Argument Quotes

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In more than 20 years I've spent studying the issue, I have yet to hear a convincing argument that college football has anything do with… — Buzz Bissinger
I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions,… — Richard LaGravenese
Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that… — Jose Padilha
Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best. — Rene Descartes
It seems that I must bid the Muse to pack, / Choose Plato and Plotinus for a friend / Until imagination, ear and eye, /… — William Butler Yeats
... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe… — Massimo Pigliucci
The Old Testament contains in many places, but especially in the book of Job, one of the most far-reaching defenses ever written of wilderness, of… — Bill McKibben
Fighting is not the best way to win an argument. If carried to its ultimate conclusions, the old idea of "an eye for an eye"… — Sterling W Sill
LEAD, n. A heavy blue-gray metal much used ... as a counterpoise to an argument of such weight that it turns the scale of debate… — Ambrose Bierce
The noble Lord (Stanley) was the Prince Rupert to the Parliamentary army--his valour did not always serve his own cause. — Benjamin Disraeli
I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension. — Benjamin Disraeli
Obstinacy and heat in argument are surest proofs of folly. Is there anything so stubborn, obstinate, disdainful, contemplative, grave, or serious, as an ass? — Michel de Montaigne
Where we desire to be informed 'tis good to contest with men above ourselves; but to confirm and establish our opinions, 'tis best to argue… — Thomas Browne
Painting is the same kind of problem as unfolding a long, sustained interlocked argument... It is a proposition commanded by a single unity of conception. — Winston Churchill
If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument — Ralph Waldo Emerson
The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed… — Samuel Johnson
I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me. — Oliver Goldsmith
In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading. — Oliver Goldsmith
Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth… — Rainer Maria Rilke
There was an ancient Roman lawyer, of great fame in the history of Roman jurisprudence, whom they called Cui Bono, from his having first introduced… — Edmund Burke

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