Quotes About Argument

I hope you still think that ideas are more dangerous than material thing," Quentin said. "That is what you were arguing at lunch." Anthony pondered while glancing from side to side before he answered, "Yes, I do. All material danger is limited, whereas interior danger is unlimited. It's more dangerous for you to hate than kill, isn't it?

but it was a religion which enabled him to despise himself and everyone else without despising the universe, thus allowing him at once in argument or conversation to the advantages of the pessimist and the optimist.

TURNER Fine. He's not a punk. He's a weenie. OLDER BROTHER Objection. PROSECUTION Is that your only move? Let me guess, you got an A in Objections at law school. OLDER BROTHER (to judge) I don't see how my client being a weenie is relevant.

He never seemed to recognize the quiet background of superiority. When she dropped an argument he always thought he had silenced her; when she laughed he thought it tribute to his wit.

Silence is argument carried on by other means.

Fuck you," he said, resorting to that last argument of vice presidents.

He was once so struck by something I said to him in the course of an argument that he immediately wrote it on a scrap of paper and stuck it to our refrigerator, where it stayed for nearly a decade. The quote? I'm going to be mad at you for the rest of my life.

Hundreds of them, Susie thought. Easily hundreds. In a family where the telephone bill was a monthly argument, how could such a wealth of socks possibly have accumulated? she wondered idly. How, with so many permutations, were there so few mates? One of the burning issues of our time, she thought self-derisively.

Discussion is an exchange of knowledge; argument, an exchange of ignorance.

Statistics can be made to prove anything — even the truth.

As to the pamphlet which he enclosed, proving vegetarianism to be an enfeebling and ultimately fatal practice, I confute it by the simple statement that I — Corno di Bassetto — have been a vegetarian these ten years. Pamphlet or no pamphlet, a mind the calibre of mine cannot derive its nutriment from cows.

Once we learn that different economic theories say different things partly because they are based on different ethical and political values, we will have the confidence to discuss economics for what it really is - a political argument - and not a 'science' in which there is clear right and wrong.

There is hardly a better way to avoid discussion than by releasing an argument from the control of the present and by saying that only the future will reveal its merits.

Don't start an argument with somebody who has a microphone when you don't. They'll make you look like chopped liver.

Fighting newspaper editors for the last word was a losing proposition.

When we believe we won't get through to the offending party, we often increase the intensity and lengthen our arguments. This does not help---and usually hurts. We may not recognize that our tone of voice or the sheer number of sentences may be the culprit.

You're arguing in a circle," I said. "In a spiral," said Lamiel, "which is the best way to argue.

Winning an argument is of no value. What you want is to win a convert. And people who lose arguments are more likely to beef up their current convictions instead of converting to your way of thinking.

If you can't convince them, confuse them.

Using insult instead of argument is the sign of a small mind.

Who trades in contradictions will not be contradicted.

La acción de impedir los beneficios del otro mediante una creíble capacidad para detener la agresión en sus fases iniciales se conoció como «disuasión por negación»,[5] mientras que el aumento de los costes se denominó «disuasión por castigo». La negación era esencialmente otra palabra para denominar «defensa efectiva», la cual, si se comunicaba con suficiente antelación podía proporcionar un argumento convincente contra la agresión

situarse en el ámbito del Sistema 2, pero ha de entenderse sobre todo como la capacidad para elaborar y convertir en argumentos persuasivos lo que esencialmente es Sistema 1.

Maybe we should come to our opinions by using wisdom, logic, evidence, so much of those things that we know we are right and can't be swayed. Then we should hope for an argument against us that makes us think, "I could be wrong", and be willing to listen