Closing one's ears to the complaints of partisans would also entail closing one's mind to the substance of their arguments. — Daniel Okrent Copy Share Image
What is desire but the hard wire argument given to the mind's unstoppable mouth — Mary Jo Bang Copy Share Image
However good an argument in philosophy may happen to be, it is generally not good enough. — David Berlinski Copy Share Image
You can be happy, or you can be right. If you want to be part of a couple and win every argument,… — Steve Harvey Copy Share Image
It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against… — Sigmund Freud Copy Share Image
If you lose an argument it doesn't mean you change your mind but you have to accept the decision. — Claire Fox Copy Share Image
“...the tension between them was so thick and sticky it was almost visible, like layers of cobweb.” — Emma Törzs Copy Share Image
I am not a person of opinions because I feel the counter arguments too strongly. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Jazz came out of New Orleans, and that was the forerunner of everything. You mix jazz with European rhythms, and that's rock… — The Edge Copy Share Image
There's a very real argument that the minute we are capable of going to a planet, whether it's Mars or another one,… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
When you voice your disagreement, begin by talking about what you have in common with the person you are arguing with. Too… — Matthew Kelly Copy Share Image
In a proper pub everyone there is potentially, if not a lifelong friend, at least someone to lure into an argument about… — Barbara Holland Copy Share Image
I consider the coke a major cause. Of course, you could also make the argument that because cocaine speeds up the heart,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
“Children are rarely taught critical thinking anymore, and society has become so antirational that basic reason and evidence are the new counterculture:… — Stefan Molyneux Copy Share Image
There is no more irritating fellow than the man who tries to settle an argument about communism, or justice, or liberty, by… — Mortimer Adler Copy Share Image
There are jobs to be created on both sides of the climate argument. Whether we are investing in oil or sun, coal… — Evangeline Lilly Copy Share Image
Recently, I took my son to see The Haunted Mansion, which was one of the worst things (I hesitate even to call… — A. O. Scott Copy Share Image
“It isn't the sort of argument Pointsman relishes either. But he glances sharply at this young anarchist in his red scarf. "Pavlov… — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
'In his celebrated book, 'On Liberty', the English philosopher John Stuart Mill argued that silencing an opinion is "a peculiar evil." If… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Has anyone ever told you that you're unbearably rude?" she returned, facing him again. "Why, yes. You have on several occasions, as… — Suzanne Enoch Copy Share Image
“Hey, Alec," he said. The man was on his hands and knees, leaning his face into the middle of a bush; he… — James Dashner Copy Share Image
That's when it happens. Maybe it was my argument. Maybe it was my scary zeal. Whatever the reason, as soon as Megan… — Cynthia Leitich Smith Copy Share Image
It is this claim to a monopoly of meaning, rather than any special scientific doctrine, that makes science and religion look like… — Mary Midgley Copy Share Image
I'm dirty in an argument; I'll win by any method. But I change my mind all the time and I will admit… — Sheila Hancock Copy Share Image
AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap. — Calvin Klein Copy Share Image
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. — Isaac Watts Copy Share Image
Caving into blather and peer pressure never bolstered anyone's argument. — Lisa Kennedy Montgomery Copy Share Image
If you didn't believe in objective truth, arguments would be just toys, or games, or jokes. — Peter Kreeft Copy Share Image
The function of art is to make that understood which in the form of argument would be incomprehensible. — Constantin Brancusi Copy Share Image
I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do. — Charlie Munger Copy Share Image
To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience. — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
Sometimes it's better to lose the argument than lose the person or the relationship. — Nishan Panwar Copy Share Image
“The definition of stupid is the inabilitly to see another side to an argument other than one's own.” — James Rozoff Copy Share Image
The more history I learnt, the less interested I got in winning arguments and the more interested in establishing the truth. — Hilary Mantel Copy Share Image
Marriage is a series of desperate arguments people feel passionately about. — Katharine Hepburn Copy Share Image
In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an… — Steven Wright Copy Share Image
“You can't cure ignorance based solely on the basis of a valid argument...” — Gary Nilsen Copy Share Image
“It is certainly impossible to lose respect if you lose out of some stupid discussions.” — Michael Bassey Johnson Copy Share Image
Argument cannot be answered with insults. Kindness is strength; anger blows out the lamp of the mind. — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
