Quotes About Argument

A long dispute means both parties are wrong.

It takes in reality only one to make a quarrel. It is useless for the sheep to pass resolutions in favour of vegetarianism while the wolf remains of a different opinion

savage. Illiterate, unschooled in the Classics, but she and I have argued endlessly, night on end, about the nature of God, and why the universe was created the way it was. She stunned me the other day, proposed that nothing could have existed until God split into two to create duality. Only when the Godhead had broken into male and female could it begin to define itself. It has interesting possibilities, since only in duality can identity be measured against something else.

There are two sorts of people with whom you can never win an argument: those who base their belief on absolute faith, and those who know something by experience.

Never Get Into An Argument With A Customer. If You Win The Argument You Will Almost Invariably Lose The Sale. And I Don't Like Your Chances For A Sale If You Lose The Argument Either.

When you are faced with prejudice, logic and justice are impotent. Still, we may have an obligation to argue directly into the face of the prejudice, even though there is no chance to win.

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.

You raise your voice when you should reinforce your argument.

Whenever two good people argue over principles, they are both right.

Anybody who thinks talk is cheap has never argued with a traffic cop.

Rittner's Computer Law: Never argue with people who write with digital ink and pay by the kilowatt-hour.

No argument, no matter how convincing, will give courage to a coward

If I had nothing to say to Henry right off it was because following Lippman's seminar, language didn't really seem my domain any longer. I wasn't exactly a stranger to disputation, but never in my life had I felt so enclosed by a world so contentious, where the argument is enormous and constant and everything turns out to be pro or con, positions taken, positions argued, and everything italicized by indignation and rage.

Argue with anything else, but don't argue with your own nature.

Stay out of this, dodo!" she snapped. "What do you know about it?" Dor spread his hands. How did he get into arguments he was trying to avoid? "Nothing. I can't grow a thing." "You will when you're a man," Grundy muttered.

The comprehensive mind is always dialectical.

But I don't think we shall quarrel about a word - the subject of our inquiry is too important for that.

For, it could be doubted that the things said are possible; and, even if, in the best possible conditions, they could come into being, that they would be what is best will also be doubted. So that is why there's a certain hestitation about getting involved in it, for fear that the argument might seem to be a prayer, my dear comrade.

Arguments, like men, are often pretenders.

If a person does not attend to the meaning of terms as they are commonly used in argument, he may be involved even in greater paradoxes

wherever the argument, like a wind, tends, thither must we go.

A rhetorician is capable of speaking effectively against all comers, whatever the issue, and can consequently be more persuasive in front of crowds about… anything he likes.

Then, when the rhetorician is more persuasive than the physician, the ignorant is more persuasive with the ignorant than he who has knowledge?—is not that the inference?

The clearest argument against Plato's authorship is probably that Plato never wrote a work whose interpretation was as simple and straightforward as that of Alcibiades.