Argument Quote by Samuel Johnson Download Open image “Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.” — Samuel Johnson ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.7 out of 5 (9 ratings) Copy quoteShare Argument Argument Obliged Found Found you Inspirational Mathematical Obliged Obliged Understanding Sir Argument Statistics Understanding
I have found you an argument; I am not obliged to find you an understanding. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavour to understand him. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them. — Pierre Beaumarchais Copy Share Image
Before you contradict an old man, my fair friend, you should endeavor to understand him. — George Santayana Copy Share Image
when driven to the necessity of explaining, I found that I did not myself understand what I meant. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
You're chained to you reason ... Understanding is only a very small affair, so very small — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
Don't try to understand me, it will just leave u more confused than what u assumed — Kabmello Copy Share Image
Do you understand? I don't want you to do a thing if you don't understand it. — Kristin Cashore Copy Share Image
Don't question what you don't understand unless you're asking questions seeking to understand. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The size of a man's understanding might always be justly measured by his mirth. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Pound St. Paul's Church into atoms, and consider any single atom; it is to be sure, good for nothing; but put all these atoms… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If our aim is to praise, we should forget to criticize; if our aim is to criticize, we should remember to praise — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It is as foolish to make experiments upon the constancy of a friend, as upon the chastity of a wife. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Resolve not to be poor: whatever you have, spend less. Poverty is a great enemy to human happiness; it certainly destroys liberty, and it… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
The basis of all excellence is truth: he that professes love ought to feel its power. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The composition of Shakespeare is a forest, in which oaks extend in the air, interspersed sometimes with weeds and brambles, and sometimes giving shelting… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“The cherubim were never intended as an object of worship, because they were only the appendices to another thing. But a thing is then… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
A flourishing, morally credible media is a vital component in the maintenance of genuinely public talk, argument about common good. — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Preaching to the choir actually arms the choir with arguments and elevates the choir's discourse. There's a reason the right does it and does… — Dan Savage Copy Share Image
Lutherans, whose arguments and mistakes will not be difficult to contest or discover, do not want to attribute any value to works, and they… — Michael Servetus Copy Share Image
Any comprehensive doctrine, religious or secular, can be introduced into any political argument at any time, but I argue that people who do this… — John Rawls Copy Share Image
As opposed to getting into arguments about, well, these folks have been treated fairly so now we're going to be doing things that, very… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
There could be no more powerful argument against mixing religion and government than the success of independent African American churches in placing racial segregation… — Susan Jacoby Copy Share Image
The inner defenses are unconscious. They consist of a kind of magic aura which the mind builds around cherished belief. Arguments which penetrate into… — Arthur Koestler Copy Share Image
On the stage, the characters express themselves more through words than images. So the arguments of the characters and the tension between characters -… — Alan Alda Copy Share Image
One argument goes that recessions are good for female artists because when money flies out the window, women are allowed in the house. The… — Jerry Saltz Copy Share Image
All of the barriers to innovation in the energy sector are arguments for a big commitment to public investment. Only the public sector can… — Ted Nordhaus Copy Share Image
“Arguments led by subjectivity are a waste of time. And, if they take place online, add to that, a waste of one’s keyboard.” — Mokokoma Mokhonoana Copy Share Image
If in the middle of an argument I suddenly fall silent it does not mean you have won... No it means you should probably… — Hussein Nishah Copy Share Image
