Argument Quotes · Page 83

Disagreement produces debate but dissent produces dissension. Dissent (which come from the Latin, dis and sentire) means originally to feel apart from…

— Daniel J. Boorstin

No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.

— Karl Popper

My house is small, but you are learned men And by your arguments can make a place Twenty foot broad as infinite…

— Geoffrey Chaucer

The irrationality of a thing is no argument against its existence, rather a condition of it.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

'Speak when you're spoken to!' The Queen sharply interrupted her. 'But if everybody obeyed that rule,' said Alice, who was always ready…

— Lewis Carroll

So long as an opinion is strongly rooted in the feelings, it gains rather than loses in stability by having a preponderating…

— John Stuart Mill

I never allow myself to have an opinion on anything that I don't know the other side's argument better than they do.

— Charlie Munger

I'm sure Donald Trump will think that he has the truth, and some journalist is arguing that he has truth, and somebody…

— Ray Dalio

Victory settles a lot of arguments in most men's heads.

— Robert Jordan

Agreeing to differ. [Lat., Discors concordia.]

— Ovid

Anyone should be able to express themselves in any context. Obviously, there are arguments against appropriation, but it's one thing when someone…

— Christian Scott

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

— Oscar Wilde

By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!

— Nassim Nicholas Taleb

All information is treated equally; only an accurate argument will work.

— Hiroyuki Nishimura

You can win any argument if you just keep replying with so? to everything they say until they have an existential crisis.!!!

— Tufail Mehraj

[Ognev] recalled endless, heated, purely Russian arguments, when the wranglers, spraying spittle and banging their fists on the table, fail to understand…

— Anton Chekhov

If the argument is that failure helps you succeed, well, so does success and it's quicker. This suggests at least one reason…

— Norman Geras

Some People think 'coven' is a word for a group of witches, and it's true that's what the dictionary says. But the…

— Terry Pratchett

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

Apple chief executive Tim Cook is such a respected figure that it's easy to overlook the basic problem with his argument about…

— David Ignatius

It's important to remember that Britain was the first country to industrialize, so I think there's a strong argument to say this…

— Jonathan Ive

A lot of these people are Iraqis fighting for control of their own government. Maybe there's an argument to make that outside…

— Glenn Greenwald

The Consequentialist trinity is typically regarded in this way: Bentham is crude, Mill's writings are full of howlers and inconsistencies, and Sidgwick…

— Dale Jamieson

[A] woman should have every honorable motive to exertion which is enjoyed by man, to the full extent of her capacities and…

— Frederick Douglass

The only driver stronger than an economic argument to do something is the war argument, the I-don't-want-to-die argument.

— Neil deGrasse Tyson