Quotes About Argument

Answer them critics with silence and indifference. It works better, I assure you, than anger and argument. . . .

Strong and bitter words indicate a weak cause.

There's always that argument to make - that you're in better company historically if people don't understand what you're doing.

Sophistry is the fallacy of argument.

Rudeness is better than any argument; it totally eclipses intellect.

When a false argument puts on the appearance of a true one, then it is properly called a sophism or fallacy.

The Argument from Intimidation is a confession of intellectual impotence.

Extrapolations are the last refuge of a groundless argument.

If you admit that to silence your opponent by force is to win an intellectual argument, then you admit the right to silence people by force.

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

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

Argument is to me the air I breathe. Given any proposition, I cannot help believing the other side and defending it.

A day without an argument is like an egg without salt.

The written argument endures. The oral argument is fleeting.

Single women have a dreadful propensity for being poor. Which is one very strong argument in favor of matrimony.

What was tortuously secured by complex argument becomes widely shared intuition, so obvious that we forget its provenance. We don't see it, because we see with it.

All argument is against it; but all belief is for it.

Silence is an argument in favor of the status quo. A refusal to address an inequity is a strategy for maintaining that inequity.

A little experience is worth much argument; a few facts are better than any theory.

Ridicule is the first and last argument of a fool.

To the seeker after pearls, silence is a speaking argument, for no breath comes forth from the diver of the sea.

I followed his argument with the blank uneasiness which one might feel in the presence of a logical lunatic.

What no one shows the ability to defend is quickly abandoned. Rational argument does not create belief, but it maintains a climate in which belief may flourish.

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form.