgment must necessarily produce, when they have estimated the intrinsic…

— William Edward Hartpole Lecky

I'm pretty critical, but I'm also pretty good at letting go once it's done. There's this existential argument that comes in, at…

— Chris Cornell

When neither high purpose nor the categorical imperatives of religion will do, the only argument against suicide is life itself. You pause…

— Al Alvarez

It was only later that I suffocated under the weight of his arguments, and his darker thoughts articulated. It was only later…

— Hannah Kent

I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that…

— Susan Orlean

“Whereas, our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye…

— Plato

Words are weapons, and it is dangerous . . . to borrow them from the arsenal of the enemy.

— George Santayana

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

— Anonymous

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

— Charlie Brooker

Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people.

— Doris Egan

“A healthy argument, even with an idiot, is always good; it opens one's eyes to own misunderstandings.”

— Ashok Kallarakkal

If one doesn't value logic, what logical argument would you invoke to prove they should value logic?

— Sam Harris

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Getting in an argument with a woman is like being arrested, because anything you say can and will be used against you.

— Anonymous

If you attempt an actual argument with a modern paper of opposite politics, you will have no answer except slanging or silence.

— Anonymous

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against.

— Bruce Lee

I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced my vote.

— 6th Baronet Sir James Fergusson

The other night I ate at a real nice family restaurant. Every table had an argument going.

— George Carlin

Words are what you fight with but what you fight about is whether or not you're afraid of them.

— David Mitchell

When you get me a good man made out of arguments, I will get you a good dinner with reading you the…

— George Eliot

I can make a valid argument that Bobby Heenan is pro wrestling's great performer.

— Jim Ross

You punch me, I punch back. I do not believe it's good for one's self-respect to be a punching bag.

— Ed Koch