Quotes About Argument

Every self is an argument trying to prove its identity

You can't reason someone out of a notion that they didn't reason themselves into.

Now, why did he have a hard time believing that?...Because it would be the first time in your life that you ever won an argument with Lord Thick and Knotty Pate. (Morgan)

Where would you even look for evidence of a reality that by your own argument can't exist?

Aunt Florence told me never to mention that shrub word again," said Gavin solemnly, as he joined Norah on the verandah. "She says when we get back to the city she'll check with the university and then she'll know she's right—but she wants the arguing to stop.

It has been said that arguing against globalization is like arguing against the laws of gravity.

In science it often happens that scientists say, "You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken," and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.

If the facts are against you, argue the law. If the law is against you, argue the facts. If the law and the facts are against you, pound the table and yell like hell

Newton, who resuscitated the Democritean idea of space, had tried to patch things up by arguing that space was God's sensorium. No one has ever understood what Newton meant by 'God's sensorium', perhaps not even Newton himself.

Vegetarians, despite the variety of ways in which to argue their perspective, always appear to be saying "Don't eat meat." Meat eaters cannot make sense of this because a part of their definition of what makes sense is eating meat.

You think an essay should have a hypothesis, a conclusion, should argue points. You really do bore me.

They were like two landowners in Pompeii arguing over who had the better view of Vesuvius.

Nothing someone says before the word "but" really counts.

Faith is an excitement and an enthusiasm: it is a condition of intellectual magnificence to which we must cling as to a treasure, and not squander on our way through life in the small coin of empty words, or in exact and priggish argument.

Matters of religion should never be matters of controversy. We neither argue with a lover about his taste, nor condemn him, if we are just, for knowing so human a passion.

During one walk, Jack engaged in the first metaphysical argument that he can remember. It concerned the nature of the future: Is it like a line that you can't see or a line that is not yet drawn? He would delight in such arguments for the rest of his life.

When a politician, on a subject implicating science says, 'the debate is over', you may be sure of two things: the debate is raging, and he is losing it.

In those days, living as we did in the country, without the dubious benefits of radio or television, we had to rely on such primitive forms of amusement as books, quarrelling, parties, and the laughter of our friends, so naturally parties—particularly the more flamboyant ones—became red-letter days, preceded by endless preparations. Even when they were successfully over, they provided days of delightfully acrimonious argument as to how they could have been better managed.

One of my clients told me the story of the optimist and the pessimist who were arguing about philosophy. The optimist declares,"This is the best of all possible worlds." The pessimist sighs and says, "You're right.

Lawyers spend a great deal of time shovelling smoke.

Necessity is the plea for every infringement of human freedom. It is the argument of tyrants; it is the creed of slaves.

'For example' is not proof.

Error of opinion may be tolerated where reason is left free to combat it.