Argument Quotes · Page 23

Dont argue with an idiot, people watching may not be able to tell the difference.

— Anonymous

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

— Gay Hendricks

“Stopping an argument is like pulling a weed. You have to get it before it seeds and gets beyond the point of…

— Miranda Liasson

The cross is Gods way of taking away all of our accusations, excuses, and arguments.

— Rob Bell

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

— Evelyn Waugh

There we go again, old men and their stupid arguments. What a pain. ~Toshiro Hitsugaya

— Tite Kubo

We are pleased with one who instantly assents to our opinions, but we love a proselyte.

— Arthur Helps

First of all, you can make the argument that there's no such thing as the past. Nobody lived in the past.

— David McCullough

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

One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the…

— Jerry Saltz

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

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

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

Old texts, myths, and religions have always fascinated me, though I prefer learning about them to writing papers and trying to make…

— Tom Shields

Also, as a rule of thumb, if you find yourself defending your inalienable right to make someone else feel like garbage, you're…

— Rich Burlew

No truth is proved, no truth achieved, by argument, and the ready-made truths men offer you are mere conveniences or drugs to…

— Antoine de Saint-Exupery

The indispensability argument says (roughly) that if you have ample reason to accept an empirical scientific theory that makes indispensable use of…

— Elliott Sober

Rather, it is meant to say that expressed arguments are never won, that only the first several minutes of any discussion can…

— Jo Coudert

Fiction seems to be more effective at changing beliefs than nonfiction, which is designed to persuade through argument and evidence. Studies show…

— Jonathan Gottschall

After a lifetime of picking stocks, I have to admit that Bogle's arguments in favor of the index fund have me thinking…

— Jim Cramer

More philosophically-minded critics regarded Einstein's argument for relativity as little more than a logical bait-and-switch ploy: "[T]he supposition of most expounders of…

— Arthur Oncken Lovejoy

Now I know that if I'm in a fight or a big argument with executives or the studio or whoever, and it's…

— Ronald D. Moore

Who would not want an illness that has among its symptoms elevated and expansive mood, inflated self-esteem, abundance of energy, less need…

— Kay Redfield Jamison

When you have nothing but big friends, you never get into arguments...except one. And that is, who is the biggest? I'll let…

— Gabriel Iglesias

The most important quality for a judge is open- mindedness to the arguments.

— Samuel Alito

With all the arguments and discussions about the Vietnam War, what did the visual image do? It ended the war.

— Cornell Capa

Crime can be a unifying argument - not an argument that people use as a code for us vs. them.

— Charles Schumer

If you go in for argument take care of your temper. Your logic if you have any will take care of itself.

— Joseph P. Farrell

Truth often suffers more by the heat of its defenders than the arguments of its opposers.

— William Penn

Passion does not make careful arguments: it declares itself, and that is enough.

— Jane Hirshfield

Nobody has ever made a coherent argument as to why things are right and wrong

— Anonymous

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that…

— PZ Myers

Argument does not teach children or the immature. Only time and experience does that.

— Doris Lessing

Evolution has long been the target of illogical arguments that use presumption.

— Marilyn vos Savant

No argument for abortion survives scientific, philosophical, or theological scrutiny.

— Michael J. Knowles

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everybody in good society holds exactly the same opinions.

— Oscar Wilde

I've never gotten into a heated argument with people. Heat diffuses reason.

— Lorne Greene

“Whenever they are condemning weaves or breast implants, some people speak so passionately that their false teeth almost fall out.”

— Mokokoma Mokhonoana

Missionary zeal does not grow out of intellectual beliefs, nor out of theological arguments, but out of love.

— Roland Allen

Wrote a science fiction novel about a man who wins an argument with his wife, but it was rejected for being too…

— Dana Gould