Argument Quotes

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The Gospel is not presented to mankind as an argument about religious principals. Nor is it offered as a philosophy of life. Christianity is a… — Massey H. Shepherd
...for two centuries supporters of the Electoral College have built their arguments on a series of faulty premises. The Electoral College is a gross violation… — George C. Edwards III
Men write many fine and plausible arguments in support of monarchy, but the fact remains that where every man has a voice, brutal laws are… — Mark Twain
I certainly do care about measuring educational results. But what is an 'educational result?' The twinkling eyes of my students, together with their heartfelt and… — Keith Devlin
There is only one way to defeat the enemy, and that is to write as well as one can. The best argument is an undeniably… — Saul Bellow
One can never win an argument with ignorance. — Wes Fesler
The argument advanced by the supporters of the theory of hereditary transmission does not furnish a satisfactory explanation of the cause of the inequalities and… — Swami Abhedananda
Ordinarily logic is divided into the examination of ideas, judgments, arguments, and methods. The two latter are generally reduced to judgments, that is, arguments are… — Andre-Marie Ampere
The Internet may fairly be regarded as a never-ending worldwide conversation. The government may not, through the , interrupt that conversation... As the most participatory… — Stewart Dalzell
Further, the same Arguments which explode the Notion of Luck, may, on the other side, be useful in some Cases to establish a due comparison… — Abraham de Moivre
This incomparable Author having at length been prevailed upon to appear in public, has in this Treatise given a most notable instance of the extent… — Edmond Halley
It appears to me that those who rely simply on the weight of authority to prove any assertion, without searching out the arguments to support… — Vincenzo Galilei
The writings of leading ID proponents reveal that the designer postulated by their argument is the God of Christianity. — John E. Jones III
Here is the cosmological proof of the existence of God - the design argument of Paley - updated and refurbished. The fine tuning of the… — Edward Robert Harrison
Teach him a certain refinement in sorting out and selecting his arguments, with an affection for relevance and so for brevity. Above all let him… — Michel de Montaigne
As for our pupils talk, let his virtue and his sense of right and wrong shine through it and have no guide but reason. Make… — Michel de Montaigne
...it is absurd to try to confine our knowledge and belief to matters which are conclusively established by sound deductive arguments. The demand for certainty… — J. L. Mackie
Reason is universal because no attempted challenge to its results can avoid appealing to reason in the end-by claiming, for example, that what was presented… — Thomas Nagel
Hence our verdict on these reformulated versions of St. Anselm's argument must be as follows. They cannot, perhaps, be said to prove or establish their… — Alvin Plantinga
You must have a training routine so that what you do happens automatically. If I got up in the morning and thought about going for… — Robert de Castella

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