Argument Quotes

Life is an argument you cant win.

— Anonymous

A gun is not an argument.

— Ayn Rand

Most arguments are useless.

— Aesop

Use soft words in hard arguments.

— Henry George Bohn

Lose an argument, not a person.

— Suman Rai

Let your life be your argument.

— Albert Schweitzer

My life is my argument.

— Albert Schweitzer

The argument is at an end.

— Saint Augustine

Silence is argument carried on by other mean

— Che Guevara

Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.

— Laurence Sterne

The only way to get the best of an argument is to avoid it.

— Dale Carnegie

Arguments only confirm people in their own opinions.

— Booth Tarkington

Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt.

— Roger Bacon

Follow the argument wherever it leads.

— Socrates

Insight makes argument ridiculous.

— John Lancaster Spalding

“For emotion is the enemy of rational argument.”

— Steven D. Levitt

The power I exert on the court depends on the power of the power of my arguments, not my gender

— Sandra Day O'Connor

Men are so made that they can resist sound argument, and yet yield to a glance.

— Honore de Balzac

“Intelligence seeks reasons behind things. Wisdom looks for things behind reasons.”

— Raheel Farooq

A good story should provoke discussion, debate, argument...and the occasional bar fight.

— Anonymous

My ideal picture of citizenship will always be an argument, not a sing-along.

— Sarah Vowell

“there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it .”

— Dale carnegie

Preaching is to much avail, but practice is far more effective. A godly life is the strongest argument you can offer the…

— Hosea Ballou

He's the only man I know who could start an argument with himself. (on Craig Bellamy)

— Bobby Robson

I think we begin to lose the ability to read in the deepest, most interpretive ways because were not kind of calming…

— Nicholas G. Carr

“What came next wasn't exactly silence, because although it was quiet, a thousand things were being said. I hated that part about…

— Deb Caletti

If one is going to change the definition of marriage to be, quote, 'same sex,' then there is absolutely no valid argument…

— Gary Bauer

Team members care about one another, listen, share secrets, talk about the latest news, have heated arguments, are sometimes jealous of each…

— Tom Rath

For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem, - a thought so passionate and alive that like…

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

Big History's not going to replace existing educational courses. It's not an attack on specialisation. It is simply the argument that specialisation…

— David Christian

If you put Buddha, Jesus Christ, Socrates, Shakespeare, Arjuna, Krishna at a dinner table together, I can't see them having an argument.

— Hugh Jackman

Jokes of the proper kind, properly told, can do more to enlighten questions of politics, philosophy, and literature than any number of…

— Isaac Asimov

The main argument is that capitalism is constituted by a varied of different practices, and so challenging capitalism needs to be about…

— Cynthia Kauffman

“Now it is such a bizarrely improbable coincidence that anything so mind-bogglingly useful could have evolved purely by chance that some thinkers…

— Douglas Adams

I think people resist feminism because they're scared. I think for women, they're scared of being picked on or of being called…

— Jessica Valenti

We call 'Slavery is wrong' a moral truth because there is a specific history of theoretical investigation of a particular kind of…

— Catherine Wilson

Probably no single event highlights the strength of Campbell's argument (on peak oil) better than the rapid development of the Alberta tar…

— Andrew Nikiforuk

True gospel authority, the authority to heal and renew things and people, is not finally found in a hierarchical office, a theological…

— Richard Rohr

This national argument is usually interpreted as a battle between imperialists led by Roosevelt and Lodge and anti-imperialists led by William Jennings…

— William Appleman Williams

It's much better to talk about the media as a system of propaganda and abuse, of manufactured consent, than it is to…

— Henry Giroux