Argument Quote by Alain de Botton

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

— Gay Hendricks

Arguments, like children, should be like the subject that begets them.

— Thomas Dekker

“In real-life situations apparently logical lines of argument are often (not always) based on an inability to see alternative possibilities. In a similar way…

— Edward De Bono

People's minds are changed through observation and not through argument.

— Will Rogers

Arguments are too much like disputes.

— Jane Austen

Arguments are to be avoided: they are always vulgar and often convincing.

— Oscar Wilde

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as it is generally in books the worst sort of reading.

— Jonathan Swift

Some philosophical arguments (e.g., in connection with the mind/body problem) look pretty good, while others (e.g., those that criticize moral realism) do not.

— Elliott Sober

Unnecessary and hurtful words often lead to senseless arguments.

— Anonymous

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the…

— Peter Kreeft

Arguments are like fire-arms which a man may keep at home but should not carry about with him.

— Samuel Butler

I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.

— Benjamin Disraeli