Argument Quotes
1783 quotes by 1284 authors
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It is the mind that tells you that the mind is there. Don't be deceived. All the endless arguments about the mind are produced by…
— Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj
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Paleontologists [fossil experts] have paid an exorbitant price for Darwin's argument. We fancy ourselves as the only true students of life's history, yet to preserve…
— Stephen Jay Gould
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I doubt if there is any single individual within the scientific community who could cope with the full range of [creationist] arguments without the help…
— David M. Raup
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Perhaps the best argument...that the Big Bang supports theism is the obvious unease with which it is greeted by some atheist physicists. At times this…
— Christopher Isham
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Contrary to the popular notion that only creationism relies on the supernatural, evolutionism must as well, since the probabilities of random formation of life are…
— Chandra Wickramasinghe
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As a child, I heard in my home doctors and ambulance men say, 'Mrs. Stewart, you must've done something to provoke him.' 'Mrs. Stewart, it…
— Patrick Stewart
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My parents only had one argument in 45 years. It lasted 43 years.
— Cathy Ladman
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Put the argument into a concrete shape, into an image, some hard phrase, round and solid as a ball, which they can see and handle…
— Ralph Waldo Emerson
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There is nothing very odd about lambs disliking birds of prey, but this is no reason for holding it against large birds of prey that…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Whoever builds his faith exclusively on demonstrative proofs and deductive arguments, builds a faith on which it is impossible to rely. For he is affected…
— Ibn Arabi
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When you plant lettuce, if it does not grow well, you don't blame the lettuce. You look for reasons it is not doing well. It…
— Nhat Hanh
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Access to supercomputers. The science is well ahead of our ability to implement it. It's quite clear that if we could run our models at…
— Julia Slingo
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The notion that somehow or another they'll (Iran) put it in a picnic basket and hand it to some terrorist group is merely an argument…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Personally I do not resort to force- not even the force of law- to advance moral reforms. I prefer education, argument, persuasion, and above all…
— Rutherford B. Hayes
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Truth is the proper and sufficient antagonist to error, and has nothing to fear from the conflict, unless, by human interposition, disarmed of her natural…
— Thomas Jefferson
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A novel should be an experience and convey an emotional truth rather than arguments.
— Joyce Cary
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The medical argument for animal testing doesn't stand up. Even if it did, I don't think we should kill other species. We think we're so…
— Paul McCartney
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For they are yet ear-kissing arguments.
— William Shakespeare
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The first and continuing argument for the curtailment of working hours and the raising of the minimum age was that education was necessary in a…
— Grace Abbott
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The biggest farce of man's history has been the argument that wars are fought to save civilization.
— Charles E. McKenzie
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