Argument Quotes

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One of the first things a relationship therapist learns is that couples argue to burn up energy that could be used for something else. In… — Gay Hendricks
There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing. — Elliott Smith
The human being receives the pleasure from music, not from the argument over what it is. — Ornette Coleman
For it is not metres, but a metre-making argument that makes a poem. — Ralph Waldo Emerson
I opposed the Suez war, I opposed the Falklands war. I opposed the Libyan bombing and I opposed the Gulf war and I never believed… — Tony Benn
At bottom the world isn't a joke. We only joke about it to avoid an issue with someone, to let someone know that we know… — Robert Frost
Most couples have not had hundreds of arguments; they've had the same argument hundreds of times. — Gay Hendricks
The impossibility of conceiving that this grand and wondrous universe, with our conscious selves, arose through chance, seems to me the chief argument for â€¨the… — Charles Darwin
Many persons nowadays seem to think that any conclusion must be very scientific if the arguments in favor of it are derived from twitching of… — William James
Rational argument can be defeated by refusing to argue rationally. — Steven Weinberg
When I'm alone, I can sleep crossways in bed without an argument. — Zsa Zsa Gabor
Reasoned arguments and suggestions which make allowance for the full difficulties of the state of war that exists may help, and will always be listened… — Stafford Cripps
Rage can only with difficulty, and never entirely, be brought under the domination of the intelligence, and therefore is not susceptible to any arguments whatsoever. — James A. Baldwin
We all are learning, modifying, or destroying ideas all the time. Rapid destruction of your ideas when the time is right is one of the… — Charlie Munger
When a man finds a conclusion agreeable, he accepts it without argument, but when he finds it disagreeable, he will bring against it all the… — Thucydides
What we have to understand that we have to believe into things which can be proved. Now the time has come that Divine itself has… — Nirmala Srivastava
At the very outset I have to tell you that truth is what it is. You cannot mold it, you cannot change it. It is… — Nirmala Srivastava
Even fairly good students, when they have obtained the solution of the problem and written down neatly the argument, shut their books and look for… — George Polya
Culture is a matrix of infinite possibilities and choices. From within the same culture matrix we can extract arguments and strategies for the degradation and… — Wole Soyinka
What monstrous absurdities and paradoxes have resisted whole batteries of serious arguments, and then crumbled swiftly into dust before the ringing death-knell of a laugh! — Agnes Repplier

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