Arguments Quotes
783 quotes by 628 authors
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Before impugning an opponent's motives, even when they legitimately may be impugned, answer his arguments.
— Sidney Hook
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Notwithstanding these major arguments the wave theory initially did not meet with complete acceptance.
— Max von Laue
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When you're on tour you definitely don't want lots of arguments. It's very important that everybody gets on because you're in close proximity a great…
— Joan Armatrading
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Supreme Court arguments and decisions are fascinating to a few of us and really pretty boring to most.
— Dan Abrams
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The terminology of philosophical art is coercive: arguments are powerful and best when they are knockdown, arguments force you to a conclusion, if you believe…
— Robert Nozick
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These arguments on each side (and many more might be produced) are so plausible, that I am apt to suspect, they may, the one as…
— David Hume
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The continual intrusion into our minds of the hammering noises of arguments and propaganda can lead to two kinds of reactions. It may lead to…
— Joost Meerloo
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It seems strange to make a priori arguments about the relative performance of governments and the markets in health care when there is so much…
— John Quiggin
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Christianity has been successfully attacked and marginalized… because those who professed belief were unable to defend the faith from attack, even though its attackers’ arguments…
— William Wilberforce
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In an age in which infidelity abounds, do we observe parents carefully instructing their children in the principles of faith which they profess? Or do…
— William Wilberforce
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Yes, I share your concern: how to program well -though a teachable topic- is hardly taught. The situation is similar to that in mathematics, where…
— Edsger Dijkstra
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The supposition that the future resembles the past, is not founded on arguments of any kind, but is derived entirely from habit.
— David Hume
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..all arguments concerning existence are founded on the relation of cause and effect; that our knowledge of that relation is derived entirely from experience; and…
— David Hume
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This can never become popular, and, indeed, has no occasion to be so; for fine-spun arguments in favour of useful truths make just as little…
— Immanuel Kant
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.…
— Joseph Addison
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The First Amendment reads more like a dream than a law, and no other nation, so far as I know, has been crazy enough to…
— Kurt Vonnegut
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Forgiveness is the most effective way of dealing with arguments; altruism and forgiveness bring humanity together so that no conflict, however serious, will go beyond…
— Dalai Lama
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Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they do…
— Michael Servetus
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws them from reason and philosophy.
— Joseph Addison
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One of the most compelling arguments for the Christian faith is the simple fact that it survived.
— Andy Stanley
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