Argument Quotes
1783 quotes by 1284 authors
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I would like to be judged on the validity of my arguments, not as a victim.
— Ayaan Hirsi Ali
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The core of science is not a mathematical modeling--it is intellectual honesty. It is a willingness to have our certainties about the world constrained by…
— Sam Harris
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Our tendency in the midst of suffering is to turn on God. To get angry and bitter and shake our fist at the sky and…
— Rob Bell
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The thing I hate about an argument is that it always interrupts a discussion.
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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A defeated argument that refuses to be obliterated can remain very alive.
— Amartya Sen
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It is only on the battlefield of ideas that the best ones can be recognized and ultimately prevail. Only those afraid of the truth seek…
— Glenn Beck
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I can't count the times that upon telling someone I am vegetarian, he or she responded by pointing out an inconsistency in my lifestyle or…
— Jonathan Safran Foer
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There's an argument for saying that brave men deserve what they get, but it's a serious business forcing cowards to stand in harm's way.
— K.J. Parker
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Of our thinking it is but the upper surface that we shape into articulate thought; underneath the region of argument and conscious discourse lies the…
— Thomas Carlyle
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The argument goes something like this: "I refuse to prove that I exist," says God, "for proof denies faith, and without faith I am nothing.
— Douglas Adams
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Our kindness may be the most persuasive argument for that which we believe.
— Gordon B. Hinckley
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to rest one's case on faith means to concede that reason is on the side of one's enemies- that one has no rational arguments to…
— Ayn Rand
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My most recent faith struggle is not one of intellect. I don’t really do that anymore. Sooner or later you just figure out there are…
— Donald Miller
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It is only the intellectually lost who ever argue.
— Oscar Wilde
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I didn't like having reasonable arguments thrown at me.
— Richelle Mead
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I was asking if unwinding kills you, or if it leaves you alive somehow. C'mon—it's not like we haven't thought about it." (...) What do…
— Neal Shusterman
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Prejudice, not being founded on reason, cannot be removed by argument.
— Samuel Johnson
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I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.
— Michael Palin
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The resting place of the mind is the heart. The only thing the mind hears all day is clanging bells and noise and argument, and…
— Elizabeth Gilbert
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When we got to the part where we had to improvise an argument in a poetic language, I got cold feet. "I can't do this,"…
— Patti Smith
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