Quotes About Argument

He thinks that you are a neologian, and he is going to have you up before the court for this.

Isn't there still one other possibility ... ," I said, "our persuading you that you must let us go?

For the uneducated, when they engage in argument about anything, give no thought to the truth about the subject of discussion but are only eager that those present will accept the position they have set forth. I differ from them only to this extent: I shall not be eager to get the agreement of those present that what I say is true, except incidentally, but I shall be very eager that I should myself be thoroughly convinced that things are so.

for the uneducated, when they engage in argument about anything, give no thought to the truth about the subject of discussion but are only eager that those present will accept the position they have set forth.

The argument of the Republic is the search after Justice

And now, Athenians, I am not going to argue for my own sake, as you may think, but for yours, that you may not sin against the God by condemning me, who am his gift to you.

Because you seem not to be aware that any one who has an intellectual affinity to Socrates and enters into conversation with him is liable to be drawn into an argument; and whatever subject he may start, he will be continually carried round and round by him, until at last he finds that he has to give an account both of his present and past life; and when he is once entangled, Socrates will not let him go until he has completely and thoroughly sifted him.

Sorweel: "Then how can we hope to resist him?" Harweel: "With our swords and our shields. And when those fail us, with spit and curses." But the spit and the curses, Sorweel would learn, always came first, accompanied by bold gestures and grand demonstrations. War was an extension of argument, and swords were simply words honed to a blood-letting edge. Only the Sranc began with blood. For Men, it was always the conclusion.

Intelligent people, Achamian had found, were typically less happy. The reason for this was simple: they were better able to rationalize their delusions. The ability to stomach Truth had little to do with intelligence—nothing, in fact. The intellect was far better at arguing away truths than at finding them.

War was an extension of argument, and swords were simply words honed to a bloodletting edge.

You're dead, I repeated. So why are you in my dream? He raised the bill of his olive drab ball cap with one finger. Good question. Morbid, isn't it? What? Dreaming about dead peolpe. Creepy. You ever see a therapist about that? I'm not - Even in dreams, I couldn't win an argument. Even when he was dead.

Must we argue word choice? Now?

Nolly Wolfstan, private detective, had the teeth of a god and a face so unfortunate that it argued convincingly against the existence of a benign deity.

To Carson, Hayden Eckman said, "The AG called me himself, a few hours ago. He made a persuasive argument.

You and people like you must have developed these places. You must believe you can come and go from them as anonymous as ghosts." He wanted to argue, persuade, litigate, but no jury waited to be convinced, no judge to rule in his favor. There was just Jane, who had no courtroom role. She was only, possibly, his executioner.

If either of them stops shouting long enough to hear the other, they'll be hurting each other's feelings.

No," I agreed dryly. "I don't suppose he'd have been pleased, no matter what you said." "He wasn't. He backhanded me across the mouth, to shut me up.

It took a bit more argument, but at last she consented

He rounded on me, indignant and astonished. "Are you contradicting me?" "Well, yes," I said, rather mildly. "You're wrong.

The essence to me of all good drama is argument.

Fallacious and misleading arguments are most easily detected if set out in correct syllogistic form

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

If you have resolutely fixed your opinion, though it be upon too slight and insufficient grounds, yet you will stand determined to renounce the strongest reason brought for the contrary opinion, and grow obstinate against the force of the clearest argument. Positivo

An unsound thinker goes where his motives and interests invite him; a sound thinker goes where the argument takes him.