Arguments Quotes
783 quotes by 628 authors
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He realized at last that the arguments of pessimism were powerless to comfort him
— Joris-Karl Huysmans
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...but I could not sleep without proper covering and spent the rest of the night rewriting lost arguments from my past, altering history so that…
— Patrick deWitt
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She wasn't, nor ever had been, under the illusion that marriage was a relationship characterized by endless bliss and romance. Throw any two people together,…
— Nicholas Sparks
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I prefer to make up my own quotes and attribute them to very smart people, so that I can use them to win arguments
— Albert Einstein
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Some communities don't permit open, honest inquiry about the things that matter most. Lots of people have voiced a concern, expressed a doubt, or raised…
— Rob Bell
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There's no winning arguments with your parents
— Wendelin Van Draanen
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It is easier to hide behind philosophical arguments, heavily footnoted for effect, than it is to admit our hurts, our confusions, our loves, and our…
— Ravi Zacharias
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... But I'm annoying you to no purpose with my arguments. A person whose house is only open on the west can't see the sun…
— Sarat Chandra Chattopadhyay
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Never argue with a fool, onlookers may not be able to tell the difference.
— Mark Twain
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To straddle the middle ground and win elections, we have to be in charge of the political agenda. This can only be done by not…
— Lee Kuan Yew
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Arguments from authority carry little weight – authorities have made mistakes in the past. They will do so again in the future. Perhaps a better…
— Carl Sagan
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Father sighed. “Please spare me these arguments of yours.†“Whose arguments should I use?
— Franny Billingsley
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Of course, there would always be arguments. That is the nature of Woman. They like the mutual exchange of dirty laundry, a bit of screaming,…
— Charles Bukowski
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What irritated her most was that they kept brushing off her arguments with patronizing smiles, making her feel like a teenager being quizzed on her…
— Steig Larsson
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Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.
— Julian Assange
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Purchasing power is a license to purchase power. The old proletariat sold its labour power in order to subsist; what little leisure time it had…
— Raoul Vaneigem
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I understand the arguments about how the billions of dollars spent to put men on the moon could have been used to fight poverty and…
— Randy Pausch
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Before he (Francis Bacon) came along, people conducted all their arguments through a series of logical fallacies or simply shouting louder than the other guy,…
— Kevin Hearne
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It is a predisposition of human nature to consider an unpleasant idea untrue, and then it is easy to find arguments against it.
— Sigmund Freud
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By all means, avoid words—threats, complaints, justification, narratives, reframing, attempts to win arguments, supplications; avoid words!
— Nassim Nicholas Taleb
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