Argument Quote by Aristotle

Much waste of words and of thought too would be avoided if disputants would always begin with a clear statement of the question, and…

— Sara Coleridge

It were endless to dispute upon everything that is disputable.

— William Penn

“Unfortunately we did not attend Voltaire's dictum to define our terms before we began. The result was disagreement on all issues.”

— James Aldridge

Most controversies would soon be ended, if those engaged in them would first accurately define their terms, and then adhere to their definitions.

— Tryon Edwards

“Once the tyranny of literalness is rejected, all relevant considerations for giving a rational content to the words become operative.”

— Justice Frankfurter

There is no surer way to misread any document than to read it literally. ... As nearly as we can, we must put ourselves…

— Learned Hand

A false conclusion once arrived at and widely accepted is not easily dislodged and the less it is understood the more tenaciously it is…

— Georg Cantor

“If a person does not attend to the meaning of terms as they are commonly used in argument, he may be involved even in…

— Plato

We should have a great fewer disputes in the world if words were taken for what they are, the signs of our ideas only,…

— John Locke

“Olson’s case, he would later say, amounted to “one big Brandeis brief,” a term that refers to twentieth-century litigator Louis Brandeis, who in 1908…

— Jo Becker

“Being made up of distinctions, language finds it almost impossible to express undifferentiation.”

— René Girard

“You can easily see what and endless, wearisome and fruitless task it would be if I were to refute all the unconsidered objections of…

— St. Augustine