Argument Quotes

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One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived. — Andy Stanley
An Inconvenient Truth is so convincing that it makes opposers of the argument as credible as Holocaust deniers. — Jon Niccum
Assertion is not argument; to contradict the statement of an opponent is not proof that you are correct. — Samuel Johnson
There is little of the true philosophic spirit in Aquinas. He does not, like the Platonic Socrates, set out to follow wherever the argument may… — Bertrand Russell
Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief — Petrarch
No mistake is so commonly made by clever people as that of assuming a cause to be bad because the arguments of its supporters are,… — Thomas Huxley
The judge weighs the arguments and puts a brave face on the matter, and since there must be a decision, decides as he can, and… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
It now seems to me that the findings of more than fifty years of DNA research have provided materials for a new and enormously powerful… — Antony Flew
The idea comes before the logical argument. — Gerald Abrahams
...nuclear threats and nuclear weapons are the last argument of weak, stressed and irresponsible politicians. People must act very quicky to stop the movement to… — Alla Yaroshinskaya
More people have been brought into the church by the kindness of real Christian love than by all the theological arguments in the world. — William Barclay
Some read for style, and some for argument: one has little care about the sentiment, he observes only how it is expressed; another regards not… — Samuel Johnson
Again the message to experimentalists is: Be sensible but don't be impressed too much by negative arguments. If at all possible, try it and see… — Francis Crick
I had inherited what my father called the art of the advocate, or the irritating habit of looking for the flaw in any argument. — John Mortimer
Interfaith dialogue is a must today, and the first step in establishing it is forgetting the past, ignoring polemical arguments, and giving precedence to common… — Fethullah Gulen
Affect not little shifts and subterfuges to avoid the force of an argument. — Isaac Watts
When all the arguments have been forgotten, this central fact will remain. The two nations fought a single war, and their quarrels were the quarrels… — Henry L. Stimson
The child who dwells inside us trusts that there are wise men somewhere who know the truth. — Czeslaw Milosz
Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to develop… — Thomas Sowell
I simply cannot accept that there are, on every story, two equal and logical sides to an argument. — Edward R. Murrow

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