Quotes About Argument

No matter what argument you make against evolution, the response is, 'Well, you know, it's possible to believe in evolution and believe in God.' Yes, and it's possible to believe in Spiderman and believe in God, but that doesn't prove Spiderman is true.

Scholars will argue with each other about everything.

I can't argue my way out of a paper bag.

I've argued for a long time here... that I think that one of the things that is absolutely killing parity is the individual maximum salary.

I do think culture is an argument, and that was part of the way I was brought up. People at a social occasion in Ireland will start shouting and arguing. When the Yeats family lived in Bedford Park, they had to go round to the neighbours to say, 'You might think we are fighting, but this is the way we talk to each other.'

What is faith? If you believe something because you have evidence for it, or rational argument, that is not faith. So faith seems to be believing something despite the absence of evidence or rational argument for it.

This contrasted with logos, which also meant 'word' but in the sense of a truth which can be argued and maybe changed (as in, 'what's the word on . . .?'). Unlike logoi, which were written in prose, myths were recorded in verse.

Who overrefines his argument brings himself to grief.

Neither exhortations to virtue nor the argument of approaching death should divert us from literature; for in a good mind it excites the love of virtue, and dissipates, or at least diminishes, the fear of death.

Benim mücerret nazariyelerime kar?? muar?zlar?m?n müptezel te?bihler ve mü?ahhas delillerle müdafaa ettikleri tez, bu cahil efkar-? umumiyeyi aldatabilirdi.

Never resolve with violence what can be addressed with cutting commentary.

The detectives later learned that Phyllis had told Melton that she felt sorry for Richard Ramirez because he hadn't gotten proper representation with the Hernandezes. Melton thought Ramirez was a mad dog that needed killing. An argument ensued, which grew into a senseless murderous rage.

although we have a substantial body of evidence to support this conclusion, and we hold it with a high degree of confidence, it remains possible, albeit extremely improbable, that new evidence or arguments may compel us to revise our view of this matter.

philosophers will forever wrangle about the true nature of science as a prelude to their dream of the final knockdown argument which will silence all doubt and opposition to their own favorite utopia.

And the Church is directed to send the gospel to every creature. We pray for the salvation of all men, but not for the loss of a single human being. Christ interceded even for his murderers on the cross. Here, then, is a practical difficulty. The decree of reprobation cannot be made an object of prayer or preaching, and this is an argument against it. Experience confirms election, but repudiates reprobation.

The corollary of this visceral desire to avoid confrontation at all costs is that debate and argument do not function as a means of resolving differences. Between the extremes of acquiescence and violence there is no middle ground. The

Any time three New Yorkers get into a cab without an argument, a bank has just been robbed.

People would much rather argue their own visions and conceptions about a book than engage in a dialogue with the author, because the author could always trump you with, 'I wrote it.'

There's always been really interesting, diverse black voices talking and arguing and counterpointing.

The best argument against democracy is a five-minute conversation with the average voter.

I find that when I'm in an argument and I'm angry, I can't even form a sentence well. You say something and then later you're like 'That's not even what I meant at all!'

Christopher Hitchens

Some people you struggle to argue with - they've got a lot of strong backing to what they say and what they do.

What I look for in any book is an argument, based on evidence, that changes the way I think about something important.