Quotes About Argument

the Law of Controversy: Passion was inversely proportional to the amount of real information available.

Plato's Socrates is not persuasive at all. He wins every argument, but never manages to win over an opponent. He has to fight every inch of the way for any assent he gets, and gets it, so to speak, at the point of a dagger.

The whole of his argument centers on this fact; having established that creation can contain God, and show us the path to God, Athanasius now uses the statement that man is a part of creation to argue that the Incarnation is reasonable, that God can be present in the person of the man Jesus.

Gladstone's was neither the first nor the last of great minds to be led astray by religious fervor, but in the case of his Studies on Homer, his convictions took the particular unfortunate turn of trying to marry Homer's pagan pantheon with the Christian creed. ... The Times was not amused: "Perfectly honest in his intentions, he takes up a theory, and no matter how ridiculous it is in reality, he can make it appear respectable in argument. Too clever by half!

El más sencillo argumento de la realidad es inalcanzable para el ficcionador más delirante.

Since Logic derives from postulates, it never has, and never will, change a postulate. And a religious belief is a system of postulates ... so how can a man fight a native superstition with logic? Or anything else ...?

To argue with those who have renounced the use and authority of reason is as futile as to administer medicine to the dead.

Or so Feynman argued: the philosophers themselves, he said, were always a tempo behind, like tourists moving in after the explorers have left.

Unfortunately, we live in a country where different opinions are no longer acceptable. There's no point arguing with someone who thinks they are right without believing they could ever be wrong.

If you would argue until the end of life, the infallible creature must alone be right.

They were like two philosophers starting from the same initial premise of life and each, by irrefutable argument, arriving at a diametrically opposite conclusion. Yet these two conclusions were like twin brothers of the same flesh and heritage and blood.

the only argument you ever win is the one you don't have.

But I had learned long ago not to argue with those who need to revise the past.

arguing with others is folly and the knowledge of one generation cannot be passed down to the next. Those may seem cynical sentiments, but there are certain truths you keep inside you and do not defend lest you cheapen and then lose them altogether.

And by the way, you clearly don't know me better than Fang does. Do you see Fang arguing with me? No, you do not.

The strongest argument against totalitarianism may be a recognition of a universal human nature; that all humans have innate desires for life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. The doctrine of the blank slate... is a totalitarian's dream.

I'm not going to argue with people about the existence of God. I have not the vaguest idea of whether the universe was created by an intelligence.

I have long been one of those tedious people who rails against the coronation of 'student-athletes.' I have heard the argument that big-time athletics bring in loads of money to universities. I don't believe the money goes anywhere other than back into the sports teams, but that's another story.

If you're going to make the argument that Fox is conservative, you can't make it very easily unless you diminish my role.

If thou makest a statement concerning women, lo, she shall immediately try to disprove it straightway. She goeth by contraries.

It's better not to argue with women... When people push boundaries too far, it's not because they are strong but because they are weak. But maybe weakness is not the worst quality for a woman.

With all women gentleness is the most persuasive and powerful argument.

You can certainly go to war about it, but to me it seems pointless.

Throw in the towel right off the bat. Women argue in ways that aren't rational to men.