Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory. — Leonardo da Vinci Copy Share Image
Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments. — Sidney Hook Copy Share Image
At a time like this, scorching irony, not convincing argument, is needed. — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.” “Whose arguments should I use? — Franny Billingsley Copy Share Image
Rightly to be great Is not to stir without great argument, But greatly to find quarrel in a straw When honour's at… — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive. — Amartya Sen Copy Share Image
“you, yourself are the only one you answer to, so you better make the argument a good one!” — Tracy Lee Copy Share Image
Dependency arguments often come from elites - either aid agencies or governments - and say something about attitudes to poor people. — Paul Harvey Copy Share Image
Never preach a sermon without a text from the Bible, a text containing the theme which you can elaborate. The text is… — Isaac Mayer Wise Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
It's false. There is absolutely no evidence that extreme weather events are on the increase. None. The argument that more and more… — Jerry Taylor Copy Share Image
The modern concept of separation is an argument for a total separation of religion from the state. The consequence of the acceptance… — Francis Schaeffer Copy Share Image
I'm sometimes impatient with young people who demonstrate at my meetings and who don't want an argument, but who just want to… — Pierre Trudeau Copy Share Image
As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
There is such a torture, happily unknown to ancient tyranny, as talking a man to death. Marcus Aurelius advises to assent readily… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
“To win an argument, rely on logic. To win in life, question logic. If you’re not willing to take some actions that… — Vizi Andrei Copy Share Image
The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We… — Paul McCartney Copy Share Image
The nobility of Teresa Leo's poems is that they are not disposed to hide from the dark-rather, they display a mind that… — Tony Hoagland Copy Share Image
I'm afraid, is that there are a number of groups who really don't want a fair-minded judge who has an openness to… — John Cornyn Copy Share Image
It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of… — Glenn Beck Copy Share Image
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed;… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
I have always thought that the role of the film-maker is to present the argument persuasively, emotionally and coherently and then it… — Franny Armstrong Copy Share Image
A willingness to engage in the give and take of argument displays a commitment to cognitive egalitarianism - the proposition that all… — George H. Smith Copy Share Image
Perhaps the most remarkable thing I found about the Bible was how flexible it is. Here we have a book written 3,000… — David Plotz Copy Share Image
