Arguments Quotes
783 quotes by 628 authors
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Television is much more difficult because at every moment the network can force you to change things based on their belief about what would make…
— Judd Apatow
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The most important thing for a good marriage is to learn how to argue peaceably.
— Anita Ekberg
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Five years of Prohibition have had, at least, this one benign effect: they have completely disposed of all the favorite arguments of the Prohibitionists. None…
— H. L. Mencken
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What is there to life if a man cannot hear the lonely cry of the whippoorwill or the arguments of the frogs around the pool…
— Chief Seattle
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The best causes tend to attract to their support the worst arguments, which seems to be equally true in the intellectual and in the moral…
— Ronald Fisher
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Tears are not arguments.
— Machado de Assis
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Thirty years ago, many economists argued that inflation was a kind of minor inconvenience and that the cost of reducing inflation was too high a…
— Martin Feldstein
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If you have high IQ, you're really good at finding post-hoc arguments to support your feelings of truthiness.
— Jonathan Haidt
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When there is tension, arguments and money problems, it's tough to do your work. Some people thrive on that. I don't.
— Richard Jenkins
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The free-trade idea, logically applied, will abolish usury; and with usury will disappear the chief bone of contention between labor and capital. But, just at…
— Ezra Heywood
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I am not so sure whether what we do now is art or something not quite art. If I call it art, it is because…
— Allan Kaprow
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You must force yourself to consider opposing arguments. Especially when they challenge your best loved ideas.
— Charlie Munger
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Scientists and theologians can’t offer better than circular arguments, because there are no other kinds of arguments. Bible believers quote the Bible, and scientists quote…
— Frank Schaeffer
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I tend to believe, when you're in a relationship, if you don't fight, it's not a real relationship. You have to have arguments and tensions,…
— Richard LaGravenese
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Science is based on the possibility of objectivity, on the possibility of different people checking out for themselves the observations made by others. Without that…
— Jose Padilha
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Few look for truth; many prowl about for a reputation of profundity by arrogantly challenging whichever arguments are the best.
— Rene Descartes
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... it is because one can build a compelling set of arguments - informed by science and thoroughly compatible with it - that to believe…
— Massimo Pigliucci
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I am bound to furnish my antagonists with arguments, but not with comprehension.
— Benjamin Disraeli
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The arguments for purity of life fail of their due influence, not because they have been considered and confuted, but because they have been passed…
— Samuel Johnson
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Always trust yourself and your own feelings, as opposed to arguments and discussions. If it turns out that you are wrong, then the natural growth…
— Rainer Maria Rilke
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