Quotes About Argument

Nothing so sharpens the thought process as writing down one's arguments. Weaknesses overlooked in oral discussion become painfully obvious on the written page.

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

Academics don't normally manage to alter people's way of thinking through their strength of argument.

Words are so often used in the opposite sense, as a screen of diversion. It's the struggle towards truthfulness which is the same whether one is writing a poem, a novel or an argument.

If I know your sect, I anticipate your argument

Growth chestnuts have to be placed on the unyielding anvil of biophysical realities and then crushed with the hammer of moral argument.

...the argument from absence of transitional types boils down to the striking fact that such types are always lacking unless they have been found.

A master salesman is one who takes the offensive and never the defensive sale of an argument, if argument arises.

My pappy told me never to bet my bladder against a brewery or get into an argument with people who buy ink by the barrel.

The king to Oxford sent a troop of horse, For Tories own no argument but force; With equal care, to Cambridge books he sent, For Whigs allow no force but argument.

There are clear cases in which "understanding" literally applies and clear cases in which it does not apply; and these two sorts of cases are all I need for this argument.

Who over-refines his argument brings himself to grief

Unfortunately, the problem of the free speech argument is that you have to defend people you can't stand.

I just remember that whenever I got really mad or passionate, like in an argument, people would laugh, and I'd be dead serious. It would happen a lot. So it was like, Gee, I've got something here.

You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.

There are some people as obtuse in recognizing an argument as they are in appreciating wit. You couldn't drive it into their heads with a hammer.

Obama's major accomplishment is himself. This can be an effective argument to make to undecided voters and something Obama has to artfully address.

In arguing one should meet serious pleading with humor, and humor with serious pleading.

The conservative argument is that the economy is like the weather, that it just operates automatically.

Our argument is not flatly circular, but something like it. It has the form, figuratively speaking, of a closed curve in space.

I don't feel that an atmosphere of debate and total disagreement and argument is such a bad thing. It makes for a vital and alive field.

Almost invariably, whoever doesn't win the argument is going to be unhappy.

Sometimes we deny being worthy of praise, hoping to generate an argument we would be pleased to lose.

If you want a good argument against democracy, spend five minutes with a voter.