Argument Quotes

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A definition is the start of an argument, not the end of one. — Neil Postman
My argument is limited to saying that a major new medium changes the structure of discourse; it does so by encouraging certain uses of the… — Neil Postman
Rational arguments don't usually work on religious people. Otherwise, there wouldn't be religious people. — Doris Egan
The very foundation of science is to keep the door open to doubt. Precisely because we keep questioning everything, especially our own premises, we are… — Carlo Rovelli
I took a sheet of paper, divided it into debt and credit columns on the arguments for and against God and immortality. On Christmas Eve… — Joseph McCabe
In sports as in child rearing, marital arguments, or tantrums, the same laws of learning apply; when an emotion is encouraged and the rules permit… — Carol Tavris
In these troubled times we live in, we should remain vigilant and see through populist arguments. — King Albert II
I'd like to do policy and I'd like to do philosophy, I'd like to be able to get into the depth, into the meat of… — Jonathan Krohn
Well, it's 15 years since Sex, Lies And Videotape, and if you hang around long enough you're having the same arguments with just a new… — Steven Soderbergh
The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come up, from scratch,… — Paul Lockhart
I know too well that these arguments from probabilities are imposters, and unless great caution is observed in the use of them, they are apt… — Plato
I've chosen my wedding ring large and heavy to continue forever. But exactly because of that all the time that Dave and I have an… — Carmen Miranda
I hope I make films where you walk away . . . with work to do, arguments to have, things to worry about, things to… — Mike Leigh
I have been, all my life, what is known as a conservationist. It seems clear beyond possibility of argument that any given generation of men… — Roderick Haig-Brown
I can honestly say that there are many forms of atheism that I find far more admirable than many forms of Christianity or of religion… — David Bentley Hart
Argument need not be heated; it can be punctuated with courteous smiles - or sympathetic tears. — J. Sidlow Baxter
We like to continue to believe what we have been accustomed to accept as true, and the resentment aroused when doubt is cast upon any… — James Harvey Robinson
I mean the only thing that is hopefully good about us is after the arguments we can actually still face each other the next day… — John Deacon
In one sense I feel that my book is a one-woman argument against determinism. — Susan Griffin
I know a 'crime against nature' when I see one. It is usually a sign of crimes against nature that we cannot bear to see… — Matthew Scully

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