Abstract Quote by Kenny Smith

Arguments are often like melodramas - they have a predictable beginning, middle, and end.

— Gay Hendricks

Argumentation is a human enterprise that is embedded in a larger social and psychological context. This context includes (1) the total psyches of the…

— Peter Kreeft

The diversity of physical arguments and opinions embraces all sorts of methods.

— Michel de Montaigne

Arguments are like eels: however logical, they may slip from the minds weak grasp unless fixed there by imagery and style.

— Alain de Botton

[T]he seeds of [the Argument Culture] can be found our classrooms, where a teacher will introduce an article or an idea . . .…

— Deborah Tannen

“Let us, thusly, embrace the assumption that to each advocate of a respective paradigm within his respective bubble, the phenomenological gaps between himself and…

— Ashim Shanker

Our whole educational system, from the elementary schools to the universities, is increasingly turning out people who have never heard enough conflicting arguments to…

— Thomas Sowell

Because of mathematics precise, formal character, mathematical arguments remain sound even when they are long and complex. In contast, common sense arguments can generally…

— Jacob T. Schwartz

We know that the ability to take on complex ideas, to handle the notion of a multiplicity of viewpoints, to deal in abstract thought…

— Michael Rosen

Reducing every issue to an argument can become stale but it's often a very good way of clarifying issues.

— Evan Davis

A Discussion Is The Way For Gaining Knowledge... An Argument Is The Way For Gaining Enemies.

— Pacifiersucker

Highly technical philosophical arguments of the sort many philosophers favor are absent here. That is because I have a prior problem to deal with.…

— Daniel Dennett