Argument Quotes · Page 22

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry gets the best of the argument.

— Richard Whately

Use the word 'cybernetics', Norbert, because nobody knows what it means. This will always put you at an advantage in arguments.

— Claude Shannon

True wisdom, laboring to expound, heareth others readily; False wisdom, sturdy to deny, closeth up her mind to argument.

— Martin Farquhar Tupper

It must be a conviction Government. As Prime Minister I could not waste time having internal arguments.

— Margaret Thatcher

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

— Ralph Waldo Emerson

“It is better to debate a question without settling it than to settle a question without debating it. Joseph Joubert I”

— Justin Brierley

“Some topics seem to be nothing but philosophical circles designed to lure the unsuspecting ant to its death.”

— D.E. Navarro

All logical arguments can be defeated by the simple refusal to reason logically

— Steven Weinberg

History is full of really good stories. That's the main reason I got into this racket: I want to make the argument…

— Sarah Vowell

Although everyone fights, few people know how to have a good argument, an argument that clears the air and makes it less…

— David Viscott

The strength of the donkey mind lies in adopting a course inversely as the arguments urged, which, well considered, requires as great…

— George Eliot

The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and…

— Ronald Fisher

A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question."…

— Charles Darwin

I have resolved to demonstrate by a certain and undoubted course of argument, or to deduce from the very condition of human…

— Baruch Spinoza

I often have an argument with people. I say name me a classic song that's not sad in some kind of way.…

— Danger Mouse

We run into some pretty tough arguments sometimes, but the idea is that at the end of the day, my wife and…

— Kyle Chandler

Ever argue with a female and, in the middle of the argument, you no longer feel safe because of her actions? She…

— Kevin Hart

What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the…

— George Saunders

The whole analogy of natural operations furnishes so complete and crushing an argument against the intervention of any but what are termed…

— Thomas Huxley

“Mine is not, however, so much an argument from silence as an argument for silence: a silence that can open up other…

— Josephine Quinn

We manage to swallow flesh only because we do not think of the cruel and sinful thing that we do. Cruelty... is…

— Rabindranath Tagore

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

If you can somehow force a liberal into a point-counterpoint argument, his retorts will bear no relation to what you’ve said -…

— Ann Coulter

A very weighty argument is this namely, that neither does the light which descends from thence, chiefly upon the world , mix…

— Saint Augustine

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

— Isaac Watts

We have arguments [with my father] and we had a lot of arguments in the years when I was at Michigan.

— Bill Ayers

A woman has last word in any argument..Anything a man says after that is the beginning of a new argument..

— Cheyenne Jones

When men abandon reason, physical force becomes their only means of dealing with one another and of settling disagreements.

— Ayn Rand

If a woman and a man who have an argument keep talking they keep fighting.

— RZA

Look, I've had a few arguments on TV. But anybody who has an argument on TV is never going to come across…

— Megan McKenna

Faith never makes herself her own plea, she rests all her argument upon the blood of Christ.

— Anonymous

The Democrats need to be confident about making their argument... and making sure that everybody knows we care about them.

— Jason Kander

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

— Anonymous

The people of Nebraska are for free silver and I am for free silver. I will look up the arguments later.

— William Jennings Bryan

This argument that somehow I'm chasing the limelight is a bunch of nonsense, and it's offensive - highly offensive - to me.

— Michael Avenatti

Search for a spouse with many common interests, the more you have in common with your spouse the less you have to…

— AbdulBary Yahya

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can…

— Howard Nemerov

He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.

— Michel de Montaigne

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

— Lissie

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

— George Soros