Argument Quotes

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The clash of ideas is not weakness. Truth reaches its place when tussling with error. — Richard Henry Pratt
In comedy laughter settles all arguments. — Robert McKee
Argument is conclusive, but it does not remove doubt. — Roger Bacon
The argument is at an end. — Saint Augustine
I have heard many arguments which influenced my opinion, but never one which influenced my vote. — Sir James Fergusson, 6th Baronet
After a heated argument on some trivial matter Nancy [Astor] . shouted, If I were your wife I would put poison in your coffee! Whereupon… — John F. Akers
And your doubt can become a good quality if you train it. It must become knowing, it must become criticism. Ask it, whenever it wants… — Rainer Maria Rilke
If you want to stop an argument, close your mouth. — Charles R. Swindoll
It is important not to suppress your feelings altogether when you are depressed. It is equally important to avoid terrible arguments or expressions of outrage.… — Andrew Solomon
People sometimes say that you must believe in feelings deep inside, otherwise you'd never be confident of things like 'My wife loves me'. But this… — Richard Dawkins
The fact that the most powerful and significant connections in our lives are (at the time) invisible to us seems to me a compelling argument… — David Foster Wallace
Probably the most dangerous thing about college education, at least in my own case, is that it enables my tendency to over-intellectualize stuff, to get… — David Foster Wallace
Most of our so-called reasoning consists in finding arguments for going on believing as we already do. — James Harvey Robinson
The party told you to reject the evidence of your eyes and ears. It was their final, most essential command. His heart sank as he… — George Orwell
Man is always something worse or something better than an animal; and a mere argument from animal perfection never touches him at all. Thus, in… — Gilbert K. Chesterton
I even accept for the sake of argument that sexual orgies eliminate social tensions and ought to be encouraged. — Antonin Scalia
When observers look back 50 years from now, the arguments supporting Florida's ban on same-sex marriage, though just as sincerely held [as views of those… — Robert Lewis Hinkle
The counter-argument would be, so what if my sexual relationships are superficial, one can still have satisfying and rewarding relationships with friends, or parents, or… — Chester Brown
So far as this argument is concerned nonhuman animals and infants and retarded humans are in the same category; and if we use this argument… — Peter Singer
Talk about the flag or drugs or crime (never about race or class or justice) and follow the yellow brick road to the wonderful land… — Lewis H. Lapham

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