Quotes About Argument

But a man with an experience is never at the mercy of a man with only an argument. ... If we can lead people into the manifest presence of God, all false theological houses of cards will tumble down.

An experience teaches only the good observer; but far from seeking a lesson in it, everyone looks for an argument in experience, and everyone interprets the conclusion in his own way.

To some Christianity is an argument. To many it is a performance. To a few, it is experience.

Those opposed to abortion cannot simply invoke God's will-they have to explain why abortion violates some principle that is accessible to people of all faiths.

Faith is not uprooted by dialectic proof; it must already be deeply shaken by other causes to be unable to withstand the shock of argument.

I would never argue with a bi... over a weak dusty broke a.. ni....

It's a waste of time arguing with a fool because if you do, you will only end up making yourself one too.

At that word, Fates, her eyes flashed. She was a goddess of argument, born from the bright, relentless mind of Zeus. If she was forbidden something, even by the three gray goddesses themselves, she would not simply submit. She would set about parsing the constraint down to its atoms, and try to eke a way through.

Answer a fool according to his folly" (Proverbs 26:4).

The fact of the matter is that nothing is achieved in this world, particularly politically, other than with persistence, and persistence involves repetition and it involves argument and re-argument... The public interest in free speech is not just in truthful speech, in correct speech, in fair speech... The interest is in the debate. You see, every person who has ultimately changed the course of history has started off being unpopular.

the Sierra Club took out full-page advertisements attacking the dams in the Washington Post, the New York Times, the San Francisco Chronicle, and the Los Angeles Times. One of the Bureau's arguments for building the dams, an argument which it would later regret, was that tourists would better appreciate the beauties of the Grand Canyon from motorboats. "Should we also flood the Sistine Chapel," asked one advertisement, "so tourists can get nearer the ceiling?

Now Flowers was arguing the same thing back to him. If Dannon and Carver had killed Tubbs, Lucas wouldn't find out about it except by accident. If justice were to be done, it would have to be extrajudicial.

Kidd didn't bother to argue. He got out of the car—no interior lights, they had custom switches, and the switches were off—and walked around to the driver's side, as Lauren clambered into the passenger seat.

You seem tense," Kahurangi said to them. "Of course I'm tense," Niamh snapped back. "We have a stupid plan." "You're just saying this because it's my plan." "I'm not just saying it because it's your plan, and also, yes.

It's not the trees, you dense argumentative spoon

That accusation is as irrelevant as it is true

She wins all arguments by the use of vehemence and the conviction that a difference of opinion is a personal affront.

I come from an Italian family. One of the greatest and most profound expressions we would ever use in conversations or arguments was a slamming door. The slamming door was our punctuation mark.

At a certain age I just stopped arguing. I realized that there was no way [my father] could see, because for him to approve of what I was doing, he would have to have some belief in me as a musician.

Controversy is only dreaded by the advocates of error.

When the philosopher's argument becomes tedious, complicated, and opaque, it is usually a sign that he is attempting to prove as true to the intellect what is plainly false to common sense.

People generally quarrel because they cannot argue.

Sometimes couples have to argue, not to prove who's right or wrong, but to be reminded that their love is worth fighting for.

He who is in the wrong believes himself in the right, as was the case with Germany, and he who is in the right supports it with arguments which only appear irrefutable to him because they respond to his anger.