Argument Quotes · Page 35

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

— Alain de Botton

Nothing will ruin an interesting intelligent argument more quickly than the arrival of a pretty girl.

— William Feather

“Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.”

— Joyce Rachelle

The only person who listens to both sides of an argument is the fellow in the next apartment.

— Ruth Brown

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

— Oscar Wilde

One man with a genuine experience with God is worth more than a library full of arguments.

— Vance Havner

When a person has a gun, sometimes their mind clicks that this thing will win arguments and straighten people out.

— Bill Cosby

When you have an intense game, you're going to have arguments. I have no problem with it. I think it's healthy.

— Scott Brooks

The financial wealth that has been created is unprecedented. Even if the stock market, for argument's sake, leveled off here, there's been…

— Adam LaVorgna

[T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea .…

— Deborah Tannen

Liberals dispute that Reagan won the Cold War on the basis of their capacity to put mocking quotation marks around the word,…

— Ann Coulter

Few progressives would take issue with the argument that, significant accomplishments notwithstanding, the Obama presidency has been a big disappointment.

— Eric Alterman

In my view, the argument from parsimony is really no argument at all - it typically functions only to shut down more…

— David Eagleman

“I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument—…

— Dale Carnegie

...genuine trust implies the opportunity, of checking wherever it may be wanted... That is why it is the evidence, the experience itself…

— Philip Morrison

I'm in favor of any form of sexual relationship that gives pleasure to those involved. And I have never heard a convincing…

— Gore Vidal

That can happen when people die, the argument with them drops away and people so flawed while they were drawing breath that…

— Philip Roth

In my own research, teaching and consulting experience I have to combine lessons from the field in a relatively inductive and open…

— Yves Doz

“Philosophy needs vision and argument… there is something disappointing about a philosophical work that contains arguments, however good, which are not inspired…

— Hilary Putnam

“There is no great religion without a great schism. All of them have it. And that's because you're dealing with something called…

— Tom Quinn

We have received no single argument in favour of this document except political pressure. No link has been established between carbon dioxide…

— Andrey Illarionov

Anne Pitkin's poems have such lyrical sweep, such a sensitive eye for the natural world as it touches the human, that reading…

— Rosellen Brown

I suppose I was about 20, and a crowd of us had been to a village hop and came back to make…

— Margaret Thatcher

However much the creationist leaders might hammer away at their scientific and philosophical points, they would be helpless and a laughing-stock if…

— Isaac Asimov

Better than any argument is to rise at dawn and pick dew-wet red berries in a cup.

— Wendell Berry

The argument is the worst sort of conversation. Fanaticism is the worst of destructive words. If you nothing to say , say nothing.

— Pacifiersucker

Man is most happy, when his own actions are arguments and examples of his virtue.

— John Webster

You can win any argument if you just keep replying with so? to everything they say until they have an existential crisis.!!!

— Tufail Mehraj

Whenever I appeared to have won an argument, Mom would say something like, 'Even broken clocks are right twice a day.

— Tammara Webber

“(I)n order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it. (p. 158)”

— Rebecca Goldstein

That's the beauty of argument, if you argue correctly, you're never wrong.

— Christopher Buckley

My father always used to say, "Don't raise your voice. Improve your argument."

— Desmond Tutu

There are two sides to every argument, unless a person is personally involved, in which case there is only one

— Cutler Webster

It never really worked for me to have long arguments about motivation.

— Susan Sarandon

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

— William Stanley Jevons

Most people are brought to faith in Christ not by argument for it but by exposure to it.

— Sam Shoemaker

Talking with a Martian is like talking with an echo. You don't get argument but you don't get results.

— Robert A. Heinlein

“Intellect is the virtue of ignoring one’s emotions’ attempt to contaminate one’s opinions.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Few really believe. The most only believe that they believe or even make believe.

— Napoleon Bonaparte

How can arguments based on fact prevail in a nation where so many people know so little?

— Michelle Goldberg