Argument Quotes And Sayings

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“The aim of argument, or of discussion, should not be victory, but progress.”
– Joseph Joubert

“Silence is one of the hardest arguments to refute.”
– Josh Billings

“No rational argument will have a rational effect on a man who does not want to adopt a rational attitude.”
– Karl Popper

“Why do people always assume that volume will succeed when logic won’t?”
– L.J. Smith

“When all are wrong, everyone is right.”
– La Lehaussee

“The long term versus the short term argument is one used by losers.”
– Larry Adler

“Heat is in proportion to the want of true knowledge.”
– Laurence Sterne

“The business of art lies just in this, — to make that understood and felt which, in the form of an argument, might be incomprehensible and inaccessible.”
– Leo Tolstoy

“Anyone who conducts an argument by appealing to authority is not using his intelligence; he is just using his memory.”
– Leonardo da Vinci

“Behind every argument is someone’s ignorance.”
– Louis D. Brandeis

“When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.”
– Marcus Tullius Cicero

“Fear not those who argue but those who dodge.”
– Marie Ebner-Eschenbach

“There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.”
– Mark Twain

“In argument similes are like songs in love; they describe much, but prove nothing.”
– Matthew Prior

“It was completely fruitless to quarrel with the world, whereas the quarrel with oneself was occasionally fruitful and always, she had to admit, interesting.”
– May Sarton

“To win a dispute is to gain a chicken and lose a cow.”
– Mexican Saying

“I am very cautious of people who are absolutely right, especially when they are vehemently so.”
– Michael Palin

“He who establishes his argument by noise and command shows that his reason is weak.”
– Michel Eyquem De Montaigne

“When a thing is said to be not worth refuting you may be sure that either it is flagrantly stupid — in which case all comment is superfluous — or it is something formidable, the very crux of the problem.”
– Miguel de Unamuno

“Any fact is better established by two or three good testimonies than by a thousand arguments.”
– Nathaniel Emmons

“There is no arguing with him, for if his pistol misses fire, he knocks you down with the butt end of it.”
– Oliver Goldsmith

“Myself when young did eagerly frequent doctor and saint, and heard great argument about it and about: but evermore came out by the same door as in I went.”
– Omar Khayyam

“Arguments are to be avoided; they are always vulgar and often convincing.”
– Oscar Wilde

“It is not necessary to understand things in order to argue about them.”
– Pierre Beaumarchais

“I really do not know, Socrates, how to express what I mean. For somehow or other our arguments, on whatever ground we rest them, seem to turn round and walk away from us.”
– Plato

“Soft words win hard hearts.”
– Proverb

“Two dogs strive for a bone and the third one runs off with it.”
– Proverb

“In a heated argument we are apt to lose sight of the truth.”
– Publilius Syrus

“The best way I know of to win an argument is to start by being in the right.”
– Quintin Hogg

“The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands – we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.”
– Richard Brinsley Sheridan

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