Quotes About Argument

In a family argument, if it turns out you are right, apologize at once.

How could an argument soothe or settle a controversy when every word is a nest for a bird of doubt? (meaning of words as inferences)

Bigot: A person who wins an argument with a liberal.

On what does the Christian argument for Immortality really rest? It stands upon the pedestal on which the theologian rests the whole of historical Christianity-the Resurrection of Jesus Christ.

People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

The laissez-faire argument relies on the same tacit appeal to perfection as does communism.

Offense is what people take when they can't take argument.

One of the best ways of keeping your temper in an argument, as most of us know only too well, is not to listen to anything the other person has to say.

It is an easy thing to call names; any fool is equal to that ... and the weapon of vituperation is generally used by those who lack brains for argument or are upon the wrong side.

Behind every argument is someone's ignorance.

After an argument, silence may mean acceptance or the continuation of resistance by other means.

Infidelity is seated in the heart; its origin is not in the head. It is the wish that Christianity might not be true, that leads to an argument to prove it.

I was born to argue... I don't know why. I mean, from arguing with my teachers and, on occasions, my parents. I think I've mastered the art of argument at a fairly young age.

Sir, I have found you an argument; but I am not obliged to find you an understanding.

There is nothing like instances to grow hair on a bald-headed argument.

Neither irony nor sarcasm is argument.

Any argument where one supposes an arbitrary choice to be made an uncountably infinite number of times ...[is] outside the domain of mathematics.

Unlike every other nation in the world, the United States defines itself as a hypothesis and constitutes itself as an argument.

Where they couldn't pick holes in our arguments they would drive horses and carriages through my character.

Rhetoric is nothing but reason well dressed and argument put in order.

I do see that there is an argument against suicide: the grief of the worshipers left behind, the awful famine in their hearts, these are too costly terms for the release.

Neither irony or sarcasm is argument.

What I like about music is its ability to be convincing, to carry an argument through successfully to the finish, though the terms of the argument remain unknown quantities.

You never need an argument against the use of violence, you need an argument for it.