Argument Quotes · Page 23

I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.

— Ayaan Hirsi Ali

Dear clever comeback, can you come BEFORE the argument is over. K Thanks!

— Anonymous

You don’t break up with someone just because of an argument, Josh. At least, I don’t.

— Barry Lyga

All the arguments to prove man's superiority cannot shatter this hard fact: in suffering the animals are our equals.

— Peter Singer

A handful of soldiers is always better than a mouthful of arguments.

— Georg C. Lichtenberg

Truth does not change because it is, or is not, believed by a majority of the people.

— Giordano Bruno

Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

— Julian Assange

Resist the urge to get into an argument. Remember, you dont have to agree, just try to understand the other persons perspective.

— Kemmy Nola

I try to turn a written thing, when I'm in trouble with it, into a spoken thing: I start imagining what I…

— Adam Gopnik

The soundest argument will produce no more conviction in an empty head than the most superficial declamation; as a feather and a…

— Charles Caleb Colton

Now therefore, that my mind is free from all cares, and that I have obtained for myself assured leisure in peaceful solitude,…

— Rene Descartes

When people are feeling insecure about their jobs and there are cuts to be made, it's hard to put up an argument…

— Julian Fellowes

What we perceive things to be when they come out of our mouth is not what the listener perceives it to be.…

— Dick Dale

The difficulty with pragmatic arguments for a religion is that truths do not always "work", and beliefs that "work" are by no…

— John Warwick Montgomery

Jesus did not get stuck in intellectual arguments with people. He did not go for the intellect; He went for the conscience.…

— Kirk Cameron

They think America is like a major league in entertainment. For me personally being here for the past year-and-a-half, I know some…

— Aml Ameen

...[sacred] doctrine is especially based upon arguments from authority, inasmuch as its principles are obtained by revelation: thus we ought to believe…

— Thomas Aquinas

LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the…

— Ambrose Bierce

Reason is non-negotiable. Try to argue against it, or to exclude it from some realm of knowledge, and you've already lost the…

— Steven Pinker

Understanding God is not attained by calling into session all arguments for and against Him, in order to debate whether He is…

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

You're dead," I repeated. "So why are you in my dream?" He raised the bill of his olive drab ball cap with…

— Rachel Caine

Being a Christian does not mean that there is one way of living a Christian life, people do it differently in different…

— Alan Green

“In modern life outside of the academy, however, arguments and debates have no external review. Facts come and go as people find…

— Thomas M. Nichols

Science, by itself, cannot supply us with an ethic. It can show us how to achieve a given end, and it may…

— Bertrand Russell

It's very hard to make arguments about the effects of cloning on family relations if family relations are in tatters.

— Leon Kass

I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged.

— Antonin Scalia

Avoid arguments, but whenever a negative attitude is expressed, counter with a positive and optimistic opinion.

— Norman Vincent Peale

There's one argument that says we shouldn't be putting these kids on under the age of 16. I think you've got to…

— Simon Cowell

An argument may remove doubt, but only the Holy Spirit can convict of truth.

— Ravi Zacharias

Academical disputation gives vigor and briskness to the mind thus exercised, and relieves the languor of private study and meditation.

— Isaac Watts

The argument from improbability, properly deployed, comes close to proving that God does not exist.

— Richard Dawkins

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.

— Robert F. Almeder

A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.

— Joyce Cary

Learned arguments do not make a man holy and righteous, whereas a good life makes him dear to God.

— Thomas a Kempis

Never get into an argument with a schizophrenic person and say, Who do you think you are?

— Ray Combs

An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers.

— Jon Niccum

When parents say 'Because I said so.' you know you made a good argument.

— Anonymous

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

— Victor Serge

When much dispute has past, we find our tenets just the same as last.

— Alexander Pope

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate.

— Margaret Heffernan