Remind yourself that winning an argument or proving your point really gets you nowhere in the long run. Win through your actions,… — Robert Greene Copy Share Image
Although I was once sharply critical of the argument to design, I have since come to see that, when correctly formatted, this… — Antony Flew Copy Share Image
All that stock of arguments [the skeptics] produce to depreciate our faculties, and make mankind appear ignorant and low, are drawn principally… — George Berkeley Copy Share Image
Any work of science, no matter what its point of departure, cannot become fully convincing until it crosses the boundary between the… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
Look. I have always rejected the argument that members of Congress cast their vote because they're Jewish or not Jewish. I didn't… — Steve Israel Copy Share Image
There is a legitimate argument over whether the death penalty effectively deters violent crime, although my personal observation is that not one… — Dinesh D'Souza Copy Share Image
Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
I have heard my fill of hurtful words. I think it's especially egregious when citizens like me, who point out abuses in… — Gunter Grass Copy Share Image
I was told in many places of Osgar's bravery and Goll's strength and Conan's bitter tongue, and the arguments of Oisin and… — Lady Gregory Copy Share Image
There are two kinds of comprehensive doctrines, religious and secular. Those of religious faith will say I give a veiled argument for… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
The one who wanders independent in the world, free from opinions and viewpoints, does not grasp them and enter into disputations and… — Gautama Buddha Copy Share Image
I ceased in the year 1764 to believe that one can convince one’s opponents with arguments printed in books. It is not… — Georg C. Lichtenberg Copy Share Image
One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for… — Gay Hendricks Copy Share Image
The arguments for immortality, weak when you take them one by one, are no more cogent when you take them together... For… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Atrocity is recognized as such by victim and predator alike, by all who learn about it at whatever remove. Atrocity has no… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from… — Daniel J. Boorstin Copy Share Image
I don't think it is impossible to make the case to sensible Americans that far greater restrictions on their so-called gun rights… — Bret Stephens Copy Share Image
Don't raise your voice, improve your argument." [Address at the Nelson Mandela Foundation in Houghton, Johannesburg, South Africa, 23 November 2004] — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I… — Sean Hannity Copy Share Image
The Canteen Boy, the reason you feel bad for him and you can laugh is because he, and I guess a lot… — Adam Sandler Copy Share Image
It is important not to let emotions get in the way of cold, hard, calculated military planning. Emotions may win arguments, but… — Kathleen Troia McFarland Copy Share Image
Sometimes an argument saves a relationship, whereas silence breaks it. Speak up for your heart so that you won't have regrets. Life… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
There is a difference between being a political force, or a political apparent force or a potential force, and between a real… — Jay Rockefeller Copy Share Image
I don't buy the argument that there can't be a successful independent candidacy for the presidency of the United States. People who… — Mark McKinnon Copy Share Image
I'm quite an emotional person. I cry a lot. I do not like conflict, so if I have an argument with my… — Ana Ivanovic Copy Share Image
“The kind of truth that can be asserted by argument had lost all glamour, all lustre, for him, seeming no more now… — Barry Unsworth Copy Share Image
The churches used to win their arguments against atheism, agnosticism, and other burning issues by burning the ismist, which is fine proof… — Ben Lindsey Copy Share Image
The modern concept of separation is an argument for a total separation of religion from the state. The consequence of the acceptance… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
It's false. There is absolutely no evidence that extreme weather events are on the increase. None. The argument that more and more… — Jerry Taylor Copy Share Image
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is… — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
“The vanity of intelligence is that the intelligent man is often more committed to 'one-upping' his opponent than being truthful. When the… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, 'Don't be defensive,' meaning, 'You have no argument,' but I was born in… — Mark Helprin Copy Share Image
“To win an argument, rely on logic. To win in life, question logic. If you’re not willing to take some actions that… — Vizi Andrei Copy Share Image
As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes impatient with young people who demonstrate at my meetings and who don't want an argument, but who just want to… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
When you argue and fight in a relationship, it is simply a test to see if the partnership is strong enough to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It seems idle to rail at ambition merely because it is a boundless passion; or rather is not this circumstance an argument… — William Shenstone Copy Share Image
It's one thing if you're a part of teams that won five championships. But it's an extremely different argument if you're a… — Troy Aikman Copy Share Image
CCTV is seen either as a symbol of Orwellian dystopia or a technology that will lead to crime-free streets and civil behaviour.… — Heather Brooke Copy Share Image