Argument Quotes

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She will look at you as women look at men, and she will judge you as a woman judge men...not on the strength of their… — Orson Scott Card
People in general attach too much importance to words. They are under the illusion that talking effects great results. As a matter of fact, words… — Theodore Dreiser
The basic project of art is always to make the world whole and comprehensible, to restore it to us in all its glory and its… — Robert Hughes
All opinions are not equal. Some are a very great deal more robust, sophisticated and well supported in logic and argument than others. — Douglas Adams
One thing he discovered with a great deal of astonishment was that music held for him more then just pleasure. There was meat to it.… — Charles Frazier
Beware the irrational, however seductive. Shun the 'transcendent' and all who invite you to subordinate or annihilate yourself. Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and… — Christopher Hitchens
There are few ways in which good people do more harm to those who take them seriously than to defend the gospel with arguments that… — Henry B. Eyring
The most perfidious way of harming a cause consists of defending it deliberately with faulty arguments. — Friedrich Nietzsche
The purpose of argument is to change the nature of truth. — Frank Herbert
[M]an has been accustomed, ever since he was a boy, to having a dozen incompatible philosophies dancing about together inside his head. He doesn't think… — C.S. Lewis
What good the prophet in the wilderness may do is incremental and personal. It's good for us to hear someone speak the irrational truth. It's… — George Saunders
The Jewish sages also tell us that God dances when His children defeat Him in argument, when they stand on their feet and use their… — Mary Doria Russell
..The argument he was conducting with his neighbor as to whether the English magician had gone mad because he was a magician, or because he… — Susanna Clarke
She tried to be calm, and leave things to take their course; and tried to dwell much on this argument of rational dependence â€“ â€œSurely,… — Jane Austen
The cure for a fallacious argument is a better argument, not the suppression of ideas. — Carl Sagan
My argument is that history is made by men and women, just as it can also be unmade and rewritten, always with various silence and… — Edward Said
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth… — Leo Tolstoy
My argument against God was that the universe seemed so cruel and unjust. But how had I got this idea of just and unjust? A… — C.S. Lewis
The strongest of all arguments against the interference of the public with purely personal conduct, is that when it does interfere, the odds are that… — John Stuart Mill
Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument. — Thomas Sowell

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