Argument Quotes · Page 44

If you feel yourself to be above the mass, speak so as to raise the mass to the height of your argument.

— George Henry Lewes

One could drive a prairie schooner through any part of his argument and never scrape against a fact.

— David F. Houston

Gilrs get the last word in every argument. Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument.

— Anonymous

It's the duty of a lawyer to represent anyone for whom a responsible argument could be made.

— Anonymous

“Every argument against the God of the Bible is based on made-up stuff.”

— Petros Scientia

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

— Samuel Butler

How many times have we come away from an argument wishing we had said and done something different?

— Leonard Nimoy

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

It's all very boring to say that we get along great and all that and sometimes we mock up come aggravation to…

— Dave Edmunds

Even if I knew nothing of the atoms, I would venture to assert on the evidence of the celestial phenomena themselves, supported…

— Lucretius

Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time…

— John Maynard Keynes

Political ideas that have dominated the public mind for decades cannot be refuted through rational arguments. They must run their course in…

— Ludwig von Mises

I am trying to get at the moral arguments and the ethical status of various attempts at enhancement, or genetic engineering, or…

— Michael Sandel

But the idea is to provoke and persuade, not to soothe. And the best way to make an argument is to make…

— Maud Newton

Having a highly homogeneous background, education, values, preferences, etc, in the very early team is better than not - cuts down on…

— Max Levchin

We can't be anti-everything - we need an energy plan that adds up. But there's a lack of numeracy in the public…

— David J. C. MacKay

Teller contended, not implausibly, that hydrogen bombs keep the peace, or at least prevent thermonuclear war, because the consequences of warfare between…

— Carl Sagan

Our current gun culture simply ensures that more and more domestic disputes will end in the ultimate tragedy, and that more convenience-store…

— Bob Costas

You might argue on utilitarian grounds that the best way for the world to work is for everybody to take care of…

— Paul Bloom

After Pope, in the beginning of Romanticism, people developed the idea that imagination rather than reason was a special form of knowledge…

— Robert Hass

“I can quote you several examples where women were physically and violently hurt by men but at the same time, they were…

— Shahla Khan

One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was…

— Charles Frazier

It cannot be that axioms established by argumentation should avail for the discovery of new works, since the subtlety of nature is…

— Francis Bacon

There's no point going to a country which is torturing people to ask them to stop if they can point out that…

— Salman Rushdie

Whenever I run into prejudice. I smile and feel sorry for them, and I say to myself, There's one more argument for…

— Freddy Fender

The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth.

— Czeslaw Milosz

I used to think that my mother got into arguments with people because they didn't understand her English, because she was Chinese.

— Amy Tan

“A balanced argument is one that takes place entirely in my head, and doesn’t cause me to tip over.”

— Jarod Kintz

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

— David Crystal

I tend to judge a piece of criticism by how smart I find the argument. This, I know,, is not how everyone…

— Michelle Dean

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

— Samuel Johnson

A man with an experience of God is never at the mercy of a man with an argument.

— Leonard Ravenhill

History furnishes to politics all the arguments that it needs, for the chosen cause.

— Romain Rolland

It's a powerful instrument, dynamite -- nothing like it for a convincing argument!

— Leonid Andreyev

The formula of the argument is simple and familiar: to dispose of a problem all that is necessary is to deny that…

— Anonymous

You cannot be sure that you are right unless you understand the arguments against your views better than your opponents do.

— Milton Friedman

Never argue. In society nothing must be; give only results. If any person differs from you, bow, and turn the conversation.

— Benjamin Disraeli

The Queen rarely loses her temper, but when she does, she brooks no argument.

— Ingrid Seward

The only way by which you and I can wean orthodox Hindus from their bigotry is by patient argument and correct conduct.

— Mahatma Gandhi

Oh, please. If she's going to use Mr. Darcy to prop up her arguments, I give up.

— Sophie Kinsella