Arguing Quotes
1035 quotes by 834 authors
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In arguing of the shadow, we forgo the substance.
— John Lyly
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Wisdom doesn't mean that you know how to argue things or you fight with people. No, it doesn't mean that. Wisdom means how you take…
— Nirmala Srivastava
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It is a hard matter, my fellow citizens, to argue with the belly, since it has no ears.
— Plutarch
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The wise stand out because they see themselves as part of the Whole. They shine because they don't want to impress. They achieve great things…
— Laozi
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In their recently aborted struggle to inject Genesis literalism into science classrooms, fundamentalist groups followed their usual opportunistic strategy of arguing two contradictory sides of…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I'm a man of some intelligence. I've had some education, passed the bar, practiced law. I've been a teacher and I deal with men of…
— Branch Rickey
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Writing, I explained, was mainly an attempt to out-argue one's past; to present events in such a light that battles lost in life were either…
— Jules Feiffer
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Not to know me argues yourselves unknown.
— John Milton
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Marxists are more right than wrong when they argue that the problems scientists take up,. the way they go about solving them, and even the…
— Theodosius Dobzhansky
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Who killed Chivalry? They need to get their sentencing Meanwhile we arguing and I can't get a sentence in
— Drake
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One of the marvelous things about Churchill is that whatever he was doing, whether fighting or arguing or despairing or bouncing about full of energy,…
— Paul Johnson
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There were five children in my family, and arguing was how we used to entertain ourselves.
— Jack Straw
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The notion of the Internet as a force of political and social revolution is not a new one. As far back as the early 1990s,…
— Jamais Cascio
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My record was so bad that I was first rejected by the Peace Corps as a poor risk and possible troublemaker and was accepted as…
— Paul Theroux
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Arguing, in the sense of attempting to convince others, has gone out of fashion with conservatives.
— P.J. O'Rourke
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A huge amount of our everyday thinking - powerful, creative, and resonant stuff - is done socially: talking to other people, arguing with them, relying…
— Clive Thompson
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Christopher Hitchens was a great warrior, a magnificent orator, a pugilist and a gentleman. He was kind, but he took no prisoners when arguing with…
— Richard Dawkins
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only…
— Barbara Ehrenreich
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I think if you make a good movie, people walk away arguing.
— Angelina Jolie
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What role did the Internet play in the Egyptian Revolution? People will be arguing about the answer to that question for decades if not centuries.
— Rebecca MacKinnon
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