Argument Quote by Benjamin Carson

People often find it easier to refute a fake extreme opponent than a more cautious real one, so they knock down the straw man…

— Madsen Pirie

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with…

— Douglas William Jerrold

It's so much easier to debate people when you can pretend that they hold moronic position that they don't actually believe.

— Glenn Greenwald

Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to…

— Thomas Sowell

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

— David Viscott

Whenever people are being intellectually dishonest in debate, it is an implicit concession they have lost the fight

— Barney Frank

Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally.

— Steven Weinberg

When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly…

— Judith Martin

“The goal of argumentation is to make a case so forceful (note the metaphor) that skeptics are coerced into believing it—they are powerless to…

— Steven Pinker

Sometimes, arguments results to fights because the wrong persons lack the courage to admit and accept their errors.

— Terry Mark

Insults are the arguments employed by those who are in the wrong.

— Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“There are four kinds of people in this world: cretins, fools, morons, and lunatics…Cretins don’t even talk; they sort of slobber and stumble…Fools are…

— Umberto Eco