Arguments Quotes

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What use are the best of arguments when they can be destroyed by force? — Jules Verne
The Besicovitch style is architectural. He builds out of simply elements a delicate and complicated architectural structure, usually with a hierarchical plan, and then, when… — Freeman Dyson
Oh, my dear Kepler, how I wish that we could have one hearty laugh together. Here, at Padua, is the principal professor of philosophy, whom… — Galileo Galilei
When a man is afraid and accedes to fear, he will always find arguments to justify his own surrender. — Natan Sharansky
I'm not entitled to have an opinion unless I can state the arguments against my position better than the people who are in opposition. I… — Charlie Munger
A human group transforms itself into a crowd when it suddenly responds to a suggestion rather than to reasoning, to an image rather than to… — Jean Francois Revel
People might be making too much of me maturing and growing; Iâ€™m still the same person. I still like to joke around and have fun… — Patrick Kane
Armaments do not, generally speaking, cause wars. This notion, the logical crux of all arguments in favor of disarmament, turns the causal relationship upside down.… — James Burnham
The measure of (mental) health is flexibility (not comparison to some 'norm'), the freedom to learn from experience ... to be influenced by reasonable arguments… — David Brin
A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can… — Ann Coulter
Political correctness will die as it lived - kicking and screaming ad hominem abuse as a substitute for arguments. — Wendy McElroy
Living with the liberals, you get to hear their arguments, fight with them all the time. Keeps me alert. — John Stossel
One of the great commandments of science is, 'Mistrust arguments from authority'. (Scientists, being primates, and thus given to dominance hierarchies, of course do not… — Carl Sagan
All the political seers and sorcerers seem to be agreed that the coming Presidential campaign will be full of bitterness, and that most of it… — H. L. Mencken
Of all eloquence a nickname is the most concise; of all arguments the most unanswerable. — William Hazlitt
I doubt God keeps track of how many arguments we win; God may indeed keep track of how well we love. — Philip Yancey
When Jesus got the big questions, he didn't present arguments. He presented himself. — Timothy Keller
Use soft words in hard arguments. — Henry George Bohn
Beware of long arguments and long beards. — George Santayana
Those whose cause is just will never lack good arguments. — Euripides

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