Quotes About Argument

You might just as well argue with a wolf on the trail of a fat Russian peasant.

misunderstanding is never ended by an argument but by tact, diplomacy, conciliation and a sympathetic desire to see the other person's viewpoint.

This is why no argument is ever won. You lose the argument, you lose. You win the argument, you lose.

I have listened to, engaged in, and watched the effect of thousands of arguments. As a result of all this, I have come to the conclusion that there is only one way under high heaven to get the best of an argument - and that is to avoid it. Avoid it as you would avoid rattlesnakes and earthquakes. Nine times out of ten, an argument ends with each of the contestants more firmly convinced than ever that he is absolutely right.

G. K. Chesterton famously quipped, "There is only one unanswerable argument against Christianity: Christians.

And when people sense that something is coming around the logical corner that they will not to be so, they often just refuse to carefully follow the argument. It's as common as sin, and a large part of it too.

The apologists have shot themselves in the foot.

the translators of the NIV and the Living Bible and other evangelical apologists have dishonestly tampered with the meaning of scripture, using a phony argument (a phone argument!) in order to deceive the readers and disguise an embarrassing discrepancy in their so-called "holy book.

My father would argue two side of a möbius strip.

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The emotional mind takes its beliefs to be absolutely true, and so discounts any evidence to the contrary. That is why it is so hard to reason with someone who is emotionally upset: no matter the soundness of your argument from a logical point of view, it carries no weight if it is out of keeping with the emotional conviction of the moment.

This was, for me, the crucial lesson of middle school and one for the rest of life: that one can protest, fight, and win against injustice, but that those in power will just change the circumstance rather than concede the argument.

We can argue about it for a thousand years, but there's never going to be an argument powerful enough to end the argument, because every argument has a counterargument.

Every couple needs to argue now and then just to prove that the relationship is strong enough to survive.

The angriest person in a controversy is the one most liable to be in the wrong.

A book is like a quarrel. One word leads to another, and may erupt in blood or print, irrevocably.

Knowledge is power, not mere argument or ornament; it is not an opinion to be held... but a work to be done; and I... am laboring to lay the foundation not of any sect or doctrine, but of utility and power.

When you have the facts on your side, argue the facts. When you have the law on your side, argue the law. When you have neither, holler - Trial Lawyer's canard

Greville swore all the time in private, arguing that we owed it to the English language to exploit the full range of forceful expressions it offered.

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.

She's right, Kate's right, I'm right and you're wrong. If you drive her away from here it will be over my dead— chair, has it never occurred to you at on one occasion you might be consummately wrong?

There is only one thing a philosopher can be relied upon to do, and that is to contradict other philosophers.

argued that this was indeed Hitler's position. Strasser

Termagant!" he moaned after her. "Shrew! Harridan! All right, all right, you win, you, you . . . uh . . . virago, you spitfire . . ." He rubbed his head and sat up, grinned sheepishly. Lin made an obscene gesture at him without turning around.