Quotes About Argument

One barrier... is the impoverishment of classroom language, the failure to cultivate a common vocabulary about inquiry, explanation, argument and problem solving.

I'd rather lose an argument than get into a long discussion in order to win it.

I find you want me to furnish you with argument and intellects too. No, sir, these, I protest you, are too hard for me.

When an arguer argues dispassionately he thinks only of the argument.

I don't want to get into an argument at the bar with some old racist homophobic person.

I tell my boys not to play rough with their younger sister. I try to teach them what I know already: You're never going to win an argument with a girl, so just let her have what she wants!

Reasonable argument is impossible when authority becomes the arbiter.

...part of the mind's job was to cast doubt on what the heart knew to be true, and the heart, because it had no words, often lost the argument

You are the strongest argument, yet, against cloning.

By ethical argument and moral principle the greatest crimes are eventually shown to have been necessary, and, in fact, a signal benefit to mankind.

The underlying intellectual argument for seeking to tax economic rents retains its force.

Nobody gets killed when they're happy. It always starts with an argument, or a debt.

Disagreements between incompatible beliefs cannot be settled by reasoned argument because reasoned argument is drummed out of those trained in religion from the cradle.

Epithets are not arguments. Abuse does not persuade.

I read here and there in books, enjoying the examples and ignoring the argument.

If you have a very commanding argument that you cannot refute, not to accept the argument is to act irrationally.

Fighting with the media almost always is a mistake. You can't win the argument, the media has the last word, and most times your argument is not justified.

One can never win an argument with ignorance.

My wife and I had an argument last week that was so stupid, that it bears repeating. My wife collects twist ties...welcome to my world.

When we think about global warming at all, the arguments tend to be ideological, theological and economic.

Mistakes are made on two counts: an argument is either based on error or incorrectly developed.

A witty illustration or an apt story will accomplish more than columns of argument.

The great charm in argument is really finding one's own opinions, not other people's.

Without argument the species would parish.