The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and… — Ronald Fisher Copy Share Image
I don't think there's a lot of dispute for this. You can argue that we didn't get everything done that we wanted… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
In exposition and in argument, the writer must likewise never lose his hold upon the concrete; and even when he is dealing… — William Strunk, Jr Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
Wikipedia is forcing people to accept the stone-cold bummer that knowledge is produced and constructed by argument rather than by divine inspiration. — Clay Shirky Copy Share Image
Traditional arguments for the existence of God and contemporary attempts to use fine-tuning and cosmology to back up the case for his… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and… — Kyle Chandler Copy Share Image
To paint is always to start at the beginning again, yet being unable to avoid the familiar arguments about what you see… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
I don't think that split government is a good idea. Conventional wisdom in Washington for years has been that divided government is… — Scott Walker Copy Share Image
Moyo, a Zambia-born economist, asserts that aid is not only ineffective-it's harmful. Her argument packs a strong punch because she was born… — Amy Lockwood Copy Share Image
My sense from talking to college students is that you have a healthier sense of the diversity of opinions or arguments or… — William Kristol Copy Share Image
Evolution has encountered no intellectual trouble; no new arguments have been offered. Creationism is a home-grown phenomenon of American sociocultural history-a splinter… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not… — Nhat Hanh Copy Share Image
Ivan and Misha is the great American Russian Novel told as Chekhov would tell it, in stories of delicacy, humanity, and insight.… — Carolyn Cooke Copy Share Image
Theoretically, you can make, obviously, a powerful argument that centuries of slavery, Jim Crow, discrimination are the primary cause for all those… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion,… — Robert Nozick Copy Share Image
“You have to predict and examine and understand every argument the other side is going to throw at you. It's not about… — Cherrie Lynn Copy Share Image
There was a very convincing argument made that the extremists have won and the aggression is now supported by the majority, therefore… — Joichi Ito Copy Share Image
There is, of course, a legitimate argument for some limitation upon immigration. We no longer need settlers for virgin lands, and our… — John F. Kennedy Copy Share Image
The modern believer is not suspicious enough, which is perhaps why, when they try to construct arguments in their defence, the convictions… — Julian Baggini Copy Share Image
It's the problem with age. You have all these rusty arguments, and no quarrel to use them in. My brain is a… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
[Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are… — Indro Montanelli Copy Share Image
There will have to be rigid and iron discipline before we achieve anything great and enduring, and that discipline will not come… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
The studying, the books, exams, arguments, theories. The jokes and pints, laughter, kisses and songs. Life was like running, ninety percent sweat… — Siobhan Dowd Copy Share Image
It is amazing how many people think that they can answer an argument by attributing bad motives to those who disagree with… — Thomas Sowell Copy Share Image
Sometimes [Eva Braun] would go back to his apartment to "make up." At the Berghof, these arguments didn't last as long, [Adolf… — Gretl Braun Copy Share Image
Liberals could live their whole lives never having to hear an actual conservative opinion other than the idiotic arguments written for conservative… — Ann Coulter Copy Share Image
At the end of the day, perhaps the best argument against capital punishment may be that it is an issue beyond the… — Scott Turow Copy Share Image
Yes, I have a philosophy, and you have to come with good arguments to change that philosophy, but, if someone has a… — Louis van Gaal Copy Share Image
The one conclusive argument that has at all times discouraged people from drinking a poison is not that it kills but rather… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Conspiracy nut, leftist, madman. These are terms of dismissal so you don't have to listen to the argument. It would be healthier… — Oliver Stone Copy Share Image
My argument is simple, which is, that for several thousand years in Western civilization, marriage has been the union of one man… — Gary Bauer Copy Share Image
Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to… — James A. Baldwin Copy Share Image
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever… — Bertrand Russell Copy Share Image
Of course, there were huge disagreements in the arguments of military intervention, .. There is no point at the moment on focusing… — Chris Patten Copy Share Image
“Faith, for me, isn't an argument, a catechism, a philosophical “proof.” It is instead a lens, a way of experiencing life, and… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
My father hated rock and roll - hated it. My first real argument with my father was over the Rolling Stones. And… — Patti Smith Copy Share Image
I don't get that - people going to war over religion. I don't know, I could see going to war over justice… — Richard Jeni Copy Share Image
My argument is that there is already an automated machine to make pads. What I did - I reverse-engineered it to 'simple.'… — Arunachalam Muruganantham Copy Share Image
![“[Addressed to Berlusconi who wanted to impose himself on the editorial style of "Il Giornale"] In the art of entrepeneurship, you are certainly a genius, and I an asshole. But in the art of argument the genius is me, and you the asshole.” quote by Indro Montanelli](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/ac9/indro-montanelli-23829_argument_addressed-to-berlusconi-who-wanted-to-im_1479942.jpg)
![“Sometimes [Eva Braun] would go back to his apartment to "make up." At the Berghof, these arguments didn't last as long, [Adolf Hitler] would smooth her feathers and they'd be good together again. I doubt anybody else noticed this but me. It wasn't obvious.” quote by Gretl Braun](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/63a/gretl-braun-9500_apartment_sometimes-eva-braun-would-go-back-to-his_994307.jpg)
