Quotes About Argument

I don't really have those kinds of intentions when I write a scene. I try to follow the internal logic of the fiction, rather than make an argument or an assertion.

There is always a certain meanness in the argument of conservatism, joined with a certain superiority in its fact.

We don't have ways of resolving the arguments in idea meritocratic way.

In order to refute a conclusion, you have to put forth the best possible argument for it.

The quarrel is a very pretty quarrel as it stands - we should only spoil it by trying to explain it.

He that is not open to conviction is not qualified for discussion.

For thousands of years people have been trying to force other people to think their way. Did they succeed? No. Will they succeed? No. Why? Because brute force is not an argument.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

If the reason I give is a good one, you will act upon it. If it is a bad one I cannot make it better by piling epithet upon epithet. There is no logic in abuse; there is no argument in an epithet.

They say cowardice is infectious; but then argument is, on the other hand, a great emboldener.

Just consider how terrible the day of your death will beOthers will go on speaking and you will not be able to argue back

A tightly woven argument is impermeable to the frigid winds of criticism.

Wise men argue causes and fools decide them.

Never argue at the dinner table, for the one who is not hungry always gets the best of the argument.

Silence isn't always agreement. Sometimes people no longer argue because they no longer care.

Evidence will terminate any short or long era of an argument.

Every discussion with a girl is an argument, and when you think you are right suddenly you realize that your trapped.

Never argue. To win an argument is to lose a sale.

What are they fighting about?" Saba listened for a moment and closed her eyed in frustration. "They're arguing scripture." "Your brother is arguing scripture? With an angel?

Anger is never without an argument, but seldom with a good one.

[M]ere knowledge of the truth will not give you the art of persuasion.

A living museum must surely see itself as a locus of argument. A breathing art institution is not a lockup but a moveable feast.

The only really effective apologia for Christianity comes down to two arguments, namely, the saints the Church has produced, and the art which has grown in her womb.

We atheists can argue that, with the modern revolution in attitudes toward homosexuals, we have become the only group that may not reveal itself in normal social discourse.