Quotes About Argument

Because learning takes practice, we are more likely to get things right at small stakes than at large stakes. This means critics have to decide which argument they want to apply. If learning is crucial, then as the stakes go up, decision-making quality is likely to go down.

Men are worthless; they always think the issue is what's at issue.

Einstein was arguing against quantum theory just as irrationally as his opponents had argued against relativity theory. Einstein remained adamant (he remained adamant to the end of his life where quantum theory was concerned).

it is possible to argue that some people are violent and mentally ill, but it is no longer defensible to argue that people are violent because they are mentally ill.

The good, the true, and the beautiful are always their own best argument for themselves—by themselves—and in themselves.

Coffin studied him for a long beat, then said, "Shit, Lincoln. I just lost an argument, didn't I." "I believe you did, yes." "And now you're all proud of yourself.

They argued about the weather, sports, sex, war, race, politics, and religion; neither of them knew the subjects they debated, but it seemed that the less they knew the better the could argue.

I had a conception of life that no experience would ever erase, a predilection for what was real that no argument could ever gainsay, a sense of the world that was mine and mine alone, a notion as to what life meant that no education could ever alter, a conviction that the meaning of living came only when one was struggling to wring a meaning out of meaningless suffering.

Nothing like watching your relatives fight, I always say.

She blinked. Hmm? Oh, don't care. What did Anubis look like to you? What did... he looked like a guy. So? A good-looking guy, or a slobbering dog-headed guy? I guess... Not the dog-headed guy. I knew it! Sadie pointed at me as if she'd won an argument. Good-looking. I knew it! And with a ridiculous grin, she spun around and skipped into the house. My sister, as I may have mentioned, is a little strange.

Jason muttered And I saw something...Really terrible. That was Hera, Thalia grumbled, Her Majesty, the Loose Cannon. That's it, Thalia Grace, Said the goddess. I will turn you into and aardvark, so help me- Stop it, you two, Piper said. Amazingly, they both shut up.

Piper bit her lip. The last thing she wanted to do was check Katopris for more terrifying images. 'I've tried,'she said.'The dagger doesn't always show what I want to see. In fact,it hardly ever does' 'Please,'Percy said.'Try again.' He pleaded with those sea-green eyes, like a cute baby seal that needed help.Piper wondered how Annabeth ever won an argument with this guy. 'Fine,'she sighed,and drew her dagger

Should I get you a shovel, so you can dig that hole deeper?

Blitzen and Hearthstone collapsed at the bow. They started arguing with each other about which of them had taken the stupider risks, but they were so tired the debate deteriorated into a half-hearted poking contest, like a couple of second-graders.

It was a relief to everyone, especially his wife, when, three years after he retired, he dropped dead of a heart attack in the middle of an argument with a neighbor who had parked his car in front of their house.

watched in horror until Walter Cronkite finally announced the news that Kennedy was dead. The boys didn't try to argue about the stupidity of the ancient Hebrews again.

Abusive?" Jackson screwed up his face. "I ain't never abused a woman a day in my life." "Pòp, you just socked Desiree in the face a few weeks ago." "Aww shit. I forgot all about that. She was talking shit about your mother. What did you expect?

our objective at trial is not the ultimate truth but an opinion in our favour.

It is unwise to judge an argument by its least articulate proponents.

We don't have time to argue," Daniel said. "I'll be fine--" "But we won't," Sam said. "We need you to get us out of here. It has to be someone else." "And you're volunteering, right?" Corey said. Sam opened her mouth, but nothing came out. "Thought so." Corey turned to us. "I'll go. Play the hero for a change." A forced smile. "I hear chicks really go for that kind of thing.

It's another trap." Corey looked at me. "It…sounds like it," I said. "But if it's a good trap, then they really did let Hayley go. She's out here as bait." "So you think you can outsmart them and rescue her?" Sam said. "No, the smart thing to do is keep going." We argued about that, of course.

My fate is in the hands of two monarchs, Walter thought, the tsar and the emperor. One is foolish, the other geriatric; yet they control the destiny of Maud and me and countless millions more Europeans. What an argument against monarchy!

He decided to raise the stakes. "I agree with much of what Brother Hildred says," he began. In an argument it was always wise to show respect for your opponent: people disliked antipathy.

I knew even before we got it rolling that this here was the type asshole that subscribed to magazines like the Nation and Atlantic and probably even read them, and that I didn't stand a snowball's chance against him in an argument; but I was too oiled too keep my mouth shut.