Quotes About Argument

A wise man told me don't argue with fools. Cause people from a distance can't tell who is who.

In Vegas, I got into a long argument with the man at the roulette wheel over what I considered to be an odd number.

If you cannot prove a man wrong, don't panic. You can always call him names.

I refuse to engage in an intellectual battle with an unarmed man.

Men are apt to mistake the strength of their feeling for the strength of their argument. The heated mind resents the chill touch and relentless scrutiny of logic.

It is impossible to defeat an ignorant man in argument.

The fool tells me his reason; the wise man persuades me with my own.

It is as absurd to argue men, as to torture them, into believing.

Man is a rational animal. He can think up a reason for anything he wants to believe.

The line, often adopted by strong men in controversy, of justifying the means by the end.

The god excuse, the last refuge of a man with no answers and no argument.

When it comes to divide an estate, the politest men quarrel.

There are only two means by which men can deal with one another: guns or logic. Force or persuasion. Those who know that they cannot win by means of logic, have always resorted to guns.

Well," I'd said finally, "I guess I have to invoke the Steelyard. In the absence of a good argument to the contrary, I have to choose the simplest answer. And the simplest answer is that time runs independently in Universe A and Universe B." "Because they are separate causal domains.

Se podían haber planteado todo tipo de argumentos filosóficos sobre si ese enfoque era mejor o peor que lo que estaban haciendo en realidad, pero, en el fondo, la filosofía no contaba demasiado.

Arguing with anonymous strangers on the Internet is a sucker's game

But you couldn't argue with an axe in the attic.

Oh, they used to argue over times, many corporate driver-years lost to it: homeowners, red-faced and sweaty with their own lies, stinking of Old Spice and job-related stress, standing in their glowing yellow doorways brandishing their Seikos and waving

If you need to invoke your academic pedigree or job title for people to believe what you say, then you need a better argument.

Don't start an argument with someone thinking they have the same level of knowledge as you on a particular topic.

Arguing more loudly or strenuously or more articulately than your opponent simply reveals how annoying and obstinate you are.

If her father was Thunder, then George was Smoke - and how could you argue with someone who began to disappear as soon as you opened your mouth?

Confrontational is when I pull my gun. Argumentative is when I pull the trigger.

We entered the house, and there was that pregnant silence in the air, the silence between a husband and wife who have just had words, and it is unlike any other silence except perhaps the awful stillness you hear between the flash of an atomic bomb and the blast.