Argument Quotes · Page 54

I am finishing a biography of [Gustave] Flaubert. Because he is the opposite of what I am. One needs to rub up…

— Jean-Paul Sartre

Humanity is in the highest degree irrational, so that there is no prospect of influencing it by reasonable arguments. Against prejudice one…

— Sigmund Freud

One of the duties of a baseball fan is to engage in arguments with the man behind him.

— Sharon Olds

In the Freudian age, parents say to their children, 'Don't be defensive,' meaning, 'You have no argument,' but I was born in…

— Mark Helprin

I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.

— Lissie

In a debate, rather pull to pieces the argument of thy antagonists than offer him any of thy own; for thus thou…

— Henry Fielding

The Spirit never makes men the instruments of converting others until they feel that they cannot do it themselves; that their skill…

— Charles Hodge

In an argument, you may silence your opponent by pressing an advantage of strength or of wealth, or of education. But you…

— Kano Jigoro

Through Plato, Aristotle came to believe in God; but Plato never attempted to prove His reality. Aristotle had to do so. Plato…

— Edith Hamilton

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

— Anonymous

I'm vey bad at marshaling arguments. I can't, at a dinner party, explain why I'm a socialist and why others should be…

— David Hare

The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

— George Carlin

Such exaggerations have been so common that the public takes them with a grain of salt and partly excuses them as being…

— Daniel Starch

The duty of rhetoric is to deal with such matters as we deliberate upon without arts or systems to guide us, in…

— Aristotle

Newspapers and their editors have to become as accountable as the rest of us - they are not 'a special case,' and…

— David Puttnam

Earthly minds, like mud walls, resist the strongest batteries; and though, perhaps, sometimes the force of a clear argument may make some…

— John Locke

With regard to testimony from various experts, there was pro and con. The argument was very articulately made that many provinces allow…

— Kelvin Ogilvie

I think that as poets, we can get away with stuff because we can ride on the melt of metaphor. We cover…

— David Biespiel

Or have I passed my time in pouring words like water into empty sieves, rolling a stone up a hill and then…

— William Hazlitt

And before you ask, no, you're not driving, Myrnin. I remember the last time." "That accident was not my fault." "You were…

— Rachel Caine

“It has an unhappy effect upon the human understanding and temper, for a man to be compelled in his gravest investigation of…

— William Godwin

I think the mother of all arguments against eating meat now is the climate change argument. Methane is a much more powerful…

— Dale Jamieson

[Milton's] argument is (a) St. Augustine was wrong in thinking God's only purpose in giving Adam a female, instead of a male,…

— C. S. Lewis

Perhaps MacKinnon should reflect on these suggestions that the censorship issue is not so simple-minded, so transparently gender-against-gender, as she insists. She…

— Ronald Dworkin

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience,…

— Andre Gide