Quotes About Argument

Andan las tres todo el santo día riñendo, pero cuando hay que despellejar a una mujer, están que muerden en un confite.

From lightest words sometimes the direst quarrel springs.

When you have no basis for an argument, abuse the plaintiff.

For good ideas and true innovation, you need human interaction, conflict, argument, debate

I always cheer up immensely if an attack is particularly wounding because I think, well, if they attack one personally, it means they have not a single political argument left.

I am using the phrase "the hidden machinery" to refer to two different aspects of novel making: on the one hand how certain elements of the text—characters, plot, imagery—work together to make an overarching argument; on the other how the secret psychic life of the author, and the larger events of his or her time and place, shape that argument. (p. 29)

Rayne, why is it you feel the need to argue with every single thing I say?" "Because every single thing you say is usually stupid and ridiculous.

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

Democracy feeds on argument, on the discussion as to the right way forward. This is the reason why respecting the opinion of others belongs to democracy.

A false argument should be refuted, not named. That's the basic idea behind freedom of speech. Arguments by name-calling, rather than truth and light, can generally be presumed fraudulent.

Friendship with the ignorant is as foolish as arguing with a drunkard.

EXPOSTULATION, n. One of the many methods by which fools prefer to lose their friends.

To argue with a person who has renounced the use of reason is like administering medicine to the dead.

...and the funny thing was that people who weren't entirely certain they were right always argued much louder than other people, as if the main person they were trying to convince were themselves.

Nothing sucks more than that moment during an argument when you realize you're wrong.

Apparently being right frustrates people who are wrong.

Realizing you're wrong in the middle of an argument but fighting anyway...all in the name of pride.

Never argue with idiots. Because First they bring you to their level and then they beat you with their experience.

Nothing is as frustrating as arguing with someone who knows what he's talking about.

Put simply, the cosmological argument claims that since the physical world had to come into existence somehow, there must be a First Cause, namely, a creator God.

I am a trial lawyer. ... Matilda says that at dinner on a good day I sound like an affidavit.

At the time I thought the winner in an argument was the person who put forward the most logical support for his position. Of course, this isn't true. Human history, from gardening disputes to genocide, is full of examples of people with the most decent, well-argued stance ending up with their face in the mud in front of a naked display of power.

R. F. Kahn asked, "If I went out tomorrow and bought a new overcoat, that would increase unemployment?" "Yes," said Hayek, "but … it would take a very long mathematical argument to explain why.

As we get deeper into Python classes, though, keep in mind that the OOP model in Python is very simple; as we've seen here, it's really just about looking up attributes in object trees and a special function argument.