Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order. — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed. — Thomas Aquinas Copy Share Image
It is more noble by silence to avoid an injury than by argument to overcome it. — Francis Beaumont Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
I became the stage for the great argument between Nietzsche and Rousseau. I was the extra ready to take on all the… — Jacques Derrida Copy Share Image
The argument for getting our own house in order is not an argument for turning our back on the world. We cannot… — Chris Christie Copy Share Image
“just try to win the argument instead of honestly looking for the truth.” — Nabeel Qureshi Copy Share Image
To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind. — John Tillotson Copy Share Image
What an argument in favor of social connections is the observation that by communicating our grief we have less, and by communicating… — Sir Fulke Greville Copy Share Image
When we started out and we were talking about the origins of the universe and the physical constants, I provided what I… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
Above all, the ability to feel the force of an argument apart from the substance it deals with is the strongest weapon… — Jacques Barzun Copy Share Image
What is prejudice? An opinion, which is not based upon reason; a judgment, without having heard the argument; a feeling, without being… — Carrie Chapman Catt Copy Share Image
Sometimes I like to list the strongest arguments I can find to support a point of view I think is wrong. When… — Lewis B. Smedes Copy Share Image
In the sports world it's all about argument. It's all about having a hot take. The other person has to have the… — Rich Eisen Copy Share Image
I've heard that phallic symbol argument before, and always from ineffectual people driven to make everyone else as helpless as they are.… — L. Neil Smith Copy Share Image
“...Life does not follow the continuous flow of logical argument and that one often has to risk moving beyond the limits of… — Thomas R. Flynn Copy Share Image
“ "You’re the first girl I’ve met around here who’s real, and who cares about things and likes to do things. But… — Jennifer Sturman Copy Share Image
People have long assumed that violence is necessary for political change. Rulers never cede power voluntarily, the argument goes, so progressives have… — Steven Pinker Copy Share Image
“There are two different evils about propaganda as now practised. On the one hand, its appeal is generally to irrational causes of… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
All fiction, if it's successful, is going to appeal to the emotions. Emotion is really what fiction is all about. That's not… — George R. R. Martin Copy Share Image
The question is: exactly how did life get here? Was it by natural selection and random mutation or was it by something… — Michael Behe Copy Share Image
“But Curtis had come to the table with something they’d never expected, something they would have thought outmoded and out-lived in the… — Dennis Lehane Copy Share Image
The argument culture urges us to approach the world - and the people in it - in an adversarial frame of mind.… — Deborah Tannen Copy Share Image
“People go funny in the head when talking about politics. The evolutionary reasons for this are so obvious as to be worth… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Presenting a rational argument to a person who has forsaken the use of reason is like asking a vegetarian to eat a… — Michel Templet Copy Share Image
For any given doctrine that one wants to believe, there is never a shortage of arguments by which to support it. — Leszek Kolakowski Copy Share Image
With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument. — Theophile Gautier Copy Share Image
There are two types of people: those who try to win and those who try to win arguments. They are never the… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Getting in an argument with a woman is like being arrested…anything you say can and will be used against you. — Sharon Copy Share Image
Somebody has to have the last word. If not, every argument could be opposed by another and we'd never be done with… — Albert Camus Copy Share Image
Argument Is Bad, But Discussion Is Good, Because, ARGUMENT Is To Find Out WHO IS RIGHT and DISCUSSION Is To Find Out… — Ritu Ghatourey Copy Share Image
Always be willing to look at both sides of the argument. Understanding the other side is the best way to strengthen your… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
The argument that resistance to the war should remain strictly nonviolent seems to me overwhelming. — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
If in argument we can make a man angry with us, we have drawn him from his vantage ground and overcome him. — Walter Savage Landor Copy Share Image
What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force? — Jules Verne Copy Share Image
Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments. — Wendy McElroy Copy Share Image
There is nothing that a New-Englander so nearly worships as an argument. — Henry Ward Beecher Copy Share Image
Its better to make adjustment with right people instead having arguments with wrong people. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
I think I had an argument with a hypnotist this morning. It makes perfect sense as I have no memory of it. — Dana Gould Copy Share Image
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard… — Oliver Goldsmith Copy Share Image
