Argument Quotes · Page 11

Arguments, like men are often pretenders

— Plato

“You are an argument for God's existence.”

— Sylvain Reynard

An Argument needs no reason; Nor any friendship.

— Ibycus

Insolence is not logic; epithets are the arguments of malice.

— Robert Green Ingersoll

The plea of necessity, that eternal argument of all conspirators.

— William Henry Harrison

Argument should be polite as well as logical.

— Alphonse de Lamartine

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

— Anonymous

All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

— Hiroyuki Nishimura

Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.

— Leonardo da Vinci

A mature society understands that at the heart of democracy is argument.

— Salman Rushdie

At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed.

— Frederick Douglass

Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.

— Sidney Hook

Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use?

— Franny Billingsley

To invoke solely the weaker arguments and yet triumph is an art worth more than a hundred thousand drachmae.

— Aristophanes

I love argument, I love debate. I don't expect anyone just to sit there and agree with me, that's not their job.

— Margaret Thatcher

The strongest argument for socialism is that it sounds good. The strongest argument against socialism is that it doesn't work. But those…

— Thomas Sowell

A striking feature of moral and political argument in the modern world is the extent to which it is innovators, radicals, and…

— Alasdair MacIntyre

It's not about whether or not someone is a bigot, but whether or not the argument which that someone is arguing is…

— Criss Jami

If this phrase of the 'balance of power' is to be always an argument for war, the pretext for war will never…

— John Bright

I don't accept at all the quite popular argument that the press is responsible for the monarchy's recent troubles. The monarchy's responsible…

— Anthony Holden

So you see how endlessly futile and fruitless it would be if we wanted to refute their objections every time they obstinately…

— Anonymous

The mark, to me, of a constructive argument is one that looks at a specific problem and says, 'What shall we do…

— Gloria Steinem

Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with…

— Steven Soderbergh

“Knowing Tim was a sucker for logical deduction and facts, he would pursue that avenue to entice Tim to step into the…

— Jasun Ether

“There’s a fascinating frailty of the human mind that psychologists know all about, called “argument from ignorance.” This is how it goes.…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I think Chinese leadership is trying to tell the world they have another set of logic or reasoning or values which are…

— Ai Weiwei

I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality.…

— Joseph McCabe

I cannot understand antiabortion arguments that center on the sanctity of life. As a species, we’ve fairly comprehensively demonstrated that we don’t…

— Caitlin Moran

My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain…

— Neil Postman

The draft is a monstrous violation of individual liberty, and even a good motive cannot make it otherwise. In a free society…

— Sheldon Richman

Therefore, when a person refuses to come to Christ it is never just because of a lack of evidence or because of…

— William Lane Craig

We must reinforce argument with results.

— Booker T. Washington

Losing a argument is better than losing a friend.

— Anonymous

Never attend all arguments that you've been invited to.

— Terry Mark

You could start an argument in an empty house.

— Jill Shalvis

The facts of the case will always have the better of [an] argument.

— Woodrow Wilson

“Good style, clear argument, but you're not saying anything.”

— Haruki Murakami

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in an argument.

— Anonymous

Silence is sometimes an argument of Consent.

— Thomas Hobbes